Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

Heavy rain yesterday and I did not expect to find much. What a surprise.

Looking through a water droplet

An ant walking about

I happened upon a crab spider hiding in the mouth of my favorite micro-orchid, Asystasia gangaticam. While setting up, I disturbed her and she emerged and moved behind the blossom and hid. I tried to coax her out and eventually she jumped into my hand and them running around, dropped down - into the web of a Cyrtophora cicatrosa. She eventually escaped - but while I was not watching. Sigh.

Here is the lady of the house - Cyrtophora cicatrosa

and a view of the grid of her Gaussian web

Here is the Thomasus guangxicus resting or playing dead in the Cyrtophora web

And another view of the crab spider

C. Frank Starmer

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