Early spider gets the worm.
The walnut orb-weaver spiderNuctenea umbratica, is one of the earliest spiders here, appearing already in February.
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caught two lynx spider species at the same time #photography #lynxspider #spiderphotography

Spider on a web (08.09.2025)

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No silk trails. No safety net. Just color, stillness, and perfect timing. Fun fact: Yellow lynx spiders don’t use webs to hunt. They rely on sharp vision and lightning-fast jumps, often ambushing prey directly on leaves and flowers. #YellowLynxSpider #LynxSpider #MacroNature #SpiderPhotography #Veinbug

No silk trails. No safety net.
Just color, stillness, and perfect timing.

Fun fact: Yellow lynx spiders don’t use webs to hunt. They rely on sharp vision and lightning-fast jumps, often ambushing prey directly on leaves and flowers.

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Walking my running hood.... saw a baby "Darwin's Bark" spider, a monkey flower which screamed "capture me" ...and I enjoyed the late morning views... happy Sunday, peeps #spiderphotography #flowerphotography #flowerpower #Phuket #walking

Golden Orb weaving a golden web 🕷🕸
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A golden orb-weaver feeding on a butterfly #spider #spiderphotography #Phuket

A female giant golden orb-weaver (Nephila pilipes), a species known for its large size and impressive webs.... this one was almost as big as my hand... #spider #spiderphotography #Phuket

It's the second time I found a "Darwin's bark spider"... this time a smaller one... it's remarkable that the spider was discovered in Madagascar in 2009 and named in honor of Charles Darwin.
Its silk is renowned as the toughest biological material ever studied. #spider #rare #spiderphotography

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For the last several years, the Atlanta area has seen a significant uptick in an invasive species of spider known as the Joro spider. Last year was my first year of really noticing them around the house. This year, I've paid attention to them more, occasionally surveying the largest in our backyard. This year, it came down to this one, the last Joro. It had clearly seen some difficult times, having lost two font legs. Not long after this, we had a cold snap. I checked and it was gone I'm not sure if it had occasion to lay the eggs that were in her swollen abdomen. If you're still here reading this, perhaps you're not icked out by spider photos. Take a closer look. Using my macro lens, I was able to capture the spider's fangs.

For the last several years, the Atlanta area has seen a significant uptick in an invasive species of spider known as the Joro spider. Last year was my first year of really noticing them around the house. This year, I've paid attention to them more, occasionally surveying the largest in our backyard. This year, it came down to this one, the last Joro. It had clearly seen some difficult times, having lost two font legs. Not long after this, we had a cold snap. I checked and it was gone I'm not sure if it had occasion to lay the eggs that were in her swollen abdomen. If you're still here reading this, perhaps you're not icked out by spider photos. Take a closer look. Using my macro lens, I was able to capture the spider's fangs.

The Last Joro. Details in alt text. #photography #photographychallenge #photooftheday #photographer #macrophotography #macrophoto #macrophotographer #Spider #spiders #spidersoffacebook #spiderphotography #spiderphoto #spidersofinstagram #joro #jorospider #jorospiders #science #spiderwebphotography 🧪

“The Weaver's Portrait”

Genre(s): Wildlife Photography

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A long stretchy spider.

