Originally posted by Skodadriver Not sure that this is a spider, seen in Spain whilst on holiday. Apologies if it is not. It only has 2 eyes that I can make out!
I shot this with a Tamron SP90 and on board flash then waited until the sun dropped low enough to photograph using the sun. Sat waiting on a chair expecting to be able to take some good images but as soon as the sun hit the body it tore off and hid from me. Faster than I had imagined!
A "daddy long legs" or "harvestman." Very spider-like, but technically not a spider. Easiest way to tell, aside from not having eight eyes, is that there's no distinctly different or separate cephalothorax and abdomen.
This is the same
A. trifasciata I posted above working on a freshly caught cranefly. By the time we finished our walk, a loop, this girl had apparently sucked out all the good and cut the husk off of her web.