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Wildlife In A Flower Garden

Written by admin on August 17th, 2008

My flower garden is surely small, but one of the things I love about it is that I can walk outside almost any time of any day and find some creature that amazes me. 

I usually have one of these writing spiders (Argiope) every year, but the excitement over spotting one for the first time each year never diminishes!

I placed the camera underneath the spider for this shot, and with the light behind it the actual spider looks a bit too dark, but I think it shows how iridescent the colors can look at times and it really shows the spider’s palps — those two fang-looking things right at the front, but they are not fangs.  

I was kneeling by the goldfish pond, dipping out dead leaves and watching the fish, when suddenly — with a loud rustling of leaves, this praying mantis jumped from a small nandina right at my shoulder and landed, facing me, at the edge of the goldfish pond.  Did I scream?  Almost.  I’m just thankful I did not throw my camera into the water.  :)

Lynn

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3 Comments so far ↓

  1. Aug
    18
    1:23
    PM
    Robin

    What great photos! I love the photo of you in your sidebar in the garden…lovely!
    Have a great day!

  2. Aug
    18
    2:54
    PM
    Mojo

    I caught that same spider hanging around my yard a couple of summers ago. Man that guy gets around!
    Nice shots!
    - Mojo

  3. Aug
    18
    8:29
    PM
    admin

    Thanks, Robin. :)

    Mojo, this spider has been around, eh? :)

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