Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

How we walked there (and to McDonalds and then to home)

Yu Hyun and I started about 8:30. Since last week I managed to spook a sleeping crab spider - I decided to look for another and here she is with arms wrapped around her. Last week I thought she was a piece of debris - and realized after the debris developed 8 legs that it must have been a sleeping crab spider

This time I carefully spooked here and she slowly moved to another petal - arms beginning to unfold

A yellow flower

Morning glory

Melastoma

Another crab spider - fully awake and in the capture position

A Cyrtophora web - dry

I gently sprayed with with water mist to highlight the structure

Waited and she returned

ANother crab spider to the side - but one pair of arms is compromised by the yellow petal

Back to Cyrtophora

Her face - with a drop of water

Another view

A nearby dragonfly

Then a surprise - Melastoma with a crab spider

We coaxed her to another petal

Closer view

Yu Hyun and her photos

Febryary 25, 2012:Yu Hyun and Spiders

Me

A funnel web with morning dew

Another of me

Yu Hyun trying to catch a crab spider (a year ago she was totally afraid of nature - now she is quite comfortable with nature

A butterfly - focused. She is practicing focus

C. Frank Starmer

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