Posts Tagged ‘arachnids’

Party Tick

Apr 20th, 2012

(crowd image by Paul Underhill, used under a CC-SA-3.0 license; tick image from here)

My photographic project this evening was to capture one of the more endearing behaviors (or annoying behaviors, I suppose, for all you haters out there) of hungry ticks. The arachnids crawl to a high point- say, a blade of grass- and wave their legs about hoping to snare a tasty mammal. The habit is called [...]

And now, some arachnids

Jan 28th, 2010

by myrmecos.

11 comments

Arachnids (you know, spiders and mites and things) never had much of a presence in my photo galleries. While I could chalk their absence up to an obsessive focus on formicids, the reality is that I’m mildly arachnophobic. Photographing spiders makes me squirm, so I don’t do it very often. Oddly, it really is just [...]

Tick

Oct 15th, 2009

by myrmecos.

3 comments

It’s Thursday night. Here’s a tick: Photo details: Canon MP-E 65mm 1-5x macro lens on a Canon EOS 50D ISO 100, f/13, 1/250 sec, flash diffused through tracing paper

Spider 1, Bird 0

Oct 22nd, 2008

by myrmecos.

5 comments

Take that, vertebrate scum! Incidentally, my wife used to have one of these Nephila spiders nesting in the high ceiling of her living room when she was living in Queensland. I guess she used it to dissuade potential suitors, but somehow I made it through.