Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

When last seen, our litle orange assassin bug was busy doing something around the flowers of a small something

Here is the retracted nose position

Upside down

and you can see some small yellow particles on her snout and front legs. I suspect she is harvesting pollen

A little further along was what I call a tent web. I'll figure out what the proper name is. Here, spanning cedar branches is the tent. Near the back on the right side is the occupant

From the side

and from the front

Next was a small Micrathena mitrata who was weaving the circumferential elements of her web. THe little white puffs of silk are the stabilimenta, web decorations of unknown utility.

Here you can see the circumferential spiral develop as she adds the decorations.

Next was a large group of orangish flowers and another unknown insect

And then probably a Neoscona with only half a web

Then a full web without an occupant

and our friendly caterpillar busy munching away on a leaf

C. Frank Starmer

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