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probably a male - glen 7 July, 2010:
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Reply: This is a wolf spider - glen
5 July, 2010:
Hey Glen-
I have attached the larger pics to this e-mail (I left the small ones there too). Let me know if you have any trouble opening them.
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28 June, 2010:
Hi Glen,
Thought you might like to see another closeup of an argiope. It's the standard yellow and black one. This one was probably over 3" across the legs and is one of the largest I've seen. You're welcome to post it on your website if you'd like.
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17 June, 2010:
Hello Glen,
Love your site. It has helped in ID'ing some of the spiders I've photographed.
I'm attaching
- An argiope having lunch.
- A black widow
- Maybe a wolf spider. It was really enormous. It was larger than a sparrow. It would have been good to have positioned a ruler or something near the beast, but I wasn't going to get that close to it.
- An unknown spider
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More from Kim: Thank you so much for
your prompt response! After I emailed you I screwed up my
courage and took a few more photos; lo and behold, there ARE
babies emerging from the egg sac. What I took to be dark
markings were actually holes in the egg sac through which you
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Reply: This is a huntsman spider - glen
25 June, 2010:
Can you tell whether this is a wolf spider, a nursery web spider, or something else? I have waged a long and valiant war against my unreasoning fear of spiders, and I want to transfer this mama and her babies to a somewhat safer location (my cat is intensely interested in her and will swat her if she gets a chance, and while I am managing my fear, coming upon this magnificent being unexpectedly will cause me to have a stroke). If it helps, the egg sac is not round at all but very flattened with some dark markings on it. And are those babies starting to emerge?
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24 May, 2010:
Hi Glen-
Found you website today. It is great, thanks! Anyway I took these pictures in 2009 and was curious if this was a wolf spider. It was in our hydrangea bushes. We live in East Tennessee.
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Reply: This is a male Southern House Spider - glen
24 May, 2010:
Can you identify this spider? In Florida hanging out on the bathroom ceiling.
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Reply: Nic pics but this is a female Southern House Spider - glen
27 April, 2010:
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5 April, 2010:
I found this jumping spider on my front porch in southern NJ. All pictures taken by me and free for anyone to use. -Laura Lee
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4 March, 2010:
This spider was so small I couldn't see it with the naked
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16 November, 2009:
I HOPE YOU CAN USE SOME OF MY PICTURES ON YOUR WEBSITE!
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Reply: This is a garden orb weaver - glen
9 November, 2009:
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Could you please let me know what type of spider this is. I live in miami fl on a lake Please don't post these yet. These were shot at night and they are the orignal colors not fixed. Thanks Rick |
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MARBLED ORB WEAVERS - Intrusion Attempt
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15 October, 2009:
I took this photo last night - I'm pretty sure it's a wolf spider - Found it under the kitchen table here in Phoenix, Arizona. He seemed to be dazed, probably from crawling around in the perimeter bug killer we keep around the house (we'd be overrun by various bugs here in Phoenix if we didn't spray), and sat pretty still while I took a series of photos after setting him on a white sheet of paper. Feel free to use it on your site. Just put my name (not email) on it, and if you can my web address. thanks.
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(feel free to post it if you want - and to remove my site name if it's against your policy)
I have seen this large spider in Borneo, about 800m high, under the roof of a shed, close to a waterfall and a little lake that goes with it; it is huge, I would say the length from end of front leg to end of back leg is about 15cm (6"); it looks somewhat like one of your giant fishing spiders, but Borneo is in Asia, and I think I read these
are only in South America.
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3 September, 2009:
I am pretty certain that the spider I spend last night photographing is a wolf spider and I thought you wouldnt mind haveing a couple more photos to use on your site.
Caught under my one year old sons bed.
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3 June, 2009:
Hey Glen,
Cool, thanks.. I am sending you this pic I thought you'd like. It is rare to capture spiders mating, this is one of my best shots of them doing so.. these are Linyphiidae I found in a park near Portland. I would be privlaged if you would put it on your website somewhere. I put a link to your site in mine. I got this shot at some
expense since the park ranger said I was "off the trail!" My foot was about 1 foot off the paved path and I was harming nothing, (not even a weed) I managed to hold him off long enough in "polite conversation" to get this and a few other detailed shots! I also observed some interesting
behaviour, when they broke it off after getting spooked they did not seem to want to quit! I have one shot of them broken up and then they went at it again in a matter of about 20 sec. or so. This species locks fangs and clearly the males and females
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Mostly Macros photography
site URL http://gabebeas.blogspot.com
email: olngwb@yahoo.com
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Reply: Thanks, that looks like
Dolomedes tenbrosus- glen
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25 October, 2008:
Hey Glen,
I have a beautiful Cat-Faced Garden Orb Weaver Spider living above my bedroom window. Here are some pics of her sunbathing.
Great site, I really enjoy all the information!
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Here's a closeup of a huntsman's eye pattern. glen
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Reply: This is actually a wolf spider as I
can see 3 rows of eyes. Fishing spiders only have 2 rows.
16 July, 2007:
HI GLEN HERES A FISHING SPIDER FROM FRSNO CA. U.S.A.
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15 July, 2007:
HI GLEN HERES SOME MORE PICS FROM MY
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26 June, 2007:
Here's photos of Gustavo's giant fishing spider from
Venezuela.
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7 May, 2007:
Hello glen. I live in fresno ca. this must be a jumping
spider but is it male or female?
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19 November, 2006:
hi there....
I came upon your site after doing a search on house
spiders.......
I live in Scotland and found this beauty in my house....
(I'm assuming it's
Tegenaria gigantea and not a hobo )
well at least i hope it was because i picked it up
gorgeous
looking spider anyway...
thought maybe you'd like to use the shots on your site (I'm
a keen macro photographer)
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17 September,
2006:
Glen, I just love your website! My husband bought
me a new camera where I can now take macro shots of bugs,
etc. I have been shooting all weekend so far. Thought
you might enjoy this close-up of "Charlotte's Eyes."
Thanks! Sheila Bragg
Savannah, GA
USA
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8 August, 2006:
Hey there: Attached are a few more recent photos I've taken jumping spiders
near my home. These little guys are pretty photogenic, don't you
think? With regards, Steven Davis
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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 pieces 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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26 July, 2006:
Regal Jumping Spider "Blackie" -Rich Swanner
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28 June, 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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You can use it for your site if you would like
Best Regards,
Todd Avery
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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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I found this spider crawling on the kids swing set. I am in central coastal
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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 looking for.
I
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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Blackie Takes Lacewing-Rich Swanner
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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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"Blackie" again -Rich Swanner
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Regal Jumping Spider "Blackie"-Rich Swanner
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What a spider sees.-Rich Swanner
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Cellar Spider's Dinner-Rich Swanner
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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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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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Hello Ms. Crew,
I came across your school's spider pages while surfing and saw that
I could submit spider photos. My photos were taken by me with a
scanning electron microscope.
Your kids will get a unique, up close view with these photos. They
can also visit my website at
http://www.geocities.com/sciguyjim/sem.html
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7 November. 2002:
Hello Ms. Crew,
Thought I'd contribute to your school's spider page. These picture
might be interesting to your students. All 8 pictures are from
the same spider. I took them in Thailand. It's some type of a
jumping spider. In the close up picture, it's just a cropped portion
of a larger picture. Now, you can add a colour close-up to
your b/w pictures that Jim contributed. Hope you and your students
enjoy them. If you have any questions, you can email me.
Regards,
Shafak
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