Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


November 07, 2015: Heavy fog make wet webs at Jay's farm

I went out this moring to look for spiders but there was a heavy fog. Sort of frustrated, I started to walk back and saw an amazing spider web - heavily laden with morning fog. So this is a collection of what you might call spider web art

nov 07 8463 web web

See pod web

nov 07 8469 seed pod web

nov 07 8475 web drops

nov 07 8479 conical web

nov 07 8483 leucauge venusta

nov 07 8488 leucauge venusta

nov 07 8490 wet web

nov 07 8492 web web

nov 07 8494 drooping web

nov 07 8497 leucauge web

nov 07 8499 wet web

nov 07 8504 web droplets

nov 07 8509 many wet webs

nov 07 8511 web on branches

nov 07 8519 wet web

nov 07 8523 segmental sagging

nov 07 8525 suspended web

nov 07 8537 suspended droplets

nov 07 8550 gastercantha cancriformis web strands

nov 07 8551 gasteracantha web glue drops

Nephila clavipes and her huge web

nov 07 8557 nephila web

A much smaller wet web

nov 07 8569 small wet web

nov 07 8590 web webs

Conical web and its owner

nov 07 8591 conical web and owner

Side view of the conical web

nov 07 8593 conical web side

Conical web - Owner is trying to check me out - but only legs appear

nov 07 8595 conical web and owner

The owner of the conical web

nov 07 8598 conical web owner

Small spiders can create an enormous amount of silk. So much protein to fabricate - how?

nov 07 8600 conical web

Tiny suspended web

nov 07 8612 tiny suspended web

Droplets against green

nov 07 8614 droplets against green

This is an amazing display of behavior. The bottom half of the web is circular - but the top half has a stair-step appearance and symmetric more or less

nov 07 8623 drooping semi web

Three webs

nov 07 8624 three webs

Approaching breakfast

nov 07 8630 approaching breakfast

Preparing breakfast

nov 07 8634 spider and two course breakfast

Gasteracantha cancriformis weaving her web and not cooperating - only displays her ventral side

nov 07 8655 gasteracantha weaving

More weaving

nov 07 8656 gasteracantha weaving

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C. Frank Starmer

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