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Unknown Tiny Spider
Nov 26, 2020 16:51:52 #
This is a very tiny male spider which is identified by its pedipalps that it uses to transfer its sperm to the female during mating. I don't know what species it is so if anyone can identify it, please let me know so that I can label it correctly.
Nov 26, 2020 17:24:36 #
Nov 26, 2020 17:48:15 #
kpmac wrote:
No idea of the ID but it's another fine stack, sippy.
Thanks, Kpmac. Wishing you and yours a blessed holiday.
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Nov 26, 2020 19:53:11 #
Nov 26, 2020 20:05:27 #
tinusbum wrote:
nice stack,ugly face
Strange that you should say that, Tinusbum. I said the same thing when I looked in the mirror while shaving today.
Nov 26, 2020 21:48:35 #
Nov 26, 2020 22:05:09 #
Nov 26, 2020 23:08:39 #
That is a remarkable picture. I suggest its one of the dwarf spiders, which are a group of, well, dwarf spiders. They can have these distinctly elevated eyes. Not a clear picture at the link, but it shows the basic idea:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/372535
https://bugguide.net/node/view/372535
Nov 26, 2020 23:32:12 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
That is a remarkable picture. I suggest its one of the dwarf spiders, which are a group of, well, dwarf spiders. They can have these distinctly elevated eyes. Not a clear picture at the link, but it shows the basic idea:
https://bugguide.net/node/view/372535
https://bugguide.net/node/view/372535
Thanks, Mark. I think that it is one of them from what I can see on the link of bugguide. It's about 1/4-inch in size and it is one of the spiders that my son brought to me during his last visit. Take care and enjoy the holiday.
Nov 27, 2020 03:38:51 #
Colours are quite striking on DL. Bronze, Black, Silver. Nice stack Sippy. How many and was it handheld and live subject?
Nov 27, 2020 06:45:28 #
OK, I now know just in case I am picked for the $64,000 quiz show.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedipalp
I am amazed when I see micro spiders and wonder what they eat? Do they feast on micro-micro animals that I can not see that are roaming around my home, perhaps skin mites? Sugar ants are common invaders in Florida... suddenly they disappeared and these micro ants appeared; did they have a war and the little guys won? Imprisoned by a lurking killer virus, we ponder things ignored in normal times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedipalp
I am amazed when I see micro spiders and wonder what they eat? Do they feast on micro-micro animals that I can not see that are roaming around my home, perhaps skin mites? Sugar ants are common invaders in Florida... suddenly they disappeared and these micro ants appeared; did they have a war and the little guys won? Imprisoned by a lurking killer virus, we ponder things ignored in normal times.
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Nov 27, 2020 08:57:22 #
Nov 27, 2020 09:46:22 #
Johann Schutte wrote:
Colours are quite striking on DL. Bronze, Black, Silver. Nice stack Sippy. How many and was it handheld and live subject?
Thanks, and I truly view you as a master of this craft. This was a 154-image stack taken with a 5X industrial finite microscope objective with a 0.13-NA. It is mounted on a bellows and the camera is a Fujifilm X-T20.
The focus rail is a digital motorized WeMacro controlled by a PC and this session was set to 20-micrometers increment steps. The specimen is preserved and the illumination is three constant IKEA LED lamps with packing foam diffusion.
The stack of images was processed with Zerene Stacker using the Pmax method.
Nov 27, 2020 09:53:12 #
dpullum wrote:
OK, I now know just in case I am picked for the $6... (show quote)
Thanks ever so much for the entertaining reply which is much appreciated at these trying times. It's truly a bug-eat-bug world so I suspect that there is always something for a predator to find as a meal.
Now...Sugar ants, oh my...we have a colony that has lived in our backyard for 40-years now. At times of the year they 'bring out the dead' by the shovel full. During the heat of the summer when the ground cracks they ooze out like a volcano. I suspect that the colony will be here long after I am gone.
Nov 27, 2020 09:54:27 #
JRiepe wrote:
Great shot but not a handsome dude.
Thanks for viewing and for the reply. I'm not so sure that even a mother could love some of them.
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