Taman Rimba Kiara's crabbies

A male specimen

The female crab spider

Crab spiders are interesting creatures.You can find them in the garden and some heavily foliaged areas.In my quest to record spiders, I found a pair of male and female crab spiders and shot them with my Canon MPE-65 lens.These are really small fellas measuring no more than 5mm in length.What was astounding was the fact that they have an expressive face.

Return of the dark one

The spider in its lair

This little fellah measures no more than 1mm in length

The mother guarding its spiderlings

After a few nights of disappointment, I finally found a subject for my close-up shot.It was a black faced crab spider with its spiderlings.This was an interesting find and I wasted no time rigging up my foldable table and some
clamps to get a shot of the spider family.The lighting aspect was challenging because the spider was lying low under the cover of a
pandan leaf nest.I managed to score a few decent shots of the spiders and its young ones (measuring no
more than 1mm).It took me more than an hour to set up the shot and after I was done, the spider and its
spiderlings were returned to where it was found.