Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

This evening - a Cyclosa has taken up residence over our picnic table

A second Cyclosa

and a third Cyclosa web

Here is our little wolf spider, Lycossidae

With 365 nm UV illumination - Eyes as well as silk strands fluoresce

Another view of eyes and silk fluorescence

A closer view of eyes, and silk

Flash illumination

UV illumination - in addition to the blue silk fluorescence and greenish eye fluorescence, there is a red fluorescence of some silk

Cree 365 nm illumination of the wolf spider Lycosidae

Flash illumination of the wolf spider Lycosidae

C. Frank Starmer

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