Pics from the park

[jbm150]

Let me first say that my pics will be nowhere near as good as those in other posts so forgive me for that. I just don't have the camera for that (I have a Canon Powershot SX100 IS which has a great zoom for a P&C but terrible macros) Also, I am hoping if anyone bears through the graininess, they may be able to help me ID some of these critters. I took these from a park not far from my house in South Florida:

Orchard spider Leucauge venusta

Golden silk orbweaver Nephila clavipes

She's feeding on a large beetle

These are one of my favorite (non T) spiders

Sooty dancers mating Argia lugens

Long-tailed skipper Urbanus proteus

These webs are everywhere, big hammock, lots of leaves, don't know what kind of spider

Here's the lady of the house, some sort of orb weaver
Any help?

Same species, smaller individual

Silver argiope Argiope argentata

She had a neat habit of "tucking" her abdomen when I got closer

I think this is a brown widow egg sac Latrodectus geometricus
No female would come out

Paper wasps Polistes annularis

I hope someone can tell me what I'm looking at here...

Another unknown orb weaver, any ideas?

She was defensive and would threat pose if I got close

Some...thing...

Brown anole Anolis segrei saying goodbye

Thanks for checking out the pics, I'm really getting the photography bug...for bugs...ok, bad pun

 

[bluefrogtat2]

great pics i love the n.clavipes- amazing
andy

 

[TheDarkInfinity]

Awesome pics!! I believe the one in the palm frond is a Eriophora ravilla, Tropical Orbweaver. I am not sure about the one in the hammock.

 

[jbm150]

Thanks guys for the compliments. I posted the two unknown spider pics in the true spider forum and we figured out that the hammock spider was a tropical tent spider Cyrtophora citricola or a very closely related species. Pretty cool, its a non-native, communal spider thats only recently been found in florida. And yes indeed, the second seems to be Eriophora ravilla. I've been checking more palms in different locations but I've yet to find anymore.

 

[zonbonzovi]

Great finds! If it weren't for the retirement communities, oppressive humidity, my relatives & Disney, I'd move back. Those N. clavipes are fantastic!