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Alligators at Brazos Bend State Park Page 1  Critters at Brazos Bend State Park Page 1
Alligators at Brazos Bend State Park Page 2  Critters at Brazos Bend State Park Page 2
Alligators at Brazos Bend State Park Page 3  Spiders page 2
Alligators at Brazos Bend State Park Page 4
Alligators at Brazos Bend State Park Page 5
Alligators at Brazos Bend State Park Page 6
Alligators at Brazos Bend State Park Page 7
Alligators at Brazos Bend State Park Page 8

As I get more pictures of spiders (and perhaps other non-insect arthropods), I'll be putting them here. I'll try to give some information as well. I recommend a book I've bought recently to anyone who is interested in spiders. The title is: Biology of Spiders, by Rainer F. Foelix, published in 1996. This has a lot of information on spider biology. This is not an identification guide, but is filled with detail on how spiders do what they do(Since they're "spiders" do they "spide"? Is what spiders do called "spiding"? Probably not. It's just another mystery of the English language.). On November 23, 2003, I moved all the information on Golden Silk Spiders to another page.

July 7, 2002  Happy 4th of July Weekend! I was able to go to the park 3 times over the last 4 days. Interesting stuff happened. (Well, interesting to me, and since this is my page, I guess you're going to see some of it.) I'll start with what happened last. I was talking with Mark and Sharon, sitting on the bench outside the front door of the VC, when a vertical moving object in my peripheral vision caught my attention.  I turned to look, and saw what seemed to be a piece of Spanish Moss slowly moving to the ground. I guess the slowness of the fall must have caught my attention. I glanced at it, and was about to turn back to the conversation, when the "moss" got up and started hopping/running (see ON THE GROUND,below)! I made a number of exclamatory sounds, and all three of us went over to examine the spider. As we got there, a small red wasp (about 1/2 to 3/4 inches long) started harassing the spider. It landed behind, and ran after the spider, it crossed in front, it circled, and then, it ran under the spider. The spider, meanwhile, had stopped, and had raised its body up from the ground. Once or twice, it lunged at the
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  WITHOUT A FLASH                WITH A FLASH                       CLOSEUP OF HEAD               ON THE GROUND
wasp, perhaps biting it (it moved very quickly). The wasp seemed to give up, and flew away. We examined the spider, and then Mark had it crawl onto a stick and he put the spider on one of the Live Oak trees.  By then I had retrieved my camera, and took a few pictures. The rickubiscam this week shows the spider against the bark.  The following pictures show better detail. Clicking two of the thumbnail images will show a 640 x 480 image. This spider's camouflage is amazing!  I found that taking a picture with a flash contrasted the spider better against the bark. Its coloration blended well also with the conditions on the ground.  I am guessing that this is a variety of wolf spider, mostly because it resembles one or two varieties that I was able to find pictures of.  If anyone out there has a better identification, please let me know.
New information 7/22/2002: Yesterday, I talked to Sharon (Park Naturalist) about this spider. She suggested that it was perhaps a "Nursery Web Spider". So, I did some research. I was able to find some information and pictures on the internet, and in my two spider books as well. From what I can see, this seems to be a Nursery Web Spider. Some members of this group are also called Fishing Spiders. I think it's one of two species: Dolomedes Tenebrosus, or Dolomedes Albineus. My Golden Guide to Spiders and Their Kin (Levi) states that D. Tenebrosus lives in the U.S. East of the Rocky Mountains; but The Audubon Society Guide to North American Insects and Spiders gives their range as "New England and adjacent areas of Canada".  I suppose one could say Texas was adjacent to Canada if one is speaking on an astronomical scale, but I don't think they are.  I found this website however, which may shed some light on this mystery: http://www.dolomedes.net/
On this website, Ms. Kissane shows a spider that looks very much like the one I saw, and also mentions that they are one of the few species of Dolomedes that lives primarily on land (remember, these are usually called "Fishing Spiders"), and that they also live in trees in the Southeastern U.S..  Sure sounds like our critter, doesn't it? That would make it D. Albineus.
More new information 7/22/2002: I had emailed Ms. Kelly C. Kissane and asked her about this spider. She wrote back (twice! Thanks, Ms. Kissane!) and said that based on the pictures, and the head shot, she was comfortable with the identification as Dolomedes Albineus.  Ms. Kissane also said that D. Tenebrosus' (the other species) range extends further than what I mentioned above, and that she's found them "as far south as Southern Virginia, and as far west as Missouri". However, the one in my pictures is a "Nursery Web Spider", or "Fishing Spider", or "Whitebanded Fishing Spider"--Dolomedes Albineus.
I found the following classification at this website: http://www.floridanature.org/species.asp?species=Dolomedes_albineus
     Kingdom: Metazoa (Animalia)
     Phylum: Arthropoda (arthropods)
     Class: Arachnida (spiders, harvestmen, scorpions, mites, etc.)
     Order: Araneae (spiders)
     Family: Pisauridae (nursery web spiders)
     Genus: Dolomedes (fishing spiders)
     Species: Dolomedes albineus
     Common Names: Whitebanded Fishing Spider
Spiders are turning out to be quite interesting. But, they are difficult to identify in some cases. I'm also unsure of the differences between the species. I guess I'll just have to find out more about them.  I guess I'll also have to become more familiar with taxonomic classification of life, also.

