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Fuzzy red spider

September 22, 2013 by Mike Powell

Walking along the boardwalk at my local marsh, I encountered this fairly large, hairy red spider in a web almost at eye level.

It was a little disconcerting to look a spider in the eye (eyes) at such close range, but it did allow me to get a pretty detailed shot at close range against an uncluttered background. I’ve been searching around on the internet, attempting to identify the spider but so far have not had any success. Can anyone identify this cool-looking spider?

Posted in Arachnids, Macro Photography, Nature, Photography, Portraits, wildlife | Tagged Alexandria VA, Canon 50D, fuzzy red spider, Huntley Meadows Park, red spider, spider, Tamron 180mm macro lens | 13 Comments

13 Responses

on September 22, 2013 at 7:00 pm | Reply nliakos

Whoa, I would not want to walk into that.
on September 22, 2013 at 9:26 pm | Reply enmanscamera

you find such..hmmm..I can’t think of the words Mike…but you seem to find and photograph ’em. good shot!
- on September 22, 2013 at 9:42 pm | Reply Mike Powell
  
  Thanks. I try to shoot what I see and my ability to pick things out seems to be improving. It would be nice to travel to exotic locations, but for now I am pretty content to shoot in my local area.
  - on September 23, 2013 at 1:33 am enmanscamera
    
    I think Virginia is pretty exotic.
on September 23, 2013 at 12:54 am | Reply Lyle Krahn

Impressive shot especially with that background.
on September 23, 2013 at 6:23 am | Reply New Hampshire Gardener

I’ve never seen a red spider. Other than for the color it seems to resemble a fishing spider that I saw last week. That was a big one.
- on September 23, 2013 at 6:32 am | Reply Mike Powell
  
  This one was a reddish orange and seemed to be smaller that the fishing spiders that I have seen. It was a little hard to tell exactly how big this one was, because of the way that its legs were mostly bunched together. Fishing spiders always seem to have their legs completely extended, which makes them look even bigger.
on September 23, 2013 at 9:26 am | Reply caleephotography

Eeeeww!! Great shot, Mike, but … eeeeuww! *full body shiver* This is the scariest looking one you posted so far. And what is it doing? Stretching? Brrr!
on September 23, 2013 at 11:59 am | Reply Ed

Not something I would want to walk into..:-)
Great shot..
on September 24, 2013 at 2:26 am | Reply beatzkane

Reblogged this on beatzkaneblog143.
on October 12, 2013 at 9:48 pm | Reply Nicole

I’m trying to figure out the same thing! Was at the park with my daughter and my eye caught a glance at this weird looking spider.
on December 5, 2013 at 7:39 am | Reply RAB

I like spiders very much! Sorry this one didn’t stretch out to show his limbs, but the shot is very interesting as is.
- on December 5, 2013 at 7:45 am | Reply Mike Powell
  
  I too enjoy watching spiders and regret that the weather has gotten so cold that they are no longer around.