Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


November 3, 2007:Leucauge decorata weaving and female Leucauge decorata chillin'

An idea of size scale. Two stalks of grass are joined by silk and below is her web

nov 03 8317 leucauge web

A lucky shot - almost head on, with a good view of her eye array

Leucauge eyes

Cleaning her legs

nov 03 8281 leucauge cleaning

Leucauge decorata extruding silk

nov 02 8215 leucauge extruding

The glow of silk. A male with appropriate palps and the trichobothrium, the curved hairs that are vibration sensors on the right and left femor 4th

nov 02 8226 leucauge strands

Another view of the palps and trichobothrium on right and left femor 4

nov 02 8233 leucauge holding strand

Here the trichobothrium are shown on right and left femor 4

nov 02 8236 leucauge hairs

Extruding silk

nov 02 8240 leucauge extruding

A cricket on a hairy blade of some sort of grass

nov 02 8255 cricket

Another view

nov 02 8256 cricket

A yellow dragonfly

nov 03 7443 yellow dfly

Me - with camera, flash and GPS

nov 02 7221 frank d200

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