Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


September 22, 2016: More exploration of Triple Creek

Heavy ground fog this morning - some wet webs

sep 22 0053 wet web

A beautiful sagging wet web

sep 22 0054 wet web

Grasshopper - I think exiting its old exoskeleton

sep 22 0075 0083 grasshopper stack

Peucetia viridans on the stem of caesar's weed

sep 22 0096 peucetia viridans

Peucetia viridans on the stem of caesar's weed

sep 22 0099 0107 puecetia viridans

Bumble bee

sep 22 0122 bumble bee

Female Nephila clavipes

sep 22 0129 nephia clavipes

Interesting discoloration on her carapace

sep 22 0132 nephia clavipes

Male Peucetia viridans

sep 22 0140 peucetia viridans

Male injectors of Peucetia viridans

sep 22 0144 peucetia viridans injectors

Male and female Nephila clavipes

sep 22 0147 male female nephila clavipes

Male and female Nephila clavipes

sep 22 0151 male female nephila clavipes

Gasteracantha crancriformis

sep 22 0171 gasteracantha weaving

Gasteracantha crancriformis weaving

sep 22 0172 gasteracantha weaving

Gasteracantha crancriformis weaving

sep 22 0173 gasteracantha weaving

Gasteracantha crancriformis weaving. Note the glue drops

sep 22 0178 gasteracantha weaving

Gasteracantha crancriformis weaving. Note the blurred glue drops

sep 22 0183 gasteracantha posterior

Argyrodes nephilae

sep 22 0193 argyrodes nephilae

Argyrodes nephilae

sep 22 0198 argyrodes nephilae

Argyrodes nephilae

sep 22 0203 argyrodes nephilae

Argyrodes nephilae

sep 22 0204 argyrodes nephilae

Argyrodes nephilae collecting silk

sep 22 0206 argyrodes nephilae

Wet web

sep 22 0208 wet web

Two wet lovebugs

sep 22 0210 wet lovebugs

Wet web

sep 22 0219 wet web

Face of Peucetia viridans

sep 22 0231 peucetia viridans normal light

Lateral view of Peucetia viridans

sep 22 0243 peucetia viridans normal light

UV illumination of Peucetia viridans

sep 22 0246 peucetia viridans 365 uv

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