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Keith Burton


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Crab Spider

Crab Spider
I spotted this tiny little crab spider (less than 1cm) on some leaves in my garden. It is so well camouflaged that had it not moved, I probably wouldn't have seen it - I dashed off to get my camera, but by the time I got my macro lens fitted and got back in the garden it was gone. It was two days before I spotted it again and as usual I had the wrong lens on, so rather than leave it again I used my 40-150mm zoom. This is a large crop. View large if you can be bothered.

The plant is a Stachys Byzantina commonly called Lambs Ear.

ROL/Photo, Gudrun, Colin Ashcroft, trester88 and 18 other people have particularly liked this photo


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 Colin Ashcroft
Colin Ashcroft club
A great find and fascinating close up. I thought it may be even smaller but you got a couple of perfect sharp shots.
4 years ago.
 Keith Burton
Keith Burton club has replied
It would do if it was bigger than 1cm Wilhelm..!! Glad you like it.
4 years ago.
 Keith Burton
Keith Burton club has replied
Thanks Colin.................the beauty of these spiders is they tend to hang around on the one plant for ages..........so you can go back again and again if you want to. I have plenty of photo's of it now, so I'll leave it in peace for a while.
4 years ago.
 Gudrun
Gudrun club
The photo is perfect but I'm glad that spider is not crawling on my screen;-)
4 years ago.
 Keith Burton
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Awww............it's such a tiny little thing! I don't like getting too close to the bigger ones..!!

Glad you like the photo though :-)
4 years ago.

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