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Hatch1921
26th of April 2006 (Wed), 20:45
This was something to see... the spider was at battle with the ant... the ant becomes the meal. AMAZING! Just by luck I caught the movement of the spider. So small!!! It would circle the ant and spin the web. I have several more shots to go through... just a few for now. Tiny ant and spider :D

Canon 20D
Canon 100mm macro
Canon 1.4x II TC
All 3 extension tubes
F/11- F/16
ISO 400
Flash set to ETTL +3
Camera Raw
1/200th a sec


The fight for life is on...

http://www.psxtras.com/posted/canon/spider/03.jpg

The spider was able to wrap the ant and leave it for a minute... once the ant started to move... it moved the ant closer to where it was staying. There was another dead ant in the area... I will post a shot of that later.


http://www.psxtras.com/posted/canon/spider/04.jpg

Securing its meal.

http://www.psxtras.com/posted/canon/spider/05.jpg

More web...

Very cool to see all this take place. :)

http://www.psxtras.com/posted/canon/spider/06.jpg

Hope you like the shots. I had fun taking them.

Hatch
Athena
27th of April 2006 (Thu), 01:00
Wow - the trials of life on such a micro scale. These are wonderful Hatch.
chemicalbro
27th of April 2006 (Thu), 01:01
very interesting series hatch...... I love behaviour shots like these...
Leorooster
27th of April 2006 (Thu), 01:03
Excellent series. Very well done!
JoseC
27th of April 2006 (Thu), 01:12
Woderfull pics!!!
Looks like the spider glued the ant with silk.
Jose
LordV
27th of April 2006 (Thu), 01:21
Amazing series hatch- beautifully shot as well.
Brian v.
dpastern
27th of April 2006 (Thu), 03:42
Great work Hatch, well spotted and captured!

Dave
melvynyeo
27th of April 2006 (Thu), 07:11
Excellent!!! Very well compose and very sharp! Lovely :D:D:D
Hatch1921
27th of April 2006 (Thu), 10:41
Thank you all very much :) Glad you enjoyed the series. I think I have a couple more I can post. To see the spider make quick work of the ant was amazing to say the least. The only real trouble I had with the shots was finding the spider after I would snap a few shots and check them. The spider looked just like the sand it was in. LOL

Thank you all again.
Hatch
Omri Alon
28th of April 2006 (Fri), 09:26
Great series :D The spider usually wins in these cases :lol:
racketman
28th of April 2006 (Fri), 09:46
great series -that will teach the ant to wander away from his tribe. Looks like a Springtail got caught up in the melee (shot 4 bottom R) - possibly it would have been the meal if the ant hadn't arrived.