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UV fluorescence of a Net Casting Spider eyes :) Taken at night in Singapore.

Quote from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinopid…

The spider family Deinopidae consists of stick-like elongate spiders that build unusual webs that they suspend between the front legs. When prey approaches, the spider will stretch the net to two or three times its relaxed size and propel itself onto the prey, entangling it in the web. Because of this, they are also called net-casting spiders. Their excellent night-vision adapted posterior median eyes allow them to cast this net over potential prey items. These eyes are so large in comparison to the other six eyes that the spider seems to have only two eyes.

The genus Deinopis is the best known in this family. Spiders in this genus are also called ogre-faced spiders, due to the imagined similarity between their appearance and that of the mythological creature, the ogre. It is distributed nearly worldwide in the tropics, from Australia to Africa and the Americas. In Florida, Deinopis often hangs upside-down from a silk line under palmetto fronds during the day. It emerges at night to practice its unusual prey capture method on invertebrate prey.

Image size
960x640px 176.58 KB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Shutter Speed
8/1 second
Aperture
F/16.0
Focal Length
100 mm
ISO Speed
320
Date Taken
Mar 24, 2014, 9:40:31 PM
Sensor Size
6mm
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Robot58-Mech's avatar

Amazing and Stunning :D.


Shrek: What am I?


Donkey: Really Tall?


Shrek: NO, I'm an Ogre-Faced Spider B-)!