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Here's some great photos sent in by viewers. Many thanks for allowing
me to use these photos.
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29 September,
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16 September, 2006:
Glen, I managed to get some great shots these last few days of a
Black Widow, some Banana Spiders and Some Wolf Spiders. Hope you
can use them!
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Jason
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26 August, 2006:
Glen, Thought you could use a couple photos of a Southern House
Spider I ran across near my home in Georgia. I used a photo
imaging software to zoom in on the head and body of the
second photo. Once again, great site!! - Jason
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21 August, 2006:
Here are some
great close up photos of a female Sydney A. Robustus sent in by Colin Holliday. They were done under flash and show the colours
of the spider underneath and in the leg joints as well as the extent of the
hairs they have on their bodies which are not as noticeable without the
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31 July, 2006:
Hi Glen,
Thought I would send you a couple more photos of the Sydney
Funnel Web. This is one of the females I am keeping. I have her
housed in a container that is 20cm x 14cm and deep enough for
her not to be able to get out. I keep them on a substrate of
peat moss and put in peices of rounded bark to allow them to
make a home as natural as they do in the wild. This female is
approximately 3.5cm in length and, as funnel webs go, is not as
aggressive as some of them can get. She spends her days inside
the bark hollow and comes out when darkness has fallen. I feed
them crickets by leaving the insect in the container and
allowing the spiders to hunt them during the night. Trust you
like them for your website, Regards, Col Halliday
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6 July, 2006:
I just stumbled across your wonderful site while identifying some spiders. I
would like to contribute a few photos for your collection. I've been
photographing almost any interesting spider or insect that I have come
across. Feel free to use any of these photos for your site. Greg
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3 July, 2006:
Alright. Now I think I am fascinated by spiders...I now do respect
them way more than I used to...specially after I got bit. But oh well, this
email is to send you a few pictures I have in my archives taken by me. I
love photography, so hopefully now that I'll be more on the look out for
spiders, I will be able to send you more good ones. Here's my humble
contribution for your web site. Expect more... Best regards, Carolina
LaBranche, Charlotte, NC
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3 July, 2006:
Black Widow with Egg-Rich Swanner
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3 July, 2006:
Great website. I have attached two photos of a spider I found building a
web in my front yard. I'm located in central California, USA, and there are
usually many of these little guys around this time of year. Thank you, Sam Zaid |
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25 June, 2006:
Get a
Load of this! I have a nice shot of a nursery web spider guarding her egg
sack!
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25 June, 2006:
I've
been entertaining myself with this little fellow tonight-if I
could give a "treat" to a spider, I sure would-he let me take
over 200 shots-in different light, on different surfaces, in
different rooms-he was up for it all. Funny how he looks so
different from different angles. Actually, he's very pretty-for
a spider...
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17 June, 2006:
Hello Glen: I wanted to drop you a line and let you know that I came across your website
recently and I think it's an excellent resource. I've always been fascinated
with spiders and you've got quite an impressive collection of images. I case
you're interested in adding a few more photographs, I'd be happy to send you
some of mine. I guess I could be considered an advanced amateur photographer
and I am particularly fond of macro photography. I've attached a sample. I
came across this little jumper on the side of my house (in Holland, MI).
Luckily I had my camera and macro lens handy. With regards,
Steven Davis
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17 June, 2006:
I found this spider crawling on the kids swing set. I am in central coastal
NJ picture taken 6/16/06. Thanks
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11 June, 2006:
Hi Glenda,
As I
mentioned in my previous email to you, I am trying to get some
representative photos of the Brown Sydney Trapdoor as well as
some photos of the Sydney Funnel Web in natural light.
Trapdoors are not as co-operative as Funnel Webs and are usually
reluctant to "stand and deliver", preferring to seek shelter. I
have a Sydney Brown Trapdoor that I am feeding and growing and I
have attached a couple of photos of her which you may want to
use on your site if you feel they are what you are lookng for.
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have not been able to set up properly for a natural light shoot
of my Funnel Webs (one has to be extremely careful with these
spiders and it has been very wet outside for s while) but I have
attached a few taken under fluorescent light without a flash.
You can see the contrast in the colouring from my previous
photos taken with the flash. I am still working on the
opportunity for some controlled outdoor photos and I will send
then to you when I can get them done to my satisfaction.
Collin Halliday.
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10 June, 2006:
Blackie Takes Lacewing-Rich Swanner
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9 June, 2006:
This interesting little spider was found in
Austin , Texas . I’m still trying to figure out what kind it is. It was
found on a large leaf in the garden. The spider’s body is about 1/3”
long. Regards,
Jennifer Prince
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6 June, 2006:
"Blackie" again -Rich Swanner
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5 June, 2006:
Regal Jumping Spider "Blackie"-Rich Swanner
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4 June, 2006:
What a spider sees.-Rich Swanner
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3 June, 2006:
Cellar Spider's Dinner-Rich Swanner
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1 June, 2006:
From today Black Widow takes Bee-Rich Swanner
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29 May, 2006:
From Edwin, some great shots of spiderlings in their web.
