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Hey all.
I'd firstly like to say i found a Salticus Scenicus, healthy, good size and inquisitive enough to know what the camera lens is, so i'll have some high magnification shots of him in the next week or so, can't wait since it's been months since i have came across one !! But more about that later, for now i want to talk about this 'spider'.
I found this 5mm crab spider under the same rock as the beetles, it's like the rock is manufacturing interesting things for me to photograph recently... He was walking sideways to get away from me, so i knew it was a crab spider ( hence the name ) and i wondered what eye structure it had, and since i have never seen anyone on Flickr produce high mag photos of these spiders i thought i'd give it a go...
Again i shoot live insects so he fussed a lot and ran away - this always frustrates me but i manages to keep my cool and eventually after an hour i got 12 photos worth stacking, this is the finished product above. I used photoshop to stack the images and increase Contrast/Vividness/Colour to help it's features stand out.
It's eye structure is not nearly as impressive as a jumping spiders, but i think i'll keep investigating these spiders as he seemed very aware of his surroundings and was quite instinctive when i shone the light on him to find shade as quickly s possible as they have eyes much more sensitive to ours and more of them.
I will continue my search for an interesting Crab Spider known as the White Crab Spider (Thomisidae) which i am sure is in the UK.
If you look below you can get an idea of how small this guy was and some other photos of him being very still for the camera !
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Here's a larger image of the above ; www.flickr.com/photos/sequentialmacro/6796352718/sizes/l/...
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