Anyone like spiders?- here's a few

Lord Vetinari

Spiderling ball of the babies of the common orb web spider Araneus diadematus. The ball is about 2.5cms dia.

Brian V.

tlee

Cool and gross at the same time! Makes me itch all over! Very interesting to see. I've never seen one before.

wxwax

The second one is just beautiful.

Skippy

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Spiderling ball of the babies of the common orb web spider Araneus diadematus. The ball is about 2.5cms dia.

Brian V.

Wow Brian they are colourful little tackers aren't they
Like some sort of candy blob on a web.

Your going to have heaps to photograph as they grow aren't you.

That's an amazing shot, I've never seen a ball of spiders before.
Nice work as per usual Brian .... Skippy
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ShepsMom

Oh My!!!! More bugs for you to shoot! What a neat picture, now you've to go watch them grow 3x!!

ChrisJ

Wow! :jawdrop

RogersDA

Brian, these are two very awesome images.

Tessa HD

awesome!
As long as they're not on me and I see them first, I am fascinated by bugs. Great capture!

Tessa

ultravox

Wow
Nature at the best.

Dalantech

Well done Brian!!

Lord Vetinari

Thanks for the kind comments everyone
Not sure what the survival rate of these is but suspect it's pretty low. Found another 3 spider balls today
Brian V.

BigAl

Nice shots of a cool find Brian!

Reminds me of the Rain Spider nest I found at the end of 2005. Haven't seen a single Rain Spider this year (nor any bigger wolfies come to think of it). Must be the drought :cry

Lord Vetinari

BigAl wrote:

Nice shots of a cool find Brian!

Reminds me of the Rain Spider nest I found at the end of 2005. Haven't seen a single Rain Spider this year (nor any bigger wolfies come to think of it). Must be the drought :cry

Thanks Al,
I love watching the behaviour of these- it's almost like a super-organism.
Brian V.

Awais Yaqub

very nice

Shasoc

Wow. These are amazing!

Lord Vetinari

Thanks for looking and commenting Awais and Socrate
Brian V.