Orb weaver spider, spider web time-lapse and eating a cricket - Biodiversity Shorts #5
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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An orb weaver spider makes her web and catches a light snack. All filmed in our jungle garden. One cricket was harmed during the making of this video.
Thanks to the Alvarez family for discovering this spider next to their tent.
I 'discovered' that spiders eat their webs when I was filming it. At the end of the time-lapse you can almost see her eating the centre section of the web. I saw it clearly on the previous day when I filmed the detail shots of her making the web. In hindsight I should have got a better shot of it.
I have not got up early enough to observe the entire consumption but each morning it was like she was never there.
Unfortunately she has disappeared, probably taken by a bird. I don't see big ones like her very often. The introduction was filmed after she had gone, so my finger was in no danger.
Shot over four nights mostly with a 100mm bellows lens and custom built lighting. I found that I had to use LED lighting, she did not like the heat that the halogens produced. Also she was very sensitive to noise, moving around her was not problem but talking at normal volume would cause her to abort her web building and hide in her little leaf house.
Pulling focus was probably the trickiest part of the filming, the Minolta bellows and magic lantern features made this possible.
As payment to all the disturbance she got two juicy crickets thrown in her web.
Update: there are now quite a number of small orb weavers in the same tree perhaps her offspring.
cheers, Marc.
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Music: Dance of the sugar plum fairies. Tchaikovsky
Toccata in D minor. Bach
Stale Mate, Jingle Pinks
Great video! Love how high quality they are and how concise and informative they are. Really liked the shots of the stars too! I've subscribed!
Thanks, shot from my backyard over four hours, the stars come out rarely here but when they do it is stunning. Here is another vid. #10 - 4K Ultra HD Night Sky Time-lapse. Stars near the southern cross. Marc Griffith.
Beautiful... very well done. Brilliant end!!! Subscribed. That is quite impressive DOF for the magnifications. Can you enlighten me with your technique? Reverse?Tube?Bellows?Tilt Shift? In the night it must be hard to get to high fstops. Again... brilliant. Thank you Marc!
I’ve been doing a lot of hedge work, an enormous spider almost collided with my face in the back corner of my yard 😱 I guess I bothered it too much so now it’s relocated a web attaching to corners of my roof spanning 15’+ across right freakin next to my back door 🤦🏻♀️😂 want to get it to go back in the corner but not sure how to relocate and I’m not getting close enough to catch it, watching this made my heart race lol. Fantastic quality video and audio.. crunch crunch.
Hated the choppy editing of random things while the spider was eating, and I wish we could have seen how she takes her web down. Oh well. I'll keep looking for it.
So damn cool!
So this answered my question what is in my yard. It's an orb weaver
That was amazing!! Thomas is watching it now
Too many cut scenes, just show the meal!
I like your videos/ I don't know why not so many views for such amazing production
You quite literally Jumpstart
Eriophora ravilla/fuliginea ?
Amazing video, subscribed
Very cool! I found one of these and destroyed the web. I had no idea. Beautiful creatures.
The entomopathogenic fungi was amazing!!!
Did they.... Welp there's my ANSWER 👀🤣🤬🤣🤣🤣
Hey great job!
Thanks.
Great work Marc, really enjoyed it. My kids will love these vids. Can I request that you say which country you're in in the vids (I think you're in South America?) and put the classical music artist, orchestra,and composer in the credits? (I used to be a professional classical musician and that stuff is interesting to nerds like me).
Dlearnt Thanks for the nice feedback. I have had others say that their kids like it too, so I will keep that in mind. Ecuador. Some have it in the credits, but I'll put the music in the description from now on. If I forget any let me know. I don't have a lot of information on the classical music but it all comes from the youtube audio library.
Music: Dance of the sugar plum fairies. Tchaikovsky
Toccata in D minor. Bach Stale Mate, Jingle Pinks
Thanks Marc. Just watched all your others with my boys (5 and 2) - they were riveted.
Pink Powderpuff (Calliandra brevipes Benth.)
Kai-Yao To Referring to the exploding seeds video. Thank you :) I've updated the description.
Loved the humour and the images were superb! I have to say I am a ML fan too, would love to see your set up!
ATB Malc
RCTV-UK
Thanks, glad you got a laugh out of it. Yep ML and CHDK has kept me on Canon for a while now. Closest thing there is to an open source camera.
CHDK?
For the canon compacts: chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK
Biodiversity Shorts Oh awesome like ML for the compacts V cool
brilliant shots!
Orb weavers don't have venom
Google Orb Weavers Venom