One's Gain, Another's Death. Stretch Spider, Tetragnatha extensa, and Dasyhelea sp., Midge, on Perfoliate Alexanders, Smyrnium perfoliatum, Hortus Botanicus, and Zeedijk 25, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Volgens Rede en Road' - By Reason and Cunning - reads an antiquating decorative facing brick in the wall of Zeedijk 25 here in Amsterdam. It pictures a Spider which has just completed its handsome web.
The filaments this morning in the Hortus Botanicus by a Stretch Spider, Tetragnatha extensa, under two umbels of Perfoliate Alexanders were not nearly as regular and 'handsome' as those of that decoration. But there was apparently enough reason and cunning in these arachnidan lines to have become fatal for a wee male Midge, Dasyhelea sp. (see my posting of a few days ago: www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/47635243192/in/photost...). And Spider has gained a meal.
One's Gain, Another's Death. Stretch Spider, Tetragnatha extensa, and Dasyhelea sp., Midge, on Perfoliate Alexanders, Smyrnium perfoliatum, Hortus Botanicus, and Zeedijk 25, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
'Volgens Rede en Road' - By Reason and Cunning - reads an antiquating decorative facing brick in the wall of Zeedijk 25 here in Amsterdam. It pictures a Spider which has just completed its handsome web.
The filaments this morning in the Hortus Botanicus by a Stretch Spider, Tetragnatha extensa, under two umbels of Perfoliate Alexanders were not nearly as regular and 'handsome' as those of that decoration. But there was apparently enough reason and cunning in these arachnidan lines to have become fatal for a wee male Midge, Dasyhelea sp. (see my posting of a few days ago: www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/47635243192/in/photost...). And Spider has gained a meal.