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The Predator

This Black and Yellow Argiope, more casually known as the Golden Garden Spider, is wrapping in silk what I think is possibly a grasshopper of some kind. Though ...
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This Black and Yellow Argiope, more casually known as the Golden Garden Spider, is wrapping in silk what I think is possibly a grasshopper of some kind. Though you can't tell in the photo, its web is actually suspended over water - right next to the rail of a wooden pathway built over a swamp on the edge of Armand Bayou at Bay Area Park in Pasadena, Texas, a region of Houston.
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NIKON D5100

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Aperture f/9 ISO 2000 Shutter 1/1000 Focal Length 2000/10

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Jun, 2018

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