Araneus Diadematus
This photo is three kinds of awesome:
- The Jeremiah Trifecta is now complete.
- Jeremiah had to get REEEEALLLY close to this spider to take this picture, and he chose to do so, in spite of being an arachnophobe, in order to take this photo specifically for InsectPOD.
- No seriously, go back and read #2 again. And again. In fact, I’m upgrading this photo to seven kinds of awesome, and this and the next four all read “No seriously, go back and read #2 again.”
With this photo, Araneus diadematus pulls slightly ahead in the popularity polls against Phidippus audax. If it can continue this winning streak in the critical states of Texas and Ohio on March 4th, it may be able to clinch the Democratic party presidential nomination. But enough about politics.
There are two things I really like about this photo. The first is that you can see a fly stuck in her web at the top of the photo. The second is that I laughed out loud when I saw this picture, because the “lolbug” for it was immediately obvious in my mind.
JFargo said,
February 22, 2008 @ 7:54 pm
Again, I love to see my photos up here.
When I first saw this photo that I had snapped, I thought it looked like a potato with legs. Still do, as a matter of fact.
It was HUGE. Also?
AHHHHH!
MacNut said,
February 22, 2008 @ 11:17 pm
HAHAHA! The lolbug photo was SO wrong and yet SO funny.
MacNut said,
February 22, 2008 @ 11:18 pm
Oh, and one more thing-Jeremiah, for overcoming your fear and taking such a great photo, you seriously ROCK!
JFargo said,
February 23, 2008 @ 11:47 am
For some reason it makes it much easier for me to get close to a spider if I have a camera. If I’m getting close because I want to take a cool shot, I can get into the details of the work and not focus on “omg, spider!”
That’s not nearly the closest I’ve gotten to a spider because it would make a good photo: I once held a quarter ~right next to~ a spider the size of the quarter long enough to snap a (bad) photo of it.
Then I immediately ran away like a little sissy.
WT said,
March 11, 2008 @ 10:00 am
I could be wrong, but it looks to me like there are actually three flies stuck in its web. They form an almost equilateral triangle with the spider at the center.