A few pics of finnish spiders

[Sam]

Okay.. just thought to post pics of some finnish spiders
All pictures were taken with Canon PowerShot A80, June - July 04

Here we go...


Dolomedes fimbriatus LS 3-4cm:

Delicious mosquitos

Pirata piraticus LS ~1cm:

Lycosidae sp. LS ~1cm

Scared, trying to dive or something...

Playing dead ?

Just posing, notice fang

Lycosidae sp. LS ~2cm?

Lycosidae sp.

Such a proud mother

Lycosidae sp. with eggsack LS ~1cm

What are you staring at?

Lycosidae sp. LS ~2cm

Salticus scenicus LS ~1cm

Unidentified orb weaver(?) LS ~1cm

Unidentified orb weaver LS ~1cm

Okay, thats it.. I think

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[conway]

very nice makes me wanna go for a collecting trip! there great photos and nice spiders, did you capture any?

 

[Freddie]

And those all were of course on my backyard... *grin*

Still good pics Sameli

 

[Brian S]

Awesome pictures!!!!!!! You all have some cool spiders in Finland. "They probably get REAL COOL in the winter there"

 

[sunnymarcie]

Sameli nice to see you post here too

Great pictures very similar to some US spiders

 

[Alex S.]

Great true spider pictures! I agree, it makes me want to go on a collecting trip as well!

Alex S.

 

[pronty]

Good work Sameli

you do know that now we want more, more MORE! ;P

I've seen some of those spiders myself not recently though

 

[Crotalus]

Great pix! And post more please!
Amazing how beautiful our native species can be, just need a magnifying glass to be able to see them (except the Dolomedes offcourse)... ;-)

/Lelle

 

[eksong]

stunning pictures, I had no idea the A80 could get so close!

 

[Sam]

Hehe, thanks for all of the replies...


...and Conway... nope, I didnt captured any of them, just took photograph and thats it

Oh... and Pekka, nice pictures :}

More pics you can find here http://www.netikka.net/saman/index.php?gallery=./Arachnids