You Can't See Me by ralph49

Photography • Insects • posted on Sep 27, 2008

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Female Garden Orb-weaver Spider. Well I wasn't going to upload this image cause I thought I could do better. Went back out this morning to grab another capture but something (probably a hungry bird) had taken her, web and all. Oh well..... Species: Eriophora transmarina (QM) Habitat: In a typical orb-shaped web between branches of shrubs; the spider will usually be found in the web in the evening but hiding in a retreat near the top of the web during the daylight hours; the legs are normally extended at night since the spider is feeding but retracted against the body by day in the fashion typical of Eriophora species

Comments (29)

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tetsu-pino

11:09PM | Sat, 27 September 2008

Excellent macro!!

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skyla824

11:25PM | Sat, 27 September 2008

excellent macro work...

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MagikUnicorn

12:31AM | Sun, 28 September 2008

lol Great Defense pose Capture

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beachzz

12:51AM | Sun, 28 September 2008

EEEWWWWW---I am SO glad I didn't stumble upon this---you would have heard me from a LONG way off!! I thought it was a tarantula!!

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drace68

12:53AM | Sun, 28 September 2008

Great camouflage. One hairy, ugly critter. Excellent job to spy her out and get this image.

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kimariehere

1:10AM | Sun, 28 September 2008

yes he sure is camouflaged fabulous find and capture!!!

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flora-crassella

1:32AM | Sun, 28 September 2008

wonderful and interesting photo!

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Alz2008

5:03AM | Sun, 28 September 2008

Wonderful capture well camoflauged, Excellent well done..

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fredster66

5:15AM | Sun, 28 September 2008

Pretty amazing!

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Richardphotos

8:04AM | Sun, 28 September 2008

some eat their web and rebuild each day at least some here does.I suppose they do not want any other spiders to move in. I have seen other spiders make their webs right next to one and also very small spiders will go out on the web to get almost microscopic bugs nothing wrong with this as it is an excellent macro