July 21-20, 2002  I guess we're moving into our summer weather, although it hasn't broken 100 degrees F yet. The number of visitors to the park has lessened somewhat. Today, July 21(Sunday), I took a few more pictures of some of our Golden Silk Spiders. This picture shows a pretty big one (see HOW BIG?, above).  I took two more pictures of this one, with different objects to give a better idea of the size. (See CATCH MY NAME, and WITH A QUARTER above). These spiders are usually harmless to humans, but it still gave me some heebie-jeebies to look through the camera zoomed in as I moved my hand closer to the spider. I'll mention here that Ms. Kissane, in our early communication, pointed out the there is a very poisonous, and aggressive spider from South America also known as "Banana Spider", because it has turned up in shipments of bananas here in the U.S. Please don't start killing the spiders I've shown here under the impression that these "Banana Spiders" are the same. They aren't.

August 18, 2002  I went to check on my Alligator Gar's head. This is the same large gar that I've mentioned before. I'm trying once again to clear the remaining decaying matter off of it. This time, I'm using a steel mesh cage that I made, and I placed this on an ant's nest.  I'd picked up the head, and inspected it, and when I set it back down, I saw a large spider on top of the skull. At this point, I think it's some type of wolf spider, but I'll see if I can identify it. Both pictures show the spider standing on the gar's skull. (see Wolf1 and Wolf2, below. Wolf2 is pictured with a quarter.)

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              WOLF 1                                               WOLF 2
According to my Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders, this is a wolf spider. Specifically, it's known as a Rabid Wolf Spider (isn't that a nice name?), Lycosa Rabida. When I searched the internet, I found that this species has been renamed Rabidosa Rabida. At this point, I don't know much about spider classification, and for now I'm putting the Latin names for animals on my pages for both readers' and my education. It will be a long time before I can remember all these names. The key identification point seems to be the two lengthwise dark stripes on the front section (cephalothorax, sometimes called the "prosoma" on spiders), and the dark stripe between two pale stripes on the abdomen (also called the "opisthosoma" on spiders).  The two main body parts are joined by a thin joint called the "pedicel" (Source for body part names: Biology of Spiders-2nd edition, by Rainer F. Foelix.)  Click the image below to see these parts labeled on a real spider.
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September 4, 2002  Last Monday, Labor Day, I was at the park, doing park things, when John drove up in one of the gators. He told me about a large spider that he saw inside one of the water stations on the Spillway trail. Not long after that, Herb mentioned the same spider.

So, I stopped by this water station, and looked inside.  I did't see any spider, and started to stick my head in, but then decided I might not like a large,  annoyed spider of indeterminate species jumping down onto the back of my neck. So, I carefully looked again, and then I found it.  With a little maneuvering I was able to get some pictures. One is below.

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I suspected that this was another spider of the Dolomedes genus. So, I decided to ask the "Princess of Dolomedes", Ms. Kelly Kissane.

