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26-JUL-2007 İAlexander Dudley 2007

Long-jawed spiders, Tetragnathidae

Gungarre, Kakadu

It is rare to see spiders mating, but obviously they must do it a lot, as there are a lot of them. I was fortunate enought to get
this photo showing the nuts and bolts of the process- the male (on the right) is putting his sperm-laden palp into her gynecium.
This almost qualifies as a Queensland Beer rated picture.

Nikon D200 ,Nikkor 60mm f/2.8D AF Micro
1/200s f/18.0 at 60.0mm iso100, manual flash and slave full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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