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The first ray of dawn light penetrates the forest to illuminate a spider web covered in dew. Note the star the spider has woven into the web at the top.
The human world runs on a whole set of tacit agreements that things are not what they are.
Like this myth of solidity. Nothing is solid. We're all just collections of molecules in motion.
Oh, sure, some of those molecules are packed really tightly. Like the ones in steel. And yes, as per those tacit agreements, we perceive one another... and everything around us... as a disparate collection of unique individuals.
We're not. We're all just clumps of molecules, floating around in a vast soupy stew, shedding bits of ourselves along the way... ingesting bits of others... setting off various chemical reactions and swimming in the consequences.
Or... as the case may be... drowning in them. Suffocating... as the lumps break down and the broth becomes, day by day, more and more homogenous.
Why did this tiny spider build a web with this pattern? Very small (about 1cm across) and horizontal.
Two funnel-web spiders, possibly Labyrinth spiders (Agelena labyrinthica)
Agelena is a genus of agelenid spiders that trap their prey by weaving entangling non-sticky funnel webs. The genus is limited to the Old world, where it occurs from Africa to Japan. (Wikipedia)
7 July 2018, Malvern & Brueton Park LNR, Solihull