My backyard field trip

Steve Nunn

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Hi,
I guess I'm kind of lucky in where I live, in the Wet Tropics of Nth Qld, nothing beats having therpahosids breeding in your own yard ;)

Anyhow, here is the worlds largest orb weaver, Nephila pilipes piscatorum , this one is at about 19cm legspan, really awesome to see. There were about 4 other species living in the web, as well as a prospective male!!









Cheers,
Steve
 
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Crotalus

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Very nice pix of a nice spider! Now Im expecting to see some nice close ups of taipans and salties! ;)
 

Texas Blonde

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Wow! Thats such a beautiful spider. Thanks for the great pics, definatly an awesome contribution to this budding forum.

And your right, its hard to beat Theraphosids breeding in the backyard! :D

/Sky
 

sammyp

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Very nice piccies, mate. Actually, I've seriously been considering a trip to oz at some point to check out the local fauna.. and of course to find out if there really are Yowie's wandering around the outback...:D

Cheers,
Sam
 

Sheri

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19 cms!

That's incredible!

I have backyard envy and an arachnid inferiority complex now. ;)

Stunning picturs, though, honest. Would be awesome to see those one day.
 

Steve Nunn

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Thanks guys, you can see she's eating a sand wasp, some arachnid revenge ;) Here's another little fellow from the backyard, Mopsus mormon:



Steve
 

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cool jumper...almost looks like a jumping peucetia viridans :D
 

Steve Nunn

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Eastern Water Dragon in the creek out behind our backyard:



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Steve Nunn

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We get lots of the typical big gree tree frogs, but here was a rarer one, something I couldn't ID, definate tree frog of some variety, rescued from the downstairs laundry area:



Steve
 

sammyp

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I want that backyard!!:D Lovely photo's. I especially like the jumpers. Do you get many varieties out there?
 

Sheri

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The green-eyed jumper - nice that you were able to focus on the eyes.

Often, when I shoot macro, it focuses on the area I would prefer to be blurry.

Like with a snake - the body is sharp and the head is fuzzy and so on.

Very nice work. :)
 

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Sheri said:
The green-eyed jumper - nice that you were able to focus on the eyes.
Yeah, you can see Steve Nunn in them. How Escherian... :)

Nice pics of some interesting critters, thanks for sharing and don't stop there!
 

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Very cool stuff, Steve. I really like the water dragon. I think I'll call him Mr. Burns. {D
 

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Steve Im disapointed.. where are the Hexathelidae? :D

That Nephila pilipes piscatorum is very impressive! Does it only occur in Australia? How large do they get and how big is the web she sits in?
 
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