Quizzical Crab

[racketman]

looks like he's summoning up the courage to touch it...

http://www.pbase.com/image/96731315/original.jpg

[MrEd]

mate thats a stunning shot ! he looks like he has to eyes above 2 nostrils above a mouth lol, a mouth thats frowning!! quality :D

[johnkermit1]

awesome capture. i love this shot! the lighting is great , good details, and the composition is nice!

[macro junkie]

lovley shot

[LordV]

Excellent- love it :)
Brian V.

[skylab]

Super shot.

[alliec]

Looks like he's trying to make it move by the power of thought :-)

[racketman]

Looks like he's trying to make it move by the power of thought :-)

:lol::lol:

[spidermanrbryce2006]

ha great shot, do you know what the thing is? the thing the crab spider looking at lol

[GaryT]

Great shot Toby.

[amandajane]

Aww that's hilarious :0) What an excellent shot!

[racketman]

ha great shot, do you know what the thing is? the thing the crab spider looking at lol

Good question. I wonder if it is a type of glandular hair?

"Hairs" on plants are properly called trichomes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichome). Leaves can show several degrees of hairiness. The meaning of several of the following terms can overlap.

glabrous: no hairs of any kind present.
arachnoid, arachnose: with many fine, entangled hairs giving a cobwebby appearance.
barbellate: with finely barbed hairs (barbellae).
bearded: with long, stiff hairs.
bristly: with stiff hair-like prickles.
canescent: hoary with dense grayish-white pubescence.
ciliate: marginally fringed with short hairs (cilia).
ciliolate: minutely ciliate.
floccose (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Floccose&action=edit&redlink=1): with flocks of soft, woolly hairs, which tend to rub off.
glandular: with a gland at the tip of the hair.
hirsute: with rather rough or stiff hairs.
hispid: with rigid, bristly hairs.
hispidulous: minutely hispid.
hoary: with a fine, close grayish-white pubescence.
lanate, lanose: with woolly hairs.
pilose: with soft, clearly separated hairs.
puberulent, puberulous: with fine, minute hairs.
pubescent: with soft, short and erect hairs.
scabrous, scabrid: rough to the touch
sericeous: silky appearance through fine, straight and appressed (lying close and flat) hairs.
silky: with adpressed, soft and straight pubescence.
stellate, stelliform: with star-shaped hairs.
strigose: with appressed, sharp, straight and stiff hairs.
tomentose: densely pubescent with matted, soft white woolly hairs.
cano-tomentose: between canescent and tomentose
felted-tomentose: woolly and matted with curly hairs.
villous: with long and soft hairs, usually curved.
woolly: with long, soft and tortuous or matted hairs.

[Jay Lowery]

is that on a nettle plant?