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p.1 #1 · Wasp spider


I've been absent recently due to a late summer trip abroad and accumulating work, but I got to shoot a bit this past week on the hill above the house. I found a nice wasp spider building her nest along the trail. The wasp spider (Argiope bruennichi, Jp. naga-kogane-gumo) is an orb weaver, but quite a bit more unusual than the golder orb weavers around here, which are everywhere. The zig-zag "stabilimentum" in the web center is a characteristic. Body length was about 25mm long.

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/Peregrinor/macrophotography/PA035222aw1.jpg




Oct 03, 2008 at 03:33 AM
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p.1 #2 · Wasp spider


Nice spider!. Nice shot too


Oct 03, 2008 at 03:40 AM
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p.1 #3 · Wasp spider


Lovely shot

Adrian



Oct 03, 2008 at 04:04 AM
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p.1 #4 · Wasp spider


Wonderful Argiope spider shot Lovely markings and those crazy web designs as well

Brian V.



Oct 03, 2008 at 04:11 AM
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p.1 #5 · Wasp spider


very cool shot. I have a similar spider in my back yard with an almost identical web design. Nice bokeh in the bg.


Oct 03, 2008 at 07:10 AM
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p.1 #6 · Wasp spider


Hey, Norman!! Long time, no see. Welcome back. Argiope aurantia is probably my favorite spider to shoot. When they build a home, if the hunting is good, they stick around for a while. You've done your usual great job of capturing it. Good to have you back.

Kenny



Oct 03, 2008 at 08:54 AM
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p.1 #7 · Wasp spider


Matuka, Adrian, Brian, Tim, thanks to you all, and sorry for being in and out. I've just got so much work these days it's hard to get back here as much as I'd like. I have managed to go back to the web a few times since the shot I posted above, and I've gotten a few better shots (focuswise), but she's moved her web higher, making the distance a bit farther away, so hard to get in close. Based on my printing, this one seems to be the best focused:
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c197/Peregrinor/macrophotography/PA045376aw1.jpg
FWIW, this was taken with the Olympus Zuiko 50-200mm lens + EX-25 extension tube, 158mm, 1/8s @ f8

Kenny, thanks! Here in Japan I haven't seen that many Argiopes around; they're a member of the general class of orb weavers, but we have many more "golden orb weavers" (genus Nephila) here--they're very large and flashy spiders, but they're just so common that they don't appeal much to me anymore. My book of Japanese spiders doesn't list the Argiope aurantia (yellow garden orb weaver), so it's apparently not present here in Japan; the brown/black streak down the back seems different to the wasp spiders, which have transverse stripes.



Oct 05, 2008 at 09:13 AM
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p.1 #8 · Wasp spider


beautiful light!! great shot.


Oct 05, 2008 at 09:39 AM
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p.1 #9 · Wasp spider


Thanks MichAg92.

OT: Another reason i've been so off site recently is the US presidential election; I've been spending too much time on political blogs and newssites reading and making comments. Another month and that, too, will pass



Oct 06, 2008 at 02:13 PM
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p.1 #10 · Wasp spider


Great shots, do like these spiders
phil



Oct 06, 2008 at 02:15 PM
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p.1 #11 · Wasp spider


Thank you, Phil! Totally off-topic, but have you ever read novels by John Fowles? Your onscreen name reminds me of the name of one of his characters.



Oct 07, 2008 at 06:39 AM
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p.1 #12 · Wasp spider


Excellent shot - this is closely related to our St Andrew's cross spider which is argiope keyserlingii


Oct 07, 2008 at 08:39 AM
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p.1 #13 · Wasp spider


Beautiful images


Oct 08, 2008 at 12:46 AM





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