Spiderling Eating Wingless Fruit Fly Phase#1: If I had a dollar for every jumping spider.... Baby Phidippus mystaceus eating wingless fruit flies. Don Cadle sent me the adult female...

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Spiderling Eating Wingless Fruit Fly Phase#1

Mar 1, 2015 09:24:29 #

martinfisherphoto Loc: Lake Placid Florida

If I had a dollar for every jumping spider.... Baby Phidippus mystaceus eating wingless fruit flies. Don Cadle sent me the adult female several months ago to photograph for his website. She had already laid her egg sack so I had to wait about 4 weeks before the eggs hatched and the babies left the egg sack. At that time, I removed the mother, and begin feeding these fruit flies to the spiderlings. They make an excellent, fresh live food source. Guess you guys will now have to suffer through as I document these spiderlings to adulthood.
P.S. need to find my reverse ring mount and use the 35mm on tubes or mount /step down rings/on the 100mm to get larger photos.

Mar 1, 2015 09:48:54 #

Tom DePuy Loc: Waxhaw, N.C.

I like the first one the best

Mar 1, 2015 13:56:33 #

Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA

All are interesting. I wish I could enlarge.

Mar 1, 2015 14:42:26 #

Macronaut Loc: Redondo Beach,Ca.

:thumbup:

Mar 1, 2015 16:44:21 #

martinfisherphoto Loc: Lake Placid Florida

Nikonian72 wrote:

All are interesting. I wish I could enlarge.

Hey Douglass, reason I'm breaking out the other lens. These are 2:1 and still heavily cropped with 24 MP. Only about 2.5 MP left after the crop. Itty Bitty Babies.

Mar 1, 2015 17:08:51 #

CraigFair Loc: Santa Maria, CA.

Nice series Martin.
Craig

Mar 1, 2015 18:02:10 #

Nikonian72 Loc: Chico CA

martinfisherphoto wrote:

These are 2:1 and still heavily cropped with 24 MP. Only about 2.5 MP left after the crop.

I figured as much. Still looking forward to you posting higher resolution photos.

This situation is why I am converting my Nikkor 135-mm f/2.8 to an auto-aperture extension tube for reverse-mounting.

Mar 2, 2015 06:19:56 #

waltchilds Loc: Central Florida

Martin, I like all of these and especially number 1. Looks like you are having fun. Looking forward to seeing how they grow.

Mar 2, 2015 12:38:22 #

Albuqshutterbug Loc: Albuquerque NM

Really nice series.
I think I like #2 the best. It really shows how small the spider is compared to the fruit fly.
What a big dinner for such a small fellow.
Nicely shot.

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