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Garden Orb Weaver Spider

22nd September 2011

We have an orb weaver spider in residence on the other side of our bedroom window...

This is a wonderful short BBC Wildlife video of an orb weaver spider spinning her web...  Absolutely worth watching the beauty of the process...


Although I am a bit nervous around spiders...  This morning when I opened the curtains, she was busy rebuilding part of her web...  and I could not fail but to be amazed at how she was working...


My orb weaver spider has beautiful striped legs...  I often see these spiders in the garden in Autumn...


I pretty much tried every lens that I own to take these photographs... and fervently wishing that I had a macro lens...  In the end I had most success using the AF-S Nikkor 35 mm prime lens with the Canon 52mm close-up lens 500D attached.


Soon after taking these photographs, having finished her work, she vacated her web and headed off to the corner of the window frame to snooze...  

2 comments:

Great shots of this spider!

I did it again, posted my comment in the wrong place. Sorry about that, Nikki!

 

Are they dangerous? I have one outside my kitchen window facing the back yard in New Jersey.

 

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