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20 May, 2006:
Hi Glen, I came across your site last night whilst looking for
information on the Sydney Funnel Web (Atrax Robustus) and the
Brown Trapdoor Spider that lives in the Sydney area. Some of the photos you have a really great and I thought you
might like to have a look at some macro shots I have taken of a
female Sydney A. Robustus. They were done under flash and show
the colours of the spider underneath and in the leg joints as
well as the extent of the hairs they have on their bodies which
are not as noticeable without the flash. I have prints of these
on A4 and they are truly awesome. My next step is to try and get some photos in the natural light
as a contrast as well as some photos of a Trapdoor Spider. If you would be interested, let me know and I can email them
through to you when I can get them done. Maybe you would like to include them on you site. Note the venom
on the fangs in Picture 032. Hope you enjoy the as much as my
work colleagues did and they are of course subject to your
normal copyright conditions. Regards, Col Halliday
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12 May, 2006:
Jumping Spider- Rich Swanner
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1 May, 2006:
New Guy in Spiderland-Rich Swanner
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25 April, 2005:
Hi there, I looked all through your web site but couldn’t
find any reference to a spider we found today in the back
yard catching and eating bees. Attached is an image, can you
tell us what it is?
Thanks
Rab & Jo
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2 April, 2006:
Dear Glen,
I am attaching a reduced-size JPEG image of a phidippus johnsoni...
a male to be exact, (jumping spider) for you collection. (The master image is a 23.4
MB TIFF file that would lock you email up forever.) I took it
using a Canon 20D 8.2MP camera equiped with a Canon 65mm 1-5x
Macro Photo lens set to 3X at F6.3. Like all macro images the
depth of field in a small fraction of an inch so to create an
image with the entire spider in focus I shot a sequence of 45
images as the camera was incrementally racked from a position
where the hindmost leg was in focus to where the front-most leg
was in focus them digitally merged the in-focus sections of each
photo. The original prints up nicely at 16-inches wide with
every hair in sharp focus and no grain. I particularly like the
blue-green iridescence of the mandables and the fine orange hair
covering the abdomen.
Thank you for posting a great page that helped me identifiy this
little guy.
Sincerely,
Wayne Schmidt
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17 March, 2006:
Funnel Web Spider-Rich
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10 March 2006:
Funnel Weaver Spider-Rich Swanner
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10 March 2006:
I have been taking pictures of spiders for a couple of weeks. I
thought I would send them to you to see what you think. They were
taken with a Fuji finepix S9500. Thanks, Sylvia from Canberra.
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20 February, 2006:
Glen I just found your new page WOW! This is
Daring Jumping Spider"Blackie"-Rich Swanner
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17 February, 2006:
Our house is loaded with them. I'm going to get an
exterminator out here and if they can't get 'em all but stopped then I'll
consider strongly......moving from the house. We have a baby crawling around
and that's just a bit too scary. We see them all too often.
Hope you like the photos. If you need more I can get 'em
anytime and can get some better ones if you like.
blessings, Ken
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9 February, 2006:
This is Tappy's son Jumping Spider Tappy Jr.-Rich Swanner
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7 February, 2006:
Photo by
Mike. This photo is for
sale on Mikes website at
http://www.michaeldweber.net
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7 February, 2006:
Hi Glen, Thanks for the great informative site. I took
these pics of a spider in our garden (Orb?). Hope they
are useful. Cheers
Leon
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7 February, 2006:
Glen this is Jumping Spider "Tappy Jr." His dad was here
last year.-Rich Swanner
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26 January, 2006:
Found this spider hanging under a large cement block last fall.
Measured almost 3 inches in length, and moved amazingly fast for
it's size (and obvious attached cargo) ...
K. Mason
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22 January, 2006:
Hi Glen! I want to share with you some really nice photos of the
Banded Argiope Spiders. They are really lovely close-ups taken
by my brother's digital camera.
Thanks! Joe
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19 January, 2006:
Hello, This spider is amazing! My mum found it while pruning - it's
sitting on a branch, and it's so well camouflaged she only noticed
it because it moved! Anyway, here are the pictures...good luck with
identifying this guy! Carine. South Australia
PS. On a sadder note, the Black House spider that I've been looking
after (I've sent you pictures of her & babies) was recently killed
by a white-tail spider. It was very upsetting for us - we didn't
expect her to lose the battle, because twice before she's caught and
killed white-tails. Anyway, we console ourselves with the fact she
led a good life for a year, and she's had many babies released by
us.Can you see the spider in the
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12 January, 2006:
This is another garden orb weaver, they abound at this time of the year -
high Summer in Australia - glen
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12 January, 2006:
This garden orb weaver would have to be the biggest I've ever seen. She
took about half an hour to weave a huge web past night and took it
all down again before sunrise this morning - glen
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5 January, 2006:
Both photos were taken on November 11th, 2005 at Runaway Bay
in Jamaica. The spider was sitting in it's web about 9 feet up in
the air in an arch over a walkway. I got as close as I could
(about three feet from the spider) and took the photos with a
Kodak DCS-Pro 14nx camera and a 210mm telephoto lens from
Nikon. AlexX.
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