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Fouche | all galleries >> Galleries >> Insects and Bugs > Widow Maker
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04-OCT-2003 Stephen P. Fouche

Widow Maker

A Black Widow that I found this afternoon under a drain culvert. I placed her on a table
to photograph her and she quickly decided that she wanted down, so she scurried off the table,
spun a thread down right between my legs, and was halfway down before I even knew it. Took
about 10 years off my life, but she did stay suspended long enough to get a quick shot.

If you look carefully, you can see the silk thread gripped in one of her legs and being
spun from her abdomen.

Canon EOS 10D ,Sigma 50mm f/2.8 EX Macro
1/79s f/16.0 at 50.0mm iso200 with Flash full exif

other sizes: small medium original auto
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