Here is part of my email to her:
          ....Here's my story. Yesterday, two people told me about this "big spider" that was hiding in our little water  station.
          They knew I like to take pictures of them. So, I looked, and found it hiding up against the ceiling. The picture with it
          against the end of the board shows where I found it. That wood is about 1-3/8 inches to a side.  I blew on the spider,
           and it moved  onto the wall, allowing me to get the other shot. I'm reluctant to bother the animals too much, so that's
           all I did. I was lucky to get the shots I did, considering I had to reach inside the box while
           holding the camera.
           Am I right in guessing that this is a Dolomedes Tenebrosus? The body shape and the "frowning face" eye
           arrangement seems similar to our other friend's (D. Albineus). Also, that pattern on the rear segment
           (abdomen/opisthosoma) seems like what I can see in the guidebook. Since I think it's a Dolomedes, I figured
           you'd be the person to ask....

And here is her answer:

           Rick,

           That's definitely Dolomedes tenebrosus - a large female.  The males are less than 1/2 that size
           (sometimes they're 1/4 the size of the female)....

            Kelly

So, there's the story. I've been fortunate (some may not agree) to be able to see two different spiders in the genus Dolomedes.

September 08, 2002 The picture below(GREEN LYNX) shows a "Green Lynx Spider" (Peucetia viridens), with a quarter. For those who haven't figured it out, the various coinage that appears in my nature pictures is for scale, and NOT because I have to pay any of these animals to pose, and not because they need the money.
The Green Lynx Spider doesn't make a web to live in (like the various orb weavers do), but instead it likes to skulk about in vegetation, pouncing out on any prey that might happen by.  As I was searching the internet for information on this spider, I discovered an interesting fact. These spiders spit poison! (Oh, no...not another venom-spitting arthropod!) Click here to see a .pdf file that gives this information. The spitting in this species appears to be a defensive behavior. There is another spider that spits a mixture of poison and sticky glue to catch prey (family Scytodidae,genus Scytodes), by actually squeezing its prosoma (cephalothorax) using internal muscle contraction and squirting out this mixture in a zigzag pattern that sticks its prey to the ground and paralyzes it.  However, the Green Lynx spider apparently only spits venom when attacked.
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   GREEN LYNX              THE USUAL LEVEL                 MORNING  AFTER FAY                 JUMPING SPIDER                 HEY!  GET A ROOM!
Some of you may be aware that tropical storm Fay briefly threatened my home. While there was some flooding of nearby areas, it was not as bad as the damage that Allison wrought last year.  My significant other happens to live in Galveston, though, and she got to watch as the water steadily got higher Friday night. I went out  there Saturday, and the water was still a bit higher than usual. The two pictures above show the change.  THE USUAL LEVEL was taken last November. The MORNING AFTER FAY was taken at about 10:30 am Saturday, Sept. 7th. The rest of the day was excellent.
Inhabitants of Texas are familiar with "love bugs", those black insects that--to quote an old airlines ad--"fly united". The scientific name for them is plecia nearctica Hardy, and they are mainly annoying. The bodies of these insects are acidic. Clouds of these were flying around Donna's house.  I decided to take my camera and look around her house for some spiders, which I'd seen before. I wasn't disappointed. There were quite a few of them foraging. Donna and I spent some time watching their antics.  I noticed two jumping spiders about 4 feet apart that were attacking the love bugs (yay!). The one on the left seemed to be catching and eating them, while the one on the right was catching them and "spitting them out". I got a pretty good macro shot of one of them (see JUMPING SPIDER, above).  Note the huge center pair of eyes. See how he seems to be looking up at me, and daring me to try something? They're pretty feisty.  I was able to get a short clip of one spider making a successful attack and then dropping its prey (the "spitting it out" spider) . HEY, GET A ROOM (above) is from this clip. To see the clip, click here. (flv video 365 kb).

March 16, 2003 Okay. I'm sure that repeat visitors to the RICKUBISCAM are wondering: "Rick? What about the SPIDERS?"
Well. For one thing, it's still actually winter. But, here on the RICKUBISCAM page, that doesn't matter. Last Wednesday, I noticed something that was apparently floating above my dining room table.  Closer inspection showed it to be a spider--in a web!  (See 8- LEGGED WINTER VISITOR, below).  Well, of course I had to take a few pictures. After all, it's not every day that an orb web appears over your table.  My visitor appears to be a "Garden", or "Cross"  Spider. (Araneus diadematus.)  While I was looking at the spider, it started moving around the web (see WEBWALKING, below).  Meanwhile, I was trying to focus on it, so I could use the picture to identify it (see ANOTHER SHOT, below).  Identification was difficult, since the spider's markings and appearance were hard to see. Why? Well, the last picture (RICK AND THE VISITOR, below) shows the tip of my index finger with the spider, for scale. Kind of difficult to see, wouldn't you agree?  Since this photo session, the spider has moved on.
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8-LEGGED WINTER VISITOR          WEBWALKING                    ANOTHER SHOT           RICK AND THE VISITOR

April 06, 2003 I've been watching the trails for signs of new spiders.  Finally, as the pictures below (YEP, THAT'S SMALL shows,  I found some.

