Warl0rd wrote in post #16113302
is it a crop or are the images stretched?
It is a crop, the spiders are really that long. It makes it hard to compose, if you show the whole spider, it's not much of a macro. With the heavy crop, or getting really close, you chop off the legs. So unfortunately it is a compromise, whichever way you choose to compose. I did make a conscious effort to isolate a single grass strand (by pushing other grass out of the way, lol)
I just thought they were neat looking spiders, I actually saw more then one, that were trying to disguise themselves as blades of grass. I know from trying to get an exact ID that this species,(tetragnatha's) do indeed spin webs. However these particular ones just hung out on blades of grass. I couldn't see any webs anywhere near the grass. The grass itself is marsh grass, only a few feet from the water. My guess is that they capture unsuspectors climbing up the grass (like ants) and they do indeed have huge jaws. I just wasnt sticking my fingers in there to coax the spiders into showing them. I'm not afraid of many insects, but i'm still not sticking my fingers in there 
In the heavy crop picture the middle things that look like short legs, are actually its jaws!
Research says that all the tetragnatha spin webs. My ID is just a guess though. It seems to closely resemble the Labriosa, but there are hundreds of species, and Google wasn't helping much.
on the upside it blurred out the other blades of grass. I purposely cropped them to 1x2.
