Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


May 19, 2011:Mating of Mecynogea lemniscata

Two day old moon

may 19 6571 moon

Green Dragonfly

may 19 6581 green dragonfly

Gaussian web ofo Mecynoge lemniscata

may 19 6588 gaussian web

Female M. lemniscata

may 19 6621 mecynogea lemniscata

Male M. lemniscata

may 19 6628 male basilica

My first encounter with spider behavior: Nephila clavipes

may 19 6641 nephila clavipes

Another view

may 19 6648 nephila clavipes

Female Basilica (M. lemniscata)

may 19 6668 female basilica

View of the fine mesh construction

may 19 6684 basilica web mesh

Male and female - playing the mating game

may 19 6690 male female basilica

More waiting on the part of the male

may 19 6694 female male basilica

And waiting

may 19 6697 male basilica

Meanwhile, the female is distracted by a fly caught in the mesh

may 19 6698 caught mesh

Dinner

may 19 6705 dinner

Male

may 19 6710 male mecynogea lemniscata

This gal (guy?) was cohabiting in the same web as the M. lemniscata

may 19 6714 web cohabitant

Dinner

may 19 6723 dinner

Male and female and dinner

may 19 6729 male female dinner

Male silhouette

may 19 6744 male silhouette

Nearby - a Gasteracantha cancriformis web

may 19 6798 gasteracantha

another view

may 19 6799 gasteracantha

another view

may 19 6805 gasteracantha

Stabilimenta - very nice decorations

may 19 6813 gasteracantha stabililmenta

Then nearby a Leucauge venusta hiding

may 19 6862 leucauge venusta hiding

may 19 6876 leucauge venusta

Her web

may 19 6885 leucauge venusta web

Resting in her web

may 19 6891 leucauge venusta web

Basilica female and egg sac

may 19 6895 basilica egg sac

may 19 6909 female basilica

may 19 6916 female basilica

may 19 6933 male basilica

may 19 6961 male female basilica

Buzzard in the top of a tree

may 19 6976 buzzard

may 19 6985 buzzard

Two buzzards

may 19 6993 two buzzards

The color of white

may 19 6998 color of white

White flower

may 19 7001 white flower

The previous images were low resolution (a mistake on my part) so I fixed the resolution and returned - you never know whether they will be around tomorrow - so back to the tent spider (Basilica) - here the female

may 19 7091 female mesh

and the male

may 19 7109 male batista

may 19 7119 male batista

Female

may 19 7122 female batista

may 19 7131 female batista

Green dragonfly

may 19 7146 green dragonfly

may 19 7155 green dragonfly

may 19 7164 green dragonfly

may 19 7172 female batista

may 19 7178 male batista

Two birds

may 19 7196 two birds

may 19 basilica female

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C. Frank Starmer

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