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                             YEP, THAT'S SMALL
It was very difficult to tell what kind they might be. The object in the lower left of the picture is a QUARTER! That's right, a 25-cent piece.  That's a pretty small spider! I hoped that these might be Golden Silk Spiders (Nephila Clavipes), but it's too early for those to appear. They might be Black and Yellow Argiopes (Argiope Aurantia) though.  Here are more pictures of them (see below).  There was just no way to tell what kind of organism the spiders were eating (see WHAT'S IT EATING, below).  That image also shows the spider's underside. The webs, at first glance, seemed to be random collections of strands, but closer inspection showed that there were orb webs (about 2 inches across) in amongst the strands. I didn't notice any obvious stabilimenta (those zig-zag patterns that argiopes make in their webs), either. A comparison of two pictures (WAITING FOR FOOD--taken 04/06/2003, and ADULT ARGIOPE--taken 7/14/2002 ) shows some possible resemblance in the color patterns, but the physiological details are just too small to see and compare.
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WHAT'S IT EATING?   DON'T NEED MONEY!   WAITING FOR FOOD      ADULT ARGIOPE          QUARTERBACK
 

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              N                      BIG TROUBLE                          LEG SECTIONS
Why don't spiders get stuck on their own web when they walk on it?
Spiders have 8 "walking legs". These each have 7 segments. The picture above (BIG TROUBLE) shows the last of these segments, the tarsus. (in order from the outer end, the segments are: tarsus, metatarsus, tibia, patella, femur, trochanter, and coxa; click on the LEG SECTIONS image above to see 640 x 480 image). All spiders have claws (two or three) at the end of the outermost segment (see CLAWS FROM THE SIDE, below). The Nephila Clavipes (and other spiders who hunt by using a hanging web), uses an interesting method to walk on its web. The two "main claws" (which have serrations on them) are not used for this at all (see CLAW FROM UNDER). Instead, there is a smaller, smooth claw between these two larger hooks. Look closely at the first two pictures, and the RICKUBISCAM, and you'll see that the large claws are not holding the web at all.
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CLAW FROM THE SIDE  CLAW FROM UNDER
This claw can fold in and back out. There are also two stiff hairs alongside this claw. The spider, when it wants to grasp its web, puts the web between the folding claw and the two hairs, so the hairs are on one side of the web, and the claw is on the other. The claw then folds in, and presses the strand of web against the two hairs. This pressure slightly bends the web across the hairs, and allows the spider to hold onto it. To release, the spider relaxes the muscles which pull the hook, and the web springs back out. The next time you see a spider walking its web, note how only the very tips of its legs touch the web.
As I've noted before, I've used: The Biology of Spiders, by Rainer F. Foelix, published in 1996, as a reference.

