Two day old moon
Green Dragonfly
Gaussian web ofo Mecynoge lemniscata
Female M. lemniscata
Male M. lemniscata
My first encounter with spider behavior: Nephila clavipes
Another view
Female Basilica (M. lemniscata)
View of the fine mesh construction
Male and female - playing the mating game
More waiting on the part of the male
And waiting
Meanwhile, the female is distracted by a fly caught in the mesh
Dinner
Male
This gal (guy?) was cohabiting in the same web as the M. lemniscata
Dinner
Male and female and dinner
Male silhouette
Nearby - a Gasteracantha cancriformis web
another view
another view
Stabilimenta - very nice decorations
Then nearby a Leucauge venusta hiding
Her web
Resting in her web
Basilica female and egg sac
Buzzard in the top of a tree
Two buzzards
The color of white
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
and the male
Female
Green dragonfly
Two birds
C. Frank Starmer