Small Spider and the Assassin

Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
edited July 3, 2008 in Holy Macro
Hello i was out to shoot some wild flowers in front of my house. When i was shooting i noticed a small white spider hardly visible on white flower. When i turned to him he hide himself and i only could see it's leg
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Then i came back and shot this one while he was enjoying polan

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And when i returned back to see how he is doing i found he was killed by this spider

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They were about 5 or 7 mm in size. Shot with Sony H5 with reverse 50mm. Slight cropping. Used joby gorrila pod for stability.
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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited July 3, 2008
    LOvely captures Awais.
    #1&2 are a flower crab spider (normally ambush visiting flies/bees)
    #3 is a lynx spider
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  • couriermancourierman Registered Users Posts: 402 Major grins
    edited July 3, 2008
    nice set AY :D
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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited July 3, 2008
    Lord Vetinari wrote:
    LOvely captures Awais.
    #1&2 are a flower crab spider (normally ambush visiting flies/bees)
    #3 is a lynx spider

    I knew i will get ID without asking :D thanks Brian thumb.gif
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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited July 3, 2008
    courierman wrote:
    nice set AY :D
    Thank you :D
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