I agree with Eric, very nicely done.
Rich
Thank you.
___________
Wonderful work! I really like the second photo of the Golden Silk Spider.
Thank you. Yes, the robust and more-colorful females display better than the skinnier males. (The male is also about 1/5th as large, even though they look the same size in the images.)
___________
Hi John, as others have said these are great shots and I fully agree even though they give me the heebie jeebies! I suppose I could just look it up but how large are these things?
Again, great captures!!
Kevin in CT
Thank you.
A lot of people have "spider fear" instilled (or born) into them, but they're really harmless in all but the very rarest of occasions.
The sizes of these vary significantly.
The female Golden Silk Spider is the largest and can almost cover a man's whole hand ... and can catch hummingbirds and bats in its web ... while the Filmy Dome Spider can run laps around your pinky
fingernail In the middle, a full-grown Green Lynx can span the length of your thumb, as can the Silver Argiope, and I have taken images of the the former feeding on half-grown lizards (anoles).
100% true. I especially like the colours of 1, 2, 5 and 9. But all of them are great shots.
Thank you; those are among my favorites as well.
Jack