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It took a ton of tries and a lot of patience (and some yoga-like muscle use) to
get a halfway decent shot that included both the Argiope and the
Argyrodes, where you can clearly see the full bodies of both, both are in
focus, the Argyrodes looks like a spider rather than a piece of debris
(at rest, they usually either tuck in all their legs, or stretch out half of
them straight forward and the rest straight back, giving them a very
inconspicuous and unspiderlike profile), and the plane the two spiders are in is
perpendicular to the camera direction so that there's no distortion of their
relative sizes. After going to all that trouble, I decided it'd be good to
contribute a
cropped version of this photo to Wikimedia Commons and add it to the Argiope argentata and
Argyrodes Wikipedia pages,
which did not have an illustration of the dewdrop spider sharing a web with its
host.
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