I was walking back to my car after a long macro session in a riverside meadow.
I glanced downwards at a teasel seedhead which seemed to have a rather faded Araneus spider on it. I nearly dismissed it and walked onwards but I checked it.
The "spider" was a pentatomid bug of an unfamiliar species. I took a series of frames, many requiring several attempts due to gusts of wind moving the teasel.
It was not until I processed the images that I saw some degree of entanglement of the bug's feet in an untidy and minimal spider's web. That might explain its immobility.
It is called the "hairy" shield-bug because of the long (for a bug) fine hairs, most visible on the thorax. The pale banding pattern on the antennae is another recognition character. It is supposed to be common and widespread.
EM-1 (in manual mode), Printing Nikkor 105mm on extension for about 1:1, twin TTL flash, hand-held.
