Spider Appreciation Thread

[♥ Lily ♥]

Whether you're a fan of spiders or not, you've gotta appreciate the art of macro photography.

Unlike regular photographs, these spiders have been captured using a technique known as "macro photography."





This is when photographers use special macro lenses to zoom up on their subjects. In this case, it’s a bunch of hairy spiders.





Spiders can be incredibly difficult to photograph, causing a lot of blurriness. So, some photographers actually stitch multiple photos together in order to get a fully focused shot of the jumpy creatures.





As a result, these macro shots allow us to be more curious about our world—just look at the incredible detail of these arachnids.





Who knew they were so hairy, or quite so beautiful (yes, I said beautiful to describe a spider).





And while these spiders look like they’re posing for the camera, they’re incredibly restless, so the photographer needs as much patience as possible to produce these sorts of images.







Thank goodness these are all magnified. These images are incredible, but definitely preventing me from sleeping tonight.


Source: http://news.distractify.com/fun/anim...o-photography/

Amazing photography; they look like little aliens close-up!

[♥ Lily ♥]

Aranha Branca "White Spider"

That's a very unusual looking spider! There's a lot of interesting pictures here of spider types I've never seen before. There's so many different varieties of spiders. Some of them look very elegant, whilst other look more menacing, but looks can be deceiving, because even some pretty little black widow spider can inject more venom than some big hairy tarantula.

[Trogdor]

The Jumping Spider is really cool.

[♥ Lily ♥]

Araneus gemmoides, commonly known as the jewel spider and cat-faced spider,
is a common outdoor orb-weaver spider found in the USA and Canada.
They are considered harmless and have low-toxicity venom.
A. gemmoides are useful natural predators for insects.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araneus_gemmoides

[♥ Lily ♥]

An orb spider seen in South Africa
http://www.spiderzrule.com/catface.htm

[♥ Lily ♥]

A beautiful, cute, and interesting peacock spider which dances

[European Knight]

Two new, super cute species of peacock spider discovered in Queensland (video)

Spiders terrify most people, but two new species discovered in Queensland have many intrigued by their peculiar colours and shape.

Meet the peacock spider, two new species of which have recently been documented as being discovered in Queensland.

Maratus jactatu and maratus sceletus were found in the Wandul Range National Park, about 120km west of Toowoomba, by Madeline Girard, of the University of California, and a friend.

The pair have nicknamed the intriguing arachnids "Sparklemuffin" and "Skeletorus", because let's face it, Latin is a bit stodgy when it comes to describing creatures as fab as these cute little fellas.

Source: Jürgen Otto/Flikr















http://www.9news.com.au/national/201...-in-queensland

[Linebacker]

This thread needs more pictures of Wolf Spiders.Tarantulas don't have those huge starring eyes,thats why they look less scary.

[microrobert]

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