Articles tagged with: spider
Alex Wild at the Myrmecos blog included my eight-legged
vaudevillian, below, in his “Best Insect Photos of 2009″ list,
and I’m pleased to be among his favorites.
Alex does a great job of sharing his entomological knowledge
and excellent photography; I learn something from
each of his posts.
My image of a pirate spider (great name) also prompted more comments
than any post since I started the Wild Light blog.
Here’s another arachnid image from earlier this year, a spider practicing
her invisible art of patience and silk.
A spider does a little soft shoe, an old-time arachnid vaudeville act on a grass blade stage.
Whenever I post a spider image, I get no comments. I just returned from a dust-up on Facebook, advocating not killing spiders and taking some abuse from the spider-haters.
So is anyone brave enough to make a comment? Can a spider get cuter than this?
One small step for a small spider, soon to be lost in the bloom.
Bug Dreams, my newest book, is now available. Bug Dreams, a 40 page hardcover book with dustjacket, takes you deep into a green microwilderness, a dreamless moment of light.
From the introduction by Kathe Koja:
”In the green world, all days are one Day, and evening is a dreamless moment. The philosophy of life there is quite simple, but expressed in a million ways, a billion: the twitch of compound eyes, the ballet stretch of a leg, the fierce distension of a mandible.”
For more information, see preview images and order a copy of Bug Dreams, follow the ant.
A spider hangs in a green spring garden, practicing her invisible art of patience and silk.
A tiny spider decorates the arachnid version of a Christmas tree, in Canada’s southernmost coastal vacation hot spot.
A spider prepares a special treat for unwary Halloween visitors.
She waits patiently in a misty Hell, Michigan hollow.
A 50 foot high mechanical spider, La Princesse, climbs a building in Liverpool last month, operated by the French company La Machine. See her on the BBC.
Photo courtesy Peter Wakelin.
