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Pirate Gold
e6filmuser
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Maybe copper.
I was searching among some stacked logs, looking for macro subjects, when I saw this cocoon dangling for its thread. Only when I framed it in the viewfinder did I realise that the egg cocoon had metallic-like threads. I had not seen one like it before.
I now know that this is of one of two species of pirate Spider, Ero sp., of which two similar species are widespread in England. This genus is the only representative of the spider family Mimetidae in northern Europe. The spiders are nocturnal and tug on the webs of other spiders to entice them out to be caught and eaten.
EM-1, Schneider HM 40mm reversed on Kiron x 1.5 TC and extension, f16, twin diffused RC TTL flash, hand-held.
The image is uncropped. There is quite a lot of pixel overload from the flash.
Harold
I was searching among some stacked logs, looking for macro subjects, when I saw this cocoon dangling for its thread. Only when I framed it in the viewfinder did I realise that the egg cocoon had metallic-like threads. I had not seen one like it before.
I now know that this is of one of two species of pirate Spider, Ero sp., of which two similar species are widespread in England. This genus is the only representative of the spider family Mimetidae in northern Europe. The spiders are nocturnal and tug on the webs of other spiders to entice them out to be caught and eaten.
EM-1, Schneider HM 40mm reversed on Kiron x 1.5 TC and extension, f16, twin diffused RC TTL flash, hand-held.
The image is uncropped. There is quite a lot of pixel overload from the flash.
Harold
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Brian V.
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Thanks, Brian.
These cocoons become more numerous later in the summer. They are abandoned by the mother.
Harold