Spiders - 8 eyes & 8 legged creatures

Spider

Spider with a Butterfly as Prey

Spiders are eight eyed creatures and  are some of the most efficient hunters of the animal kingdom, they can kill a prey 5 times larger than them.

Spider eats 5 times its prey

Spider makes web  and sit in the middle, monitoring the radius threads for vibrations. Once an insect is caught in the web, the spider feels the motion and makes its way to the vibration source, thus extending its presence to a much wider area.

Spider makes web  and sit in the middle, monitoring the radius threads for vibrations. Once an insect is caught in the web, the spider feels the motion and makes its way to the vibration source, thus extending its presence to a much wider area.

                                                  Some crazy facts

A single strand of spider web has more potential energy than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki

Spiders cannot physically die of natural causes. If kept safe, a spider can continue to live and grow larger for a theoretically unlimited amount of time. In fact, in China there exists a collection of 'holy' spiders, hatched some 2,800 years ago during the height of the Mang-Tsun dynasty

The largest spider ever observed by scientists was over 8 feet long and weighed in at 530 pounds. It was actually immobile though, it's legs had been broken long ago by merely carrying its own weight

Hippie Beetle

Delighting Orange Tortoise Beetle

Tortoise beetles are small turtle like insects having thin margins that extend out of their body. They are one of he few insects that can change their metallic colour. 

Tortoise beetles feed on plants and it is also reported that they feed on  jimson weed, Datura stramonium and other members of the Solanaceae.

Body- Nikon D90
Lens - Nikon 40mm prime
F9 , 1/60s , ISO-320

Robber Fly With A Prey

This is a TAMRON contest winning image :-

Robber Fly belongs to the Family of Asilidae.  Their size vary from 0.5 cm to 5cm in length. They usually have stiff bristles on the face called mystax.
      
The name "Robber fly" reflects its notorious and aggressive behavior. They are well known for catching their  predators at flight and mainly  feed on other insects like bees, dragonflies, spiders and even insects that are much more larger than them. They use their bristly legs to catch their prey and hold them around their neck. Then inserting their hypopharynx into the prey, it injects a saliva that contains toxins and enzymes that paralyzes the prey to feed they feed on.

Colours of Analog Music

This picture reflects my belief that colours flow through music. The mellower the sound of music, the brighter the shade of colour.
The vibrant sound coming out of an acoustic guitar when you strum it gently reminds me of the soothing feeling that bright shades of colours bring with them. Music for me is an abstraction of colour. Every type of music represents a particular colour ,but only the sound of an acoustic guitar adds to it the intensity of colour.
The unprocessed raw sound of an acoustic guitar brings with it a cartoon like effect to light. You can relate it to the feeling that any analog sound produces, a feeling that you get when you listen to any raw, unprocessed sound. A processed sound like that of an electric guitar can be related to a digital, sharper sensation of light.
The picture represents the deep bond that sound shares with light. The colours in the picture give it a raw and analog effect. An effect that is complemented by the presence of an instrument that produces a natural but magical sound.

Mystical Mountains of Karnataka

Jog falls is the is the second-highest plunge waterfall in India. Located at Shimoga district, the falls is created due to Sharavathi River dropping at a height of 253 m (830 ft) .