Nursery Web Spiderlings
Fascinating to be able to watch the progress of this batch of baby Nursery Web Spiders. They emerged from the egg sack several days ago and now wander around in the big "nursery" web during the day - under the watchful eye of Mom. But in the evening, they form one or two big balls, like this. I speculate that this is a way to make them look less edible to nighttime predators.
Nursery Web Spiderlings
Fascinating to be able to watch the progress of this batch of baby Nursery Web Spiders. They emerged from the egg sack several days ago and now wander around in the big "nursery" web during the day - under the watchful eye of Mom. But in the evening, they form one or two big balls, like this. I speculate that this is a way to make them look less edible to nighttime predators.