Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


October 30, 2015: Sunrise, Lyssomanes and Tetragnatha

This morning was quite eventful - A WeChat video with Fu Ying En in Singapore, - and enough clouds to make a warm red sunrise. Paul and I often share the sunrise bench - and this morning we (mean I) were talking about macro photography and my spiders. I pointed out the many night hunting spiders hid during the day - often under leaves and with twigs. I have a CREE torch that is quite useful for discovering hiding spiders - by shining the light under the leaf - you see the spider's shadow. To demonstrate I used the light on a few grape leaves and sure enough - there was a Tetragnatha hiding under the leaf - see below

oct 30 5765 sunrise colors lake mist

Tetragnatha hiding

oct 30 5772 tetragnatha grape leaf

Female Tetragnatha

oct 30 5778 tetragnatha female

Walk back toward home, I passed a few magnolia trees and I looked for something under the Magnolia leaves and sure enough, there was a Lyssomanes viridis - not as prevelant as in the spring.

oct 30 5788 lyssomanes retina

oct 30 5798 lyssomanes female field

Dew drops on Lantana

oct 30 5804 lantana dew

oct 30 5807 lantana jewels

oct 30 5813 lantana lenses

oct 30 5820 lantana lens

oct 30 5823 lantana lens

Daisy with male crab spider hiding

oct 30 5831 daisy dew hiding spider

oct 30 5831 hiding spider

Leucauge venusta

oct 30 5833 leucauge venusta

Pink flower, Urena lobata, and dew drop lenses

oct 30 5842 pink flower lens

oct 30 5844 pink flower

Stick insect eating

oct 30 5863 stick insect eating

I usually see stick insects mating - maybe 90% of the time. Nice to know they are capable of decoupling and eating from time to time

oct 30 5887 stick insect eating

oct 30 5908 stick insect eating

Walking home - sunlight touched the head of this limpet

oct 30 5918 limpet reflection

oct 30 5941 female lyssomanes

oct 30 5962 female lyssomanes viridis

oct 30 5975 female lyssomanes outside

oct 30 5979 lyssomanes viritis partial retina

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C. Frank Starmer

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