Spiders of Australia - massive picture-post

[El Johano]

Hey folks!
Thought I’d share some of the spider-photos from my trip to Australia a while ago…..

Nephila ornata
Sydney

Misgolas sp?
Blue mountains

Heteropoda sp.?
Port Macquarie

Holconia immanis?
Port Macquarie

Eriophora sp.
Port Macquarie

Heteropoda sp.?
Port Macquarie

Dark form of Delena cancerides?
Cathedral national park

Heteropoda sp.?
Fraser Island

Dionopis sp., note the ’fishing net’ they throw over their prey
Fraser Island

Freshly moulted Heteropoda sp.?
Fraser Island

Misgolas sp.?
Fraser Island

Fishing spider
Eungella national park

Holconia immanis, this one was huge! Clearly bigger than the “H. immanis” in the hobby (which I believe to be H. insignis).
Eungella national park

Latrodectus hasselti
Broken river

Unknown….
Atherton tablelands

Argiope aetherea
Atherton tablelands

Trapdoor species
Wooroonooran national park

Nephila maculata
Daintree

Unknown….
Daintree

Lycosa sp? See the spiderlings on her back?
Katherine

Badumna insignis
Lake St Clair national park

Delena cancerides
Douglas-Aspley national park

To be continued....(and yes, there will be funnelwebs...)

 

[P. Novak]

wow those are some amazing spiders!!!!!!!!!

Great photography!

 

[BugToxin]

I don't often comment on picture threads like these, but that is some of the tastiest eye candy I have ever seen!!! AWESOME work!!! :clap: :clap: :clap:

 

[bistrobob85]

Wow, now those are high quality pics!!!! Just for the spiders, your trip must really have been something incredible... I LOOOOOOOOVE the pics of the Nephilas ( and a lot of the ''unknown'' too ) !!!!

phil.

 

[GoTerps]

Great photos!

Thanks a lot for sharing them... I look forward to the rest!

 

[heyjeyniceid]

What camera and/or accessories do you use?

 

[El Johano]

Thanks for the kind words

What camera and/or accessories do you use?

I use a Nikon D70 with a Tamron SP 90 2.8 Macro lens and the SB600 flash.

 

[Steven]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW

:drool: :drool: :drool:


very nice :clap:






but i seem to have missed your centipede pictures :?

 

[tmanjim]

very nice shots. did you try to sneak any back?

 

[El Johano]

very nice shots. did you try to sneak any back?

Maybe I did Not any of the ones depicted above though....

 

[Scolopendra55]

Those are great pics! Sweet lookin spiders!

 

[tarcan]

excellent photos, thank you for sharing!

 

[aftershock]

Great pictures Johan! Really nice!

Har du uppdaterat din artlista på zoonen med några roliga kryp från Oz?

 

[El Johano]

Japp, den är uppdaterad

 

[El Johano]

Forgot about this guy...
Arbanitis gracilis
Blue mountains

The trapdoor lid

 

[smof]

These are simply awesome pics! :clap: :worship:

 

[Malkavian]

NICE macro work

 

[T.Raab]

Really great photos. ... i'm speakless

 

[bagheera]

Nice work! Of course I am partial to the Mygalogorphs, did you see any Mouse spiders?

 

[El Johano]

Nice work! Of course I am partial to the Mygalogorphs, did you see any Mouse spiders?

Unfortunately not. I really like them and was hoping to see some, but I couldn't find any. Apparantly their burrow is very well camouflaged.

Did find a bunch of funnelwebs though, there is a recent post with some pics.