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hibbing

(10,402 posts) Sun Sep 15, 2019, 09:11 PM Sep 2019

Common garden spider in action...graphic warning

I just lucked out, once again I wish I would have had a real camera. I thought this was pretty cool with the spider wrapping the beetle up for a snack? All of my flowers are covered in bees and I think soldier beetles.

I believe I can see the webbing being shot out.

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Common garden spider in action...graphic warning (Original Post) hibbing Sep 2019 OP

As a kid it was great intertaiment Chipper Chat Sep 2019 #1

I just spotted one of these spiders in my garden. femmocrat Sep 2019 #2

spiders are cool NJCher Oct 2019 #3

Black and Yellow Garden Spider arachadillo Nov 2019 #4

Chipper Chat

(10,027 posts)

1. As a kid it was great intertaiment

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Sun Sep 15, 2019, 11:27 PM

Sep 2019

To toss carpenter ants into their webs and watch them attack and quarantine their next meal.

femmocrat

(28,394 posts)

2. I just spotted one of these spiders in my garden.

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Mon Sep 16, 2019, 09:02 AM

Sep 2019

I don’t think I’ve seen one since I was a kid. They make a zig-zag pattern in their web.

NJCher

(37,868 posts)

3. spiders are cool

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Sat Oct 12, 2019, 10:40 PM

Oct 2019

they can always find a safe home at my house.

arachadillo

(123 posts)

4. Black and Yellow Garden Spider

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Sun Nov 17, 2019, 06:00 PM

Nov 2019

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The black and yellow garden spider ranks as one of the most common garden spiders across the country.

Quite the coincidence. I also got a picture of one spitting silk out of the spineretts onto a bee. it was when I first started out in photography and was very excited to get an action pick.

If you get a more advanced camera, the best advise is to learn about shutter speed. Being able to set the shutter speed will enable you to capture an image in the blink of an eye. So, for example, set to 1600, the eye would blink in 1/1600 of a second.

Green Nature

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