Photo Information
| Taken: | 14 August 2007 09:45 near Yorktown, Texas | |
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| Camera: | Olympus C200Z | |
| Exposure: | ISO 100 | |
| 8.7mm, 0 EV | ||
| f/3.6 | ||
| 1/100 |
Backstory
The yellow garden spider is harmless to humans even though her cephalothorax looks very much like a human skull—at least in this picture. I’ve never known anyone to be bitten by one, but I have known lots of people to get freaked out by them. They’re big, fast, and voracious.
There are a lot of bugs to eat on a farm, and I’ve seen one of these babies catch and subdue a full grown gecko that had to outweigh her several times over. She made quick work of it, too.
Garden spiders were thick when I took this picture, which I’m posting even though it’s a little blurry. They were all over the farm, hanging anywhere there was an open space between two solid objects.
–23 May 2012
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