Long-jawed Spider
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The Pond

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Spined Micrathena (Micrathena gracilis) There’s something about the way Spined Micrathena hangs there, suspended beneath the leaf’s edge. It’s not dramatic. It’s the feeling of stillness. The dark space around the Spined Micrathena, the way the green above holds all the light whilst everything below falls away into shadow. You notice the threads first, barely visible, catching just enough illumination to prove they exist. I’d gone out to the deck to refill the suet feeder. The birds had been through it quickly in the previous days, and I’d been putting off the task. It was mid-July, but the air still held that heaviness from earlier rain. Just before one o’clock—that flat midday light that usually isn’t ideal for photography. But then I remembered the web. I’d seen it a few days earlier when I was out there with the hummingbird feeder, topping up the nectar. Caught it accidentally then, snagged it with my sleeve or the feeder itself—I wasn’t sure which. I’d felt terrible about it. But it had been rebuilt. Of course it had been rebuilt. That’s what spiders do. This time I was more careful. Set the suet down and went back in for the camera. The Fujinon 16-55mm with the MCEX-16 extension tube—my usual macro setup. The light was decent enough, but I grabbed the Godox ring flash anyway. A pop of light to separate the subject, to push that background into darkness. Sometimes you want that isolation, that sense of the creature existing in its own small pocket of space. It was the smallest spider I’d ever seen. Spined Micrathena are tiny orb-weavers, rarely more than a few millimetres across, and this one seemed particularly small. They build their webs in wooded areas, stringing them between branches and leaves, waiting for small flying insects to blunder into the silk. Patient hunters, mostly. The spines on their abdomen—those distinctive projections that give them their name—make them difficult prey for birds. Evolution’s small cleverness. I’m still not entirely sure how something so small manages to construct something so precise, so architectural. The photographs make it seem almost substantial, but in person it was barely there—a dark speck of intention hanging in space. I crouched down, trying to get the angle right, trying not to disturb anything this time. Spined Micrathena (Micrathena gracilis) · Wednesday 16 July 2025 FujiFilm X-T3 · ISO 200 · 1/250 sec XF16-55mmF2.8 R LM WR · 55 mm · f/8.0 There’s a particular kind of quiet that comes with this sort of photography. You have to slow everything down—your breathing, your movements, even your thoughts. The deck creaked slightly beneath my weight. The afternoon was still, no midges, just the weight of the camera gear pulling at my arms as I tried to hold it steady. The combination of lens, extension tube, and ring flash makes for an awkward bulk, and at this magnification even the slightest tremor shows. The spider didn’t help. It kept moving—small adjustments at first, then more pronounced shifts along its thread. Perhaps it sensed the shadow cast by the ring flash, that dark circle appearing suddenly where there had been only midday brightness. I waited between movements, trying to time the shutter for those brief moments of stillness, but it was never truly still. Neither was I. I used to walk past things like this without seeing them. Out to fill the feeders, back inside, task complete. Somewhere along the way I’d stopped noticing the smaller dramas happening just beyond my routine movements. But this spider—this impossibly small spider—demanded attention simply by existing, by persisting, by rebuilding what I’d carelessly destroyed. The second photograph shows it more clearly—away from the leaf now, hanging in open space against that gradient of warm darkness. The flash has done its work, separating subject from surroundings, creating that fall-off into black. The threads are more visible here, two delicate lines suspending it in the middle of nothing. There’s geometry in it, accidental and perfect. This frame came after several failed attempts, after waiting for it to settle, after my arms began to ache from holding the camera at an awkward angle. It took perhaps twenty minutes, this whole encounter. Maybe less. Long enough for my knees to complain about the crouch, for the afternoon heat to make itself felt. Long enough to forget about the suet feeder entirely, about the tasks that had brought me outside in the first place. When I stood up, it was still there, still moving slightly, still alive to whatever signals spiders read from their surroundings. The web barely swayed. I collected the suet, filled the feeder finally, and went back inside. Tomorrow it might be gone, or it might be there still, making repairs, hunting, doing whatever impossibly small spiders do. The deck would be there either way. The feeders would need filling again. And perhaps I’d remember to look, to really look, before moving through. ### Like this: Like Loading...

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Spined Micrathena (Micrathena gracilis) A tiny spider rebuilds its web on the deck, prompting an unexpected pause between tasks.

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The Beauty of Arachnids: Macro Shot of a Brown Widow Spider's Body (Latrodectus geometricus)

Macro Shot of a Brown Widow Spider's Body (Latrodectus geometricus).
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Orbweaver spider on window glass.

Orbweaver spider on window glass.

Two views of a Bridge Orbweaver. 1st is taken at night using a mouth held flashlight and camera flash. 2nd pic is backlit by the setting sun.
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Twin-flagged jumping spider (Anasaitis canosa)

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Macro photograph of a whitish Mecaphesa crab spider atop a purple salvia flower

A Mecaphesa crab spider on a salvia flower for #Arachtober -

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A black and brown spider on a window pane.

Bridge Orbweaver flash photography pic.
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Macro photograph of a furrow orbweaver, Larinoides, hanging from the web in a bottlebrush tree

A furrow orbweaver for day 1 of #Arachtober - a pretty one, hanging from the web in a small bottlebrush tree -

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The invasive Joro spider, a visitor from Asia that has taken over Georgia.

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Meet my new eight-legged neighbor! This garden spider has set up a gorgeous web right outside my dining room window.

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