A Porch-full of Spiders

[Tom Hook]

Our front porch is teeming with spiders both small and large. Here are three of the larger ones found there:

1. Nursery Web Spider taken at night using a flash.
2. Grass spider on turkey feathers that I collected in our yard and left on the porch.
3. Dark Fisher Spider (this female is the largest one I've seen, spanning two inches or more between the tips of its opposing legs.) This spider does not build a web but simply waits for dinner to come within striking distance.

[Peter Connan]

Some beautiful spiders Tom.

Very impressed that you managed accurate focus on the first one!

[Tom Hook]

Peter,

Thanks for commenting.

The Nursery Web Spider photo was also illuminated by a porch light which allowed me to see well enough in the finder to focus, and the on camera flash did the rest. Sometimes things work out!

Tom