A female Golden Orb Weaver spider. Total diameter about the size of an adult's hand. This one built her web right next to a flowering palm tree in my yard that was covered with bees. She catches the bees, paralyses them, kills them and coats them in saliva to break them down so she can 'drink' them because she can't digest them internally. I stalked her for over an hour and took this shot leaning off my front balcony with camera at arm's length. Well worth it I think.
18 responses
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Carol Woolgar gave props (8 Nov 2008):
nice ! she's a monster.
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Brad Hayne said (8 Nov 2008):
Thanx Carol. She looks it, but she's very timid, if I got too close to her she'd run away.
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Regenia Brabham gave props (8 Nov 2008):
Terrific shot.
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Scott Derryberry gave props (8 Nov 2008):
awesome shot!
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Brad Hayne said (8 Nov 2008):
Thanx Regenia
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Brad Hayne said (8 Nov 2008):
thanx scott
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Ny2Nj66 gave props (15 Nov 2008):
Awesome capture here
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Laura LaRoche said (20 Nov 2008):
Makes me shiver, great shot.
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Brad Hayne said (20 Nov 2008):
Thanks
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Lindsey DeFilippis said (29 Nov 2008):
awesome shot! but the idea of how close you had to get gives me the heebie jeebies!
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Brad Hayne said (30 Nov 2008):
Thanks Lindsey. Actually, believe it or not, Orb spiders are very shy spiders, if I got too close to her she would run away to the furthest part of her web.
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Antonio Romero gave props (17 Apr 2009):
Wonderful capture
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Alex Sogliero said (12 May 2009):
your good brotha
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elfriede fulda gave props (21 May 2009):
Such clarity, detail,,and totally interesting..
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Josh Wagy gave props (15 Jul 2009):
wow!
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Michael Kim said (22 Jul 2009):
AMAZING capture!!
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Sandy Tyler gave props (7 Aug 2009):
OMG, great shot, love it. I have a Orb Weaver spider on JPG, but it has a crab like appearance. It is one of the first images I uploaded.
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Keiko Ehret gave props (26 Oct 2009):
This would have been very fitting in the "breakfast" theme too! Hahaha. Nice capture (both you and the spider)!! ♥♥
