Michael J.
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There is something amazing about this photo. Great capture
Post your spiders
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There is something amazing about this photo. Great capture
Just-Clayton
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Scott Murray
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Unknown spider on cactus.
Just-Clayton
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I found this jumping spider in our garden this morning and grabbed it. I put it into a jar and placed it in the refrigerator for about a half hour to slow it down and then photographed it in my light tent with the 55mm f/2.8 Micro Nikkor and PK-13. It was maybe an inch long ± with its legs. After the photoshoot, the model was released into the wild of our garden. And yes, I did get a signed model release!
I found out that I can actually order a live Camel Spider online. These things were all over the place in Iraq. They are the DEVIL! I watched one chase down and kill a mouse (they lack venom so they just clamp down on their throat and suffocate their prey) and eat it. I let it finish its meal before I stomped it into a pile of goo.
I found out that I can actually order a live Camel Spider online. These things were all over the place in Iraq. They are the DEVIL! I watched one chase down and kill a mouse (they lack venom so they just clamp down on their throat and suffocate their prey) and eat it. I let it finish its meal before I stomped it into a pile of goo.
Spiders absolutely fascinate me. They are so diverse and can have such amazing colors!
So many people are creeped out by them. I don't know why, maybe it is all the legs. Although they have 4 pairs of legs, the pedipalps on most look like another set of legs so it looks like they have 5 pairs. I love to watch them move about with one exception; the Brown Recluse. With all my years in the Infantry, sleeping on the ground, that was the only thing I feared because their bites could inflict a very serious wound. Whenever I saw one, which was not all that often, I used to stomp them into a pile of goo.
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I'd watch out for the black widow too. They aren't any fun to be bite by either! In Oregon we had plenty of them to be causous of! And though they fascinate me too, I'm scared of spiders and wouldn't handle any of them, dangerous or not! Gives me the willies just thinking about it! Lol 
I agree they have all sorts of amazing markings and colours and in my part of the world (Northern Europe) we are lucky enough to be without the nasty spiders that you guys have. Just googled the Brown Recluse and i wouldn't like to share my sleeping bag with this one either to be honest.
I'd watch out for the black widow too. They aren't any fun to be bite by either! In Oregon we had plenty of them to be causous of! And though they fascinate me too, I'm scared of spiders and wouldn't handle any of them, dangerous or not! Gives me the willies just thinking about it! Lol
I have been bitten by a black widow, it was some pretty intensive pain for about 6 hours. We had a rosy red tarantula for a number of years. She had some pretty fierce fangs but never once bit me, the only ones who need worry were the crickets we fed her each week. I used to handle her all the time.
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The Recluse's venom is hemotoxic and can cause some pretty serious necrosis at the site of the bite. When I was in Army Basic Training one of my friends was bitten by one when he was going to the bathroom. It took two surgeries to reconstruct the area on his calf.
