Color Coordinated Spider
by Lois Bryan
Title
Color Coordinated Spider
Artist
Lois Bryan
Medium
Digital Art - Photography
Description
Very pleased that "Color Coordinated Spider" won third place in the 12/8/2022 contest "Show Me Spiders." Many thanks to contest administrator, Jordyn Niemand, and everyone who voted for my image. Congratulations to the other winners!!
Found this adorable little cutie playing among the black-eyed-susans in my garden one morning. I'd seen spiders like this before, but they were all white. This amazing golden color is not a trick of Photoshop.
From Wikipedia:
"Misumena vatia is a species of crab spider with holarctic distribution. In North America, where it is the largest and best-known flower spider, it is called the goldenrod crab spider, because it is commonly found hunting in goldenrod sprays in the autumn.
Young males in the early summer may be quite small and easily overlooked, but females can grow up to 10 mm (without legs); males reach 5 mm at most.
These spiders may be yellow or white, depending on the flower in which they are hunting. Especially younger females, which may hunt on a variety of flowers such as daisies and sunflowers, may change color "at will". Older females require large amounts of relatively large prey to produce the best possible clutch of eggs. They are therefore, in North America, most commonly found in goldenrod (Solidago sp.), a bright yellow flower which attracts large numbers of insects, especially in autumn. It is often very hard even for a searching human to recognize one of these spiders on a yellow flower."
Image taken 9/8/08 with the Nikon D40x, using the 70-300mm VR in Montgomery County, Maryland.
NOT created by using AI - Artificial Intelligence.
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July 1st, 2021
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Comments (19)
Marilyn DeBlock
Wonderful capture, Lois. Congrats on your 3rd place win in the Show me Spiders Contest - voted.
Bob Christopher
Hi Lois…I like your image. An interesting composition and quite effective. Well seen and photographed…Cheers Bob fv
Deborah Strategier
Amazing micro capture! I'm wondering how you ever spotted the little fellow.
Lois Bryan replied:
Thanks, Deborah! I used to spend a lot of time in my garden with my camera ... on the lookout for butterflies!! Every now and then I'd find something different!!
Randy Rosenberger
It is with great pleasure that I announce to you a big congratulations for this chosen piece of your artwork to be on special display on the homepage of our community of friends and fine artists, in our Wisconsin Flowers and Scenery group. I appreciate your activity in our group and want to thank you so much for being an active participant in helping promote other fine artists within the group. Usually in turn, such promotions bring promotions of your artwork into perspective and are featured on our homepage. One good turn deserves another. Your quality, definition, character, and variation in your works bring about a visual pleasure to view and share with others. Thanks for your participation in our family of friends and fine artists in our WFS group.