Excellent pictures. Strange looking spider, more like an alien. Toine
On 11 June 2015 at 06:23, Igor PDML-StR <pdml...@komkon.org> wrote: > > Warning: not for people with arachnophobia. > > Today, I saw a very unusual spider. It is called "spiny orb weaver", but it > looks like a stormtrooper: > http://42graphy.org/misc/2015-06-10-spider/ > The second photo shows the unusually colorful butt (and you might be able to > see even the tiny thread coming from it to about 7:30) > The formal classification name is Gasteracantha cancriformis > http://goo.gl/5a3ui1 > Apparently, these species are frequent in this part of the country. > > It was hard to photograph this creature because of the light breeze that was > sufficient to move the web in and out of focus but insufficient to prevent > me from sweating in the over-90F heat. > > All comments are welcome. > > Igor > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
