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This little series of 14 pics tells a story of feast, greed, betrayal, violence but has an unexpected ending. I was gripped watching it unfold on the side of a bucket in my shed.
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Excellent :) I'm lucky to live in one of the few parts of the UK where the common lizard (Lacerta vivipara) and slow worm (Anguis fragilis) are commonly seen.
Not quite the Rosenberg's monitors you find though!
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By the looks of the markings, I'd say they are of the same species but one is male and the otehr is the female, If thats the case I place bets on the male being the smaller one, almost looks like blackwidows. TDU your fantastic photography and Austrailias diverse wild life reminds me of why I'd like to in the country down under.
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Ken M. wrote ...
By the looks of the markings, I'd say they are of the same species but one is male and the otehr is the female, If thats the case I place bets on the male being the smaller one, almost looks like blackwidows.
My understanding is that the males are tiny, like 1/4 the size. There were some there but I didn't take shots. So these are both females. In the spider world it's common to eat your children and for your children to eat each other. And one of only 2 animals to where the male actively assists sexual cannibalism.
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Alex wrote ...
Hah, that was interesting. I wonder what the people around me thought (I'm in the dining hall eating breakfast). Nice camera work, as always.
Breakfast with your laptop? Yeah, I eat in front of the computer too.
The pictures really have a very narrow field of focus that can't be more than a mm. I could have changed to manual and changed the f stop because the lighting was a flash. But I didn't have time and didn't want to mess up a sequence.
Interestingly the next day the bug was on the floor, dead and still trussed up. I'm not sure what that means because it must have been actively ejected.
Redbacks are quite poisonous but no deaths since antivenom was introduced. They are everywhere. There is a song that goes:"there was a redback on the toilet seat when I was there last night...."
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