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This is the Cucumber Green Spider Araniella cucurbitina sensu lato.
All Green – Cucumber Green
x1 image. x2 focus stacked. Double click to enlarge.
This is the Cucumber Green Spider Araniella cucurbitina sensu lato.
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A pretty little thing – great shot, Pete!
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Thank you, Eliza 🙂
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It’s a pretty little thing. At first I thought it was a crab spider, but I see it’s an orb weaver, and I don’t think crab spiders weave webs. I usually see them just lurking about.
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Crab spiders don’t weave webs as you say, but they like to wander and chase their prey, or wait for it to just drop in their laps.
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What an incredibly cool-looking spider, Pete. I definitely have never seen one that color.
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Many thanks, Mike 🙂 I am lucky to have a few green species here.
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Very nice!
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Thank you 🙂
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Lovely and sharp! He must have been hard to spot.
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Thank you! The x2 focus stack helped me a lot with this 🙂
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Yes, a very narrow depth of field with macro, lucky he stayed still for you!
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Delicately coloured and fleshy looking.
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Thank you, Anne 🙂
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Excellent capture of this vegetable namesake spider, Pete!
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Thank you, Indira 🙂
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One of your best macros yet (in my opinion). 🙂
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Thank you very much, Vicki 🙂
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Cool! I don’t think I’ve seen a green spider. Of course my memory leaves a lot to be desired. You’ve got quite the collection of insect species in your yard, Pete.
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Many thanks, Steve! I only have a small yard, but I am lucky to have so many small visitors 🙂
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Very nice, crisp shot, Peter. And an interesting body on that fellow looking so much like the leaf.
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Thank you, Ellen! Difficult to get it all in focus in one photo, thus the focus stack helped a lot 🙂
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You certainly made it work. I’ve not tried the focus stacking process but would like to.
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I only tried it for the first time myself a few weeks ago, and photoshop does a pretty good job of aligning and merging, and its all automated, so makes for easy 🙂
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I noticed that your first two commenters both used the phrase “pretty little thing”. I don’t know that I’d use the word “pretty”, other than to say you did a pretty good job getting so much sharp through focus stacking.
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Thank you, Steve. You have a chance provided the critters keep still 🙂
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Great shot! Do you think that is full of eggs or does she naturally have a fat butt!! :>)
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Thank you, Dwight 🙂 That is the nature of this beast 🙂
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Wow! Interesting!
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I can’t believe how much it looks like what it’s eating … same color and pattern! Great shot!
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Thank you, Denise 🙂 The green spiders are always quite something to see.
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