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Walking on Water! This Nursery Web Spiders are more fondly called Fishing Spiders as they also hunts and feeds on small fishes.  They are able to walk/skim on the water surface, waiting for their prey to swim to/under them.<br />
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Took this picture without flash but with lighting from torch to create the shadows.  The shadows of the tip of the legs are not pointed as the shadow is reflecting depressed water around the leg. Not just shadow of tip of leg. Dolomedes mizhoanus,Fishing Spider,Malaysia,Nursery Web Spider,Penang,Spider Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Walking on Water!

This Nursery Web Spiders are more fondly called Fishing Spiders as they also hunts and feeds on small fishes. They are able to walk/skim on the water surface, waiting for their prey to swim to/under them.

Took this picture without flash but with lighting from torch to create the shadows. The shadows of the tip of the legs are not pointed as the shadow is reflecting depressed water around the leg. Not just shadow of tip of leg.

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Dolomedes mizhoanus is a species of Nursery Web Spider from the Family Pisauridae.

Similar species: Spiders
Species identified by Albert Kang
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By Albert Kang

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Uploaded May 9, 2022. Captured Feb 28, 2021 06:32.
  • TG-6
  • f/4.5
  • 1/100s
  • ISO1600
  • 9.65mm