Funel web spider - Agelena labyrinthica

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Jivko Nakev

Lion

@Ferdy, you have a beautiful set of this species back from 2013. I wonder how you managed to make them - it looks like you were shooting from inside the funnel! Posted 5 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
  Lion
  
  Thank you, Jivko, this remains one of my personal favs:
  
  ...but mostly luck I think. I recall it was opposite a pond and relatively high above the ground, making it easier to peek into it. It's also a crop, which may give the illusion of being inside the tunnel. Plus, I was lucky that the spider was so occupied with feeding.
  
  I think the scene can be recreated because their behavior is quite predictable:
  - when you touch the entire structure or bush, they will flee back into the tunnel and won't come out for quite a long time, so try to avoid that.
  - slightly touch the horizontal "mat" and they may do the opposite: come out because they think there's prey caught in the web
  - Or...be lucky or wait a very long time for them to feed at the tunnel entrance. Your photo also shows this pile of corpses in the foreground, so you were very close to it. To get more of a tunnel effect, take some more distance, would be my advise. Posted 5 years ago, modified 5 years ago