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Dark-Raptor — Araneus quadratus
Published: 2008-03-25 08:43:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 1518; Favourites: 36; Downloads: 47
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Very common orb-web spider. You can find them on meadows and close to the forests, on high plants and grasses.Related content
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its not a quadratus, but a araneus diadematus, the abdomen is'nt round and fat, this abdomen is a triangle with a christ's Cross
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How do you manage do take such amazing pictures?!!
Stunning work once again!
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We look more carefull in the grass, searching for invertebrates 
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Out here where I live we have them all over too, and when I was younger I was told they were called Cat Face spiders due to the markings on the abdomen and the shape of the abdomen when you look at it from above with the head pointing up. I loves em. I used to make a game of feeding ants to them when I was in grade school. I was prity much an outcast for the most part. hehe.
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Nice. The patterns on it's back looks like a demon's face.
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We have hundreds of these in my garden, they begin life as a tight, explosive web of tiny yellow pinhead youngsters and by autumn they are big, fat and heavy..........
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It is some kind of dry plant.
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Common but beautiful. I have some photos of it as well, I didn't know its name in latin though.
Nice photograph! (as always!)
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They are less common than A. diadematus but I think that they are more beautifull. I'm lookin for A. alsine (red form), IMO this is the most beautifull orb-web spider in Poland.
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Nice spider! From this angle, it looks like its abdomen is a ball - or an Easter egg...
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Yup, it look like easter egg
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hmm, looks a bit like those ones: [link]
they're cute, sometimes I caress their abdomen, it's soft ^__^ But I'm sure they must be freaking out lol
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Spider from your link belongs to the same genus - Araneus but it is another specie. A. diadematus and A. quadratus are missidentified very often, despite they have much different markings on abdomen.
Yes, their abdomen is soft but more naked than in jumping spiders
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Where can I find the equipment needed to take those kind of pictures? Not that close to high grass and forests I believe 
This one is great, and I can see how you sacrificed surrounding saturation for a feel of detail. At least that's what I THINK you've done.
Keep 'em coming, king of macros.
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All colors are natural, only the light was artifical (balanced flash)
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