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Equipment & Techniques => Landscape & Nature Photography => Topic started by: DwayneOakes on September 15, 2015, 02:10:34 pm

Title: The Tunnel
Post by: DwayneOakes on September 15, 2015, 02:10:34 pm
Using the Sigma AML-2 close up lens on the Sigma dp2 Merrill.

Dwayne Oakes
Title: Re: The Tunnel
Post by: Bob_B on September 15, 2015, 08:15:34 pm
Very nice photo, Dwayne. A wolf spider, correct? I love those beasties.
Title: Re: The Tunnel
Post by: DwayneOakes on September 16, 2015, 10:12:43 am
Quote from: Bob_B on September 15, 2015, 08:15:34 pm
Very nice photo, Dwayne. A wolf spider, correct? I love those beasties.

Thanks Bob ! Hard to ID at that angle but I think it is a Elegant Crab Spider based
on type of web and size of spider which is about 1/4 inch.

Dwayne Oakes
Title: Re: The Tunnel
Post by: NancyP on September 16, 2015, 12:07:45 pm
Nice photo of spider in its natural setting, in a characteristic pose.
Title: Re: The Tunnel
Post by: syncrasy on September 16, 2015, 12:30:57 pm
I suspect this is a Funnel Weaver (Family Agelenidae), named for their, well, funnel-shaped webs!

See http://bugguide.net/node/view/1974 (http://bugguide.net/node/view/1974).

(Crab spiders do not create such webs; they prowl for prey.)
Title: Re: The Tunnel
Post by: John Koerner on September 16, 2015, 06:16:28 pm
Quote from: syncrasy on September 16, 2015, 12:30:57 pm
I suspect this is a Funnel Weaver (Family Agelenidae), named for their, well, funnel-shaped webs!

See http://bugguide.net/node/view/1974 (http://bugguide.net/node/view/1974).

(Crab spiders do not create such webs; they prowl for prey.)

Correct :D

http://www.thenaturephotographer.club/image_tree.php?tsn=871511
Title: Re: The Tunnel
Post by: DwayneOakes on September 16, 2015, 11:19:31 pm
Oops it is a funnel web spider, thanks for the info guys !

Dwayne Oakes
Title: Re: The Tunnel
Post by: syncrasy on September 17, 2015, 12:02:41 am
Another correction (before one of our Aussie readers chimes in)...

This spider is a "Funnel Weaver" not a "Funnel-web Spider" (for example, the famous deadly Sydney Funnelweb Spider).

From the bugguide page (http://bugguide.net/node/view/1974) referenced above:

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A Potential Confusion:
The family of "funnel weaver" spiders (family: Agelenidae) found in the United States are 99.9% harmless to people. However, there are a few genera of spiders (family: Hexathelidae) that are called "Funnel-web spiders" (Genera: Atrax and Hadronyche). These spiders ARE NOT related to the agelenid spiders found in North America. Many of the hexathelid spiders are common favorites for the Discovery Channel-style "Deadliest Spider" documentaries; some of the famous "funnel-web spiders" being the Sydney Funnelweb (Atrax robustus) and the Northern Tree Funnelweb (Hadronyche formidabilis). These funnel-web spiders are found in eastern Australia, including Tasmania, in coastal and highland forest regions - as far west as the Gulf Ranges area of South Australia. These spiders are known to be harmful to people, HOWEVER, as mentioned above, they are not found in the United States.
Title: Re: The Tunnel
Post by: mseawell on September 19, 2015, 01:07:54 am
Great shot! Spiders are beautiful...in their own way! ;)

Mark