I have come across something quite peculiar...

[Buffalo Phil]

...In my adventures scouring the internet, looking at other people's Macro Photography...

The Ogre Faced Spider - or - Net Casting Spider

[crosbike]

badass looking

[Buffalo Phil]

badass looking

Right? Cool part is that it doesn't spin a traditional web; it spins the web between four of its legs and pounces on its prey.

[lilnapsak]

I watched a documentary about spiders and this thing was on it. Pretty cool how it pounces like you mentioned.

[bucketokarma]

Pretty awesome...

Spiders do all kinds of cool shit. Like the ones that create their own parachute catch a breeze and fly off, then shoot out a web to tether themselves to their destination, cut the "cord", and climb down/up the tether... Or the trap door spider that uses it's web to create a booby-trap so its prey falls into the spiders clutches and they duke it out pit-fighter style.... and then there is the (golden?) Orb spider that uses its web to catch and eat fucking birds flying through the air....

I am fascinated by spiders, unfortunately I also have an irrational fear of them, so if one surprises me, my first reaction is "KILL IT!!!!"

[Buffalo Phil]

Golden Orb it is.

[Ruepart Hoaxley]

Do not want.