August 07, 2003  WHAT ABOUT the 3 pictures (POKEGAST, below)?  As visitors to my pages may have noticed, I wear a vest with lots of pockets most of the time (I suppose this is similar to what's known as a "forager's vest").  I have a number of these vests, and if one gets wet, or muddy, I immediately change into another one. Today, August 10th, I was transferring the contents of all my pockets to a clean, dry vest.  I'd spent a couple of hours smashing rice plants down with the ARGO on Creekfield Lake, and all my clothes had gotten pretty wet. As I checked my pockets one last time for small items, I found a smallish, pointy lump. I just assumed that it was a seed pod or something botanical that had fallen into my pocket during my rice argoing. When I tossed it, I watched out of curiosity as it fell. And then I noticed legs. So, I picked it back up, and put it into a small plastic vial that I had (um...yeah, in one of my pockets.)  Later, at a local Starbucks (where I do a large amount of my page editing, since I use the broadband), I set up my little tripod (from another pocket) and my macro slide; and on one of their tables, I took these pictures.  This is a spider commonly known by the rather ungainly name of "Crablike Spiny Orb-Weaver", and also known as Gasteracantha cancriformis. It's rather common at the park, and I thought I'd already showcased this critter on my pages, but I haven't. The web is orb-shaped, and can be identified by tiny tufts of silk on the web. These tufts look something like tiny dustballs stuck to some of the strands. I've photographed these before, but never this closely. The images below (CENTERED, and WEAVING) were taken September 01, 2002.  The first picture shows some of those tufts of silk.  Also, here (811kb flv video) is a clip that I took on the same day, of a Crablike Spiny Orb-Weaver weaving its orb web. If you look carefully, you'll see it touch each support strand with its spinnarets and string the cross strand.
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    POKEGAST TOP        POKEGAST W/ FINGER    POKEGAST FRONT        CENTERED IN WEB    WEAVING THE ORB
I don't like moving the animals from where they live, but since this one had fallen into my pocket somehow, I already had a subject. The middle image (W/FINGER) shows the tip of my index finger with the gasteracantha. The last image (FRONT) shows it sitting in the palm of my hand.  There's no telling how long the poor thing had been in my pocket. I discovered it was still alive while I was photographing it, though, so I released it outside in some garden plants, and wished it well.

October 04, 2003  About 50 miles south of Houston is the town of Lake Jackson.  While I was there,  I found a wilderness trail, a small park, and did a little exploring. While I was there, I found some of my arachnid friends, the Nephila Clavipes. But, as this was about 9:00 am, I was able to see the sun shining through a number of other spider webs as well, and also I found a lot of Crablike Spiny Orb Weavers; also known as Gasteracantha cancriformis.
I've shown a white one here before, and thought that I'd show that they vary in color. So, there's a yellow and a red one shown here.
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         YELLOW                             RED                        SPIDER SIZE                   FULL WEB                CENTER WEB
These spiders don't get very big (see SPIDER SIZE, above) as my index finger shows. The web is usually marked with tufts of silk, as shown in the fourth picture (FULL WEB, above) with the tufts on the edges of the web. Also note the circular center web. The other web shows the tufts near the center (CENTER WEB, above), and see how there's an open space (no cross strands) in the center, where the spider is?  It was nice to enjoy the quieter pace of Lake Jackson for the day.

