Search Results
Spider Saturday: Portraying Size
One of the difficulties nature photographers have is providing the viewer with a sense of size. Take a photo of a building and the viewer knows how large it is based on their knowledge of the average height of the building’s floors. But take a photo of an insect sitting on a rock and [...]
Spider Saturday: Wolf Spider
This week’s spider is a wolf spider, from the Lycosidae family. There are over 200 species of this spider in North America and many more found around the world. I took this female in the Los Angeles County Arboretum in mid March of this year amongst dead leaves. Notice the egg sac hanging from below. [...]
Spider Saturday: The Desert Recluse
Folklore stories are still alive in the West. People share tales of a mythical spider, a deadly menace looking for its next unsuspecting victim. “A single bite from this eight-legged beast will cause your skin to fall off!” or so they say. These campfire tales always seem to be told by those [...]
Spider Saturday: Wall Spider
My apartment usually gets a few uninvited guests dropping in this time of year. I find them in unexpected places as well: the kitchen counter ar the bathroom floor. They don’t seem to cause any harm and I suspect that they’re eating other uninvited guests, so I hesitate before reaching for the paper towel. They [...]
Spider Saturday: Garden Orb Weaver
I photogged this spider in Nicaragua last December. This golden orb weaver would set up its 4 to 5-foot wide web every evening and take it down every morning. When I first discovered it, sitting in its web waiting for prey, I was just on my way to my tent to call it a night. [...]
Spider Saturday: Marbled Cellar Spider
For this week’s spider, we have a common marbled cellar spider (female) – (Holocnemus pluchei):
Spider Saturday: Cobalt Blue Tarantula
For this week’s Spider Saturday post, I have a tarantula that is known to be fast, aggressive, reclusive, and nervous. A cobalt blue tarantula (Haplopelma lividum) can be found in the forests of Southeast Asia, however I photographed this guy at the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum’s annual Bug Fair, in 2008.
Spider Saturday
I’m starting a new blog habit this week: Saturday will now be “Spider Saturday” (or SpiSat) here on bugshutterbug.com. I’ll post a photo of a spider every Saturday until I either run out of spiders or run out of Saturdays.