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Subject: [Leica] Albino Spider
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Tue May 31 06:19:20 2005
References: <4299CB27.70105@gmx.de> <429B7D42.10602@summaventures.com> <d975f3cf2c5ec174b318876e05b56a66@cwazy.co.uk>

Fascinating Craig,
mega-thanks for the information
cheers
Douglas

Craig Zeni wrote:

> 
> On May 30, 2005, at 4:53 PM, Peter Dzwig wrote:
> 
>> Douglas Sharp wrote:
>>
>>> I think it's a European Garden Spider turned white. Taken with a 2/50mm
>>> Summicron-R lens, I went back into the house to get my macro lens and 
>>> of course the beast had disappeared by the time I got back, about 1.5 
>>> minutes! All Canon 20D with Leica lenses.
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/Spider_1
>>> and a couple of flowers which have managed to survive the heatwave 
>>> over the last couple of days
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/Garden_1
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/Garden_2
>>> 33 C in the shade yesterday (I make that 91.4 F ,if my school maths 
>>> is correct: divide by 5, multiply by 9 and add 32 I think)
>>> And a re-scanned Yorkshire Rose from many years ago
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/New-Old-Pictures/Roses_1
>>> cheers
>>> Douglas
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>>
>> we had something similar on an Iris the other day, my son found it; 
>> described it as a "glow in the dark spider" because it looked a pale 
>> radium colour - like a luminous watch (old style). Size was much 
>> smaller maybe 5mm across.
> 
> 
>  From an entomologist friend of mine to whom I forwarded the link:
> 
> "Crab spider collected from a white blossom -- they can change to match 
> their
> background.  You ought to see one in a bright yellow flower -- they look
> neon."
> 
> Bugs'r'us
> NC
> 
> 
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In reply to: Message from douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp) ([Leica] Albino Spider)
Message from pdzwig at summaventures.com (Peter Dzwig) ([Leica] Albino Spider)
Message from sdp35 at cwazy.co.uk (Craig Zeni) ([Leica] Albino Spider)