Nursery Web Spider protecting her young

Posted by Cynthia Crawford on Mon Jul 31, 2017 7:55 pm

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I guess these are common spiders here, but I've never seen one on her "nursery". I noticed some iris leaves all folded over, found a whole web full of baby spiders, and when I moved them gently, mama spider came running to protect her young. So thrilled to see this. You can just see a few of the young spiders in the background.

It was getting dark and I had to practically do a headstand to see this!

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Canon G7 MarkII, 1/800 ISO 6400, f/2.2 hand held

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by Tom Whelan on Mon Jul 31, 2017 8:34 pm

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Lovely picture of the attentive mother - pretty pattern on the abdomen.

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by Sandy R-B on Tue Aug 01, 2017 2:09 am

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Nice sharp image of a colourful and interesting spider.
The greens and bits of web add a lot.
There seems to be a lot of noise - a couple rounds of NR on everything but the spider would help.
Nice catch!
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by Carol Clarke on Tue Aug 01, 2017 4:32 am

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Good composition and interesting background story! Well spotted and captured Cindy.

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by Cynthia Crawford on Tue Aug 01, 2017 10:12 am

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Sandy R wrote:Nice sharp image of a colourful and interesting spider.
The greens and bits of web add a lot.
There seems to be a lot of noise - a couple rounds of NR on everything but the spider would help.
Nice catch!
Sandy

Thanks Sandy. Yes-I did some NR. Not sure how much more I can do without losing detail. Not the ideal camera or circumstances, but I like the story.

. Sometimes that's more important to me than a perfect picture.

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by Ron Day on Thu Aug 24, 2017 11:06 pm