The Nature Photography Thread

[Stefan-A]

The really sad thing is that I should remember this one's name.

[Stefan-A]

More insects..






And a spider. James?



And something we found in a stream. A 5 cm pike (Esox lucius).

[Stefan-A]

Passer montanus, tree sparrow. If they weren't protected, they would provide me with an endless supply of hatchlings. They (4 or 5 pairs) nest in my house.



Rana temporaria.



And another one, found 50 meters from the first one.


I took half of these pictures today. Were supposed to identify plants, but I got bored.

[adamanteus]

And a spider. James?

Araniella cucurbitina or is it Araniella inconspicua?

[Stefan-A]

How do you tell them apart? By taking them apart?

Don't you have any distribution maps that could possibly exclude one of the possibilities?

[adamanteus]

Maybe if I look them up I could tell you which one it is...Do you really want to know?

[Stefan-A]

I'm sure it's not worth the trouble.

[adamanteus]

I can't be bothered looking it up Stefan, but I'm guessing it will be A. cucurbitina, as I believe A. inconspicua is more common in the south.

[Stefan-A]

Yeah, I don't care enough to ask you to do it. I did however do a quick search for the scientific names of both + the Finnish word for spider. Guess which one was the only one to give any results.

Found a Finnish forum dedicated to insect photography. Didn't realize there was a demand for such a thing. A quick search pretty much confirmed that it's a cucurbitina, but apparently a few species have been found at least once in Finland. Don't know if you care, but they're apparently:

A. alpica
A.cucurbitina
A. displicata
A. opisthographa
A. proxima

[adamanteus]

Thankyou, Stefan, that's interesting. So what is the Finnish word for spider?