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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:
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.
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