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Unlike other species from the Theraphosidae family inhabiting Borneo rainforests, Phormingochilus everetti has an arboreal lifestyle living in tree hollows. For this reason, photographing this species in situ without catching or removing it from its hollow is a very difficult task. I found this spider at night walk in Tawau Hills national park on a tree near a forest stream. The spider hollow was located quite high above the ground, but, fortunately, there was a bridge across the river just below the hollow level, from which I could take pictures. To take pictures of the spider, I used a wide-angle macro lens. Since the spider was very careful and didn’t allow me to get close, I was forced to go to tricks. I mounted the camera on a tripod (since the tree was quite far from the bridge railing, I had to move the central column to a horizontal position and extend it as far as possible to the hollow direction) and shoot the camera from a distance using my phone. Since the lens used didn’t have autofocus, I had to spend a lot of time choosing the camera position so that the spider was in focus.
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