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Habronattus coecatus
UPDATE: I entered this photo in a photography contest, and I recently found out that I won! I was able to go to London, England for the awards ceremony a couple weeks ago. The contest was themed "Feeding Life" and hosted by the Society of Biology. A ♂ Habronattus coecatus I photographed in the summer of 2012. This little guy was feasting on some sort of winged insect (probably an ant).
Urban habitat; found on concrete driveway.
Very small jumping spider with black, white and gray/brown markings on the abdomen, and the males, like this one, with a red face. I have been told it is an immature specimen.
Spotted on Jul 27, 2012
Submitted on Feb 19, 2013
22 Comments
Glad to see you joined Project Noah! If you have any questions, let me know. It's not about beating people ;) Thank you! We are getting ready right now.
Hey jack it's Luke and I must say your collection is awesome! I have always been interested in photography ( now all I need to do is get my hands on a camera) but it is going to be tuff to beet you. Good luck at the ceremonies in London!
Thank you!
Congrats Jack!
Thanks!
Fantastic close up Jack!
Thank you!
I like your macro shots!
Thank you Karen!
Nice macro Jack!
Welcome to the community!
Hemma: well first of all, the jumper was elevated just a bit above the prey, and also, I had my lens reversed, so it was a smaller area of the lens that I had to deal with. My camera lens was literally touching the ground. Besides that, I don't really remember (I took this last year). Pure luck, maybe :)
How do you get to eye level with it?
Hemma: no, this was taken on my concrete driveway, but I have handled some before, like the Phidippus audax.
Mr. Goodwin: Haha! ;)
You need to scoop one up for me so I can get some shots. ;-)
jack,do you pick up the spider and photograph it?
Thank you Antonio! I found this last summer. We have a lot of Habronattus coecatus on our yard. I love the red faces of the males!
Wow great first spotting Jack,congrats,thanks for sharing and welcome to project Noah
Yeah that sounds great! I can't wait for summer. I have found some pretty cool things (I found a pink grasshopper nymph over the weekend that I'll upload soon). I'm going to try to get all of my older pics from last year up first though. You can see the grasshopper here: www.flickr.com/jacksettleanimals
Glad to see that you joined up. I know you'll add a lot of wonderful spottings to the site. We'll have to go shooting when the weather warms up a little.
Mr. Goodwin: Thank you! I am really enjoying Project Noah.
Phillip Torres: Thanks! I do really like this species as well.
This is a really magnificent photo! And such amazing species, congrats Jack!
Welcome to Project Noah, Jack! It's nice to see you here.