Spider
Mar 2, 2019 12:04:19 #
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Mar 2, 2019 16:11:51 #
That has got to be more than a macro lens. Is it one of those scanning microscope lens camera things?
Mar 2, 2019 18:13:57 #
Flakes Mill wrote:
That has got to be more than a macro lens. Is it one of those scanning microscope lens camera things?
Just a macro lens on a full frame camera.
Mar 2, 2019 19:32:58 #
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Mar 3, 2019 01:11:09 #
Wow! This one is really well done and incredibly frightening.
Mar 3, 2019 03:07:10 #
Mar 4, 2019 02:56:10 #
Ed Greding
Loc: Texas
Note that this fine specimen has eight eyes, as other spiders do. (However, only two if the eyes actually form an image. The other six are sensitive to light, thus still of great value to their owner.) 'Just thought you might like to know, in case you did not.
Mar 4, 2019 03:56:02 #
Thanks for the info Ed. I did not know that, and it is likely that only an entomologist or someone with an interest in this specific species would have that info. One wonders about the evolutionary function that such a configuration would have.
Mar 4, 2019 04:04:53 #
Johann Schutte wrote:
6d MP-E65
I can ID this, I believe. Porrhothele antipodiana. The Tunnel Web Spider. Not deadly as is it's relative the Funnel Web Spider.
Tunnel Web 50mm span with 30mm body length.
Bill
Mar 4, 2019 04:53:34 #
Ed Greding
Loc: Texas
Johann--- I'm not well-informed about spiders, but find them interesting. Possibly the "eyes" (ocelli) that do not form images, but are sensitive to changing light intensities would have selective value. Detection of a sudden shadow in one direction, for example, by these light receptors might indicate movement, and elicit an adaptive response on the part of their owner. 'Just an hypothesis. --- Ed
Mar 4, 2019 11:35:04 #
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