November 17, 2003  This morning, it started raining just as I pulled into the park.  However, that doesn't mean that I couldn't find evidence of hunting around me anyway. The image below (HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?) shows what must have seemed like a very lopsided battle with a surprise ending. The small, round spider is probably a Common House Spider (Achaearanea tepidariorum).  These are generally the culprits who make those tangled cobwebs in corners. Unlike some of our other spiders (like the Nephila Clavipes, or Golden Silk Spider), this spider appears to suck the softened bodily fluids from small holes in the exoskeleton of its prey. From what I can find, this is a female, and she is extremely full. The three images below (EATING 01,02,03) are closeup views of her as she daintily takes her meal.
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  HOW DID *THIS* HAPPEN?              EATING 01                               EATING 02                              EATING 03                        CCREVICE WEAVER
The larger spider is kind of hard to identify, but from the position of the legs, and by the general appearance, I'm pretty sure it's part of that rather large group of spiders that are sometimes known as Aranea Mortuus---or Dead Spider.
Update 11/19/03--Ok, I thought the dead spider thing was funny. But, I started wondering about what kind of spider this might actually have been before it became an "aranea mortuus". It's probably the same type that we've seen with their sparse webbing around various notholes and crevices both inside and outside the VC/NC at Brazos Bend State Park. Since I didn't take any pictures of the dead spider's face, I'm only guessing though. I think that I'm looking at a Southern House Spider (according to "A Field Guide to Spiders and Scorpions of Texas, by John A. Jackman); also known as Kukulcania hibernalis (Or perhaps in this case "Kukulcania hibernalis mortuus? HA!). In the image "CREVICE WEAVER" above; strands of the webbing are visible to the right. This spider will spin a sort of open "funnel" into a hole or crevice, with the loose flat strands radiating out around this hideout. Passing prey can walk upon these tripwires, which will alert the spider to run out and attack. I took this picture September of 2002, when the spider was next to one of our windows at the VC/NC.  The eyes of this spider are supposed to be close together, but I haven't inspected one in enough detail to tell. The female is the large (13-19mm), dark one I have pictured. The male is about half this size (9-10mm), with a generally thinner body that is lighter in color.
Now that we're looking at it, why do spiders' legs curl up like that when they die? Well, that's pretty interesting. As in the past, I went to the book Biology of Spiders, by Rainer F. Foelix, published in 1996 for an answer.  Spiders' legs, as I've mentioned before, are composed of seven segments. That means that there are six articulations, or joints between them (see LEG SEGMENTS, below).  For general body part names, see BODY PARTS, below.  Although I used the Folix book for a reference while I made these images, any mistakes that may be apparent are surely mine.
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                       BODY PARTS                           LEG SEGMENTS                       HYDRAULIC PUMP
Now, most animals have two sets of opposing muscles that operate their joints. Flexors, which bend them, and extensors, which straighten them. In the spider leg, with six joints, there are two joints which do NOT have extensor muscles (from the tip of the leg, this is joint number 2, and joint number 4. see HYDRAULIC PUMP, above). That means that there are no muscles to straighten those joints! How then, can the spider straighten its legs?
While you take a moment to wonder about that, consider that spiders not only possess an exoskeleton (the "armor"), but they also have a sort of endoskeleton, or inner structural supports as well. They are called "endosterna". These serve as attachment points for certain muscle groups (entosternal muscles).
Largest of the structures of this endoskeleton is shallow cuplike construction that sort of bisects the cephalothorax (prosoma) horizontally. This is called the "endosternite". There are groups of muscles that attach this structure to the carapace (upper surface) and sternum  (lower surface) of the prosoma. The picture I made above shows these in VERY simplified form. If you are interested, find the book and look at the professional version.  These muscles can move the endosternite, which can lower the volume inside the cephalothorax. Doing this can increase the fluid pressure inside the spider. This is similar to you squeezing a toothpaste tube which lowers the volume, which increases the pressure, and forces the toothpaste out .  This increase in fluid pressure acts like a hydraulic pump; and this is what extends the second and fourth leg joints. Without the pressure the legs will fold, if the muscles contract, and stay folded.
While this seems like an odd arrangement to me, spiders were here long before I was, so glitches in the design must have been worked out by now.  Pretty complicated creatures...these "simple", "primitive" spiders.

November 23, 2003  Occasionally, I am able to find the creature I wanted to see, and take photos of it. Today was such an occassion. A cold front was due to hit the park around noon today, dropping the temperature at least 20 degrees (that's from around 70F to 50F for you northerners), with more severe drops overnight. I'd hoped to be able to find a few spiders before they were possibly killed by a freeze. My target today was the Southern House Spider (Kukulcania hibernalis), which has webs all over the VC/NC--both inside and outside the building. I found a willing subject in our Volunteer Lounge.
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     WHO'S OUT HERE?                    LEFT FRONT LEG                       HER CHARMING FACE                        HER SIZE
She was poised outside her hole, but when I turned on the lights. she went inside. Some gentle probing persuaded her to come back out, and I took a lot of pictures. The picture below (STRETCHED OUT) shows a good full-body picture, as she started moving back towards her funnel. WHO'S OUT THERE (above) shows her coming out of the hole. Note the widely-spaced web strands, and the loose funnel of her home that is visible in some of these images (and the clips). The next image, LEFT FRONT (above) shows a closer view of the left leg in the first image. The two claws at the end of the leg are visible. HER CHARMING FACE (above) shows the long pedipalps (appendages in front of the head), and the eyes arranged in a close group. The whiteness of some of the eyes is due to reflection from the camera flash. When possible, I like to show something with the spider for scale, and HER SIZE (above) shows her with a quarter.  Through all of this, she was very cooperative. The sunken condition of her abdomen probably shows that she hasn't eaten for a while, though.  I took a view short clips with the digital camera, also. The images below are a single frame from each clip, and clicking the image will show the clip. The first one (CHECKING THE WEB) shows her pulling on the strands of the web. The second one (GOING BACK HOME) shows her as she decides she's had enough photography. I was using a flashlight for illumination so the lighting shifts a lot.

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   ---------     CHECKING THE WEB (flv video 329 kb)              STRETCHED OUT                          GOING BACK HOME (flv video 253 kb)

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