This is a female Argiope keyserlingi, more commonly known as a Saint Andrew’s Cross spider. She’s currently living in a web spanning from the top of the wall on our balcony, to the bottom of the balcony of the unit above us. She’s only formed two of the usual four zig-zag bits on her web that make these particular spiders stand out.
I was happy with the performance of my Tamron 70–300mm lens too. It has a macro mode when using it at the top end of the zoom, which was just what I needed to capture her.
- Aperture: f/6
- Camera: NIKON D50
- Focal length: 300 mm
- ISO: 200
- Shutter speed: 1/50 s
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Lovely photo I especially like the twirly bits in the web, Great shot!
Beautiful photo.
Nice shot. She’s not much a web maker though, is she?
wow, that is a cool looking (although creepy) spider. are they deadly? great shot!
Thanks heaps for your comments everyone!
Jayhen, I’ll tell her you said that ;) Now that you mention it, it’s not a work of precision, eh? Maybe only certain species make perfect webs?
Adam, nope, they’re harmless to humans as far as anyone knows.
Beautiful photo, the spider scares me, haha.
its sooo cool but soo scary its web is right outside my house what if it comes in the house what do i do?
Erin, I’ve never seen one of these things inside, but if it does come in, scoop it up with paper into a jar and toss it outside.