Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning
- Video Segments
- Miagrammopes clowning around Video is about the only way to capture her in action (7.8 MB mpg). The stick-like Miagrammopes appears as a small stationary twig and then starts to manipulate her capture thread with rapid leg motion. I'm shooting for improvement
- Learning links
- Cribellate Silk The capture silk of Miagrammopes
Then this afternoon - our lady was gone - and now only X marks the spot
With a nearby stink bug guarding the place
But look - on the right rear leg is an ant - sort of getting a free ride somewhere
Just hanging on for the ride
Here it is climbing over the edge of the leaf, looking for a bit of shade
Close by was a juvenile Nephilia pilipes repairing her web
Sort of a tangled mess
A closer view of her repairing her web
Extruding silk - which I had switched to my 90 mm macro. This is the 180 mm macro and gone is the depth of field - sigh
Nephila served on a green and yellow background
I am not sure what she is doing - but in spite of the over exposure, she seems to be altering the connection of her single strand web with the top of the grass
A small twig in disguise
I think this is a Leucauge. She just turned up out of nowhere while I was watching the Miagrammopes connect with a tall strand of grass
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C. Frank Starmer