The first shot I call Tete a Tete.
Now to the main course. I've never seen a spider actually eating before. It was like watching a socialite eat caviar. The food mass glistened like caviar as well.
In the more extreme close up you can see the fangs at the top of the food mass.
When the spider was finished, it just flicked it away like Beckham (I was actually focussing for another shot and saw it happen in the viewfinder) what a shot that would have been).

[Jimbo]

Cool story Gary. Really like the first and last one. JIM

[acbees]

Nice captures, Gary. Always more interesting to catch one in the act instead of just sitting there.
Arvin

Nice captures, Gary. Always more interesting to catch one in the act instead of just sitting there.
Arvin

Thanks Arvin. Keep up the good work with the bees.

[mhertel]

Nice shots! Always wondered what they did with the waste after they sucked them dry

[mhertel]

Btw, what lens did you shoot those with? no exif data

Btw, what lens did you shoot those with? no exif data

Sigma 105 macro

[marcusyoung]

Gary,

If the shot on spider could be captured slightly further away to have greater sharpness and have it cropped, would be a better one. Still not an easy task having external environment to contend with like wind and available light.

At 1:1, the whole spider cannot be in sharp focus. maybe 1mm from point of focus. A good try and more spider please. Ha ha

Marcus young

[mel]

Nice shooting Gary but um, ew. But nice shooting.

[roentarre]

Great captures. I wish to see these creatures here soon in spring.

You have got quite some details from these shots.

[daacon]

Cool I like spiders for the fact the are higher on the food chain than other insects I am not so found of. Great capture of the law of the jungle. (or at least the law of whatever area you took that in )

[gawan]

Glad I am on this side of my monitor! Great shots!

Gary,

If the shot on spider could be captured slightly further away to have greater sharpness and have it cropped, would be a better one. Still not an easy task having external environment to contend with like wind and available light.

At 1:1, the whole spider cannot be in sharp focus. maybe 1mm from point of focus. A good try and more spider please. Ha ha

Marcus young

Ha ha, thanks Marcus. I get your point, it's a bit like the difference between hardcore and soft core. In this case I was more at the hardcore end.

Nice shooting Gary but um, ew. But nice shooting.

Thanks Mel

Great captures. I wish to see these creatures here soon in spring.

You have got quite some details from these shots.

Thanks James, I was happy to capture behaviour that I had never seen before.

Cool I like spiders for the fact the are higher on the food chain than other insects I am not so found of. Great capture of the law of the jungle. (or at least the law of whatever area you took that in )

It was right in my frontyard, The spider guards the tomato plant.

Glad I am on this side of my monitor! Great shots!

Grr! you're such a pussy Georg.

[todd]

wow these are groovy gravy shots! :-P