Crab Spider

[Jiva Sztraka]

This was taken few hours ago, just with 100mm macro and built-in flash (still awaiting money to fund a better flash rig and some extension tubes).

http://static.flickr.com/113/285539346_4a6d7e70f6.jpg
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=285539346&size=l

Thanks for looking.

Jiva

[Mary Bull]

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=285539346&size=l

Thanks for looking.

Jiva
It was a pleasure. What a great photo of this little spider!

BTW, What flower is that? It's the color of an iris, but far too small. Resembles a spiderwort, to my eye. See at link below--scroll down below the photo of the children to their image of the spiderwort:

http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Wildflowers/Project/wild2.html
http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Wildflowers/Project/02.gif
Or perhaps a species of lobelia, which grows wild in Kentucky, also.:

http://www.lib.ksu.edu/wildflower/bluelobelia.html
http://www.lib.ksu.edu/wildflower/wildflower3/bluelobelia3.jpg


Do you have anything like these in Australia, Jiva?

Mary

[Jiva Sztraka]

Thanks for nice comments :)

Unfortunately I don't know too much about flowers, and would have to get a botanist friend of mine to identify the flowers next time I see him. Although they're fairly common around these parts (tropical Queensland).

Jiva

[Mary Bull]

Ah, okay. Well, when you get a chance to ask him, please post back to me here.

I had a very thorough grounding in my 1-year undergraduate course in botany. Sometimes I wish I had pursued it further--it's such an interest to me in my old age.

My professor had a degree from Cornell University.

On the other hand, I know next to nothing about entymology, beyond general amateur reading. But I do love to look at the insects and small arthropods around me. Such a varied, multiformed world we do live in!

Thanks again for your crab spider.

Mary