Boris appears to be a Giganticus Bigassus Texspideroid.
Nice shot, and the closest thing I can find in my Audubon field
guide is the black-and-yellow Argiope. If Boris ain't one, he's a
close relative. Actually, though, Boris may really be Doris.
Walt Wayman
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Richard Locke" <dtlocke@xxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 08:19:52 -0600
>Speaking of spiders...
>
>Here's a spider hanging around the B&B we stayed at in Wimberly,
TX. OM2s (thanks Tom!), Vivitar 90mm macro (thanks to another
list member whose name I forget, sorry), handheld, Kodak RG 100
print film, ~f8 at about 1/250 plus or minus one fstop in either
direction. I was bracketing around "sunny 16."
>
>I named him "Boris," which my wife didn't understand as she
wasn't really into The Who way back when ;-)
>
>Can anyone definitively identify Boris?
>
>-Dick, dtlocke@xxxxxxxx
>
>Oh yes, the link:
>http://www.flex.net/~dtlocke/photos/stn-spider-rg100-ed1.jpg
>
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