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Bob
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 Click here to comment on this image. Appeared on our ceiling one night. Apologies for the quality, but it gave me stiff neck  |
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chrisbet
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Nuctenea umbratica AKA walnut orb weaver. Harmless. |
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Eric
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What a beauty! |
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Bob
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chrisbet wrote:Nuctenea umbratica AKA walnut orb weaver. Harmless. I had a look on the web - pardon the pun - and I thought that's what it was.BUT... see this..... https://www.hygienesuppliesdirect.com/blog/the-most-venomous-spiders-in-the-uk I have a terrible image? of a hummingbird hawk moth taken with the Canon powershot ( before I bought the Nikon) -----------  Click here to comment on this image. Needless to say , I haven't seen it again since I bought the Nikon  |
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Eric
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Couldn’t get that link to work, but I presume it’s referring to the Noble False Widow…Steatoda nobilis? We are plagued with them!! Living in a bungalow means all the windows have to be watched. They are actually largely nocturnal. One of the reasons they are so successful…. the birds are asleep when they are most active, plus they also have 3 broods of spiderlings a year! My wife had a nasty encounter a couple of years ago. Whilst pruning in the garden she needed to pop to the loo. One of the disturbed spiders was on her jumper. On the loo, she suddenly saw it crawling about and frantically whacked it off her. She thought she had brushed it away…she had down….. her trousers!!! This is what it did to her ankle as it “fought for its life” getting out of the entrapment of her jeans….  Click here to comment on this image. Took weeks to heal and you can still see slight scarring. Sorry….I make no excuse. I kill the buggers (they are immigrants after all!) when ever I see them. I positively rejoice at seeing good old English spiders inside and outside the house.  |
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chrisbet
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Hi Eric - pesky full stop attached to link - now removed so the link works. Bob, I think they are overstating (to sell their repellant?) - yes the spider will bite if threatened but the effect is minimal. |
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Eric
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chrisbet wrote:Hi Eric - pesky full stop attached to link - now removed so the link works. Posts crossed…but the impact of a bite is very much down to the persons immune system. My sister who lives in Guildford was bitten by one and she developed Vasculitis from it! They don’t like to stay overnight at our place any more…………….but mainly due to my cooking |
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Eric
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chrisbet wrote:Hi Eric - pesky full stop attached to link - now removed so the link works. With sprays you have to be careful you don’t kill the non invasive species. The false widow makes a diaphanous thick web around structures as opposed to the trapeze like suspensions of the good guys. Spraying the webs is more selective…and just as effective at getting them to jump ship. They drop like stones on a thread and play dead….but they are not!! I spray under the window sills and it’s like the Libyan embassy assault by the SAS…..abseiling down in groups.(without the stun grenades lol) |
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Bob
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Here's the linkfrom the address bar https://www.hygienesuppliesdirect.com/blog/the-most-venomous-spiders-in-the-uk |
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Bob
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Eric wrote:Couldn’t get that link to work, but I presume it’s referring to the Noble False Widow…Steatoda nobilis? The link works on our computers here. "our" spider isn't one of those - the noble false widow's legs aren't alternately markedlight/dark.re the bite- looks horrible :( |
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Bob
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A couple more shots after I had removed it from the ceiling this lunchtime - it was over the table !! Click here to comment on this image. Taken with the 105mm Nikkor Micro  Click here to comment on this image. Seriously ugly  |
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chrisbet
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Not pretty at all ... The pic could be enhanced by focus stacking to lose the out of focus legs ... |
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Eric
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chrisbet wrote:Not pretty at all ... Only if it stays still. He could put it in the fridge for a few hours…that will stop it moving for a while. Lol i think it’s quite handsome! |
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Bob
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chrisbet wrote:Not pretty at all ... err.. wot? |
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chrisbet
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Focus stacking - taking a series of photos focussing on different "planes" through the subject and then using focus stacking software which takes the sharpest bits from each of the photos and combines them into one image - effrectively increasing the dof. Eg this one taken with my old D90 camera on tripod manually focussed on rear flowers and then successive photos taken while slowly turning the focus ring until the front flower was in focus - about 11 photos in all if I remember right.  Click here to comment on this image. Or this one taken with a reversed lens to get macro --  Click here to comment on this image. |
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Bob
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chrisbet wrote:Focus stacking - taking a series of photos focussing on different "planes" through the subject and then using focus stacking software which takes the sharpest bits from each of the photos and combines them into one image - effrectively increasing the dof. Fiendish - but isn't it cheating? - I suppose not if you are selling photographs for a living. I will investigate this. |
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