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The webbing was in awesome shape and still strong so we do not have to replace the entire bottom. The springs are also great. I just had to add more string and knots and tack them to re-enforce them.
TAXONOMY
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Asteroidea (Starfish or sea stars)
Order: Forcipulatida
Family: Asteriidae
Genus/species: Asterina miniata
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: Colors may be colored red, orange, brown, purple or mottled. They have webbing between their short, triangular arms, which gives them a batlike look. Size is up to 20 cm (eight inches) across. Radially symmetrical they normally have five arms, but they occasionally have as many as nine arms. They have tube-feet that allow locomotion.
DISTRIBUTION/HABITAT: Sitka, Alaska to Baja California, Mexico. Found in low intertidal areas on rocks overgrown with surfgrass, large algae and sponges. Depth intertidal to 290 m (950 ft) on rocky or sandy substrates.
DIET IN THE WILD: Sensors at the end of each arm that sense light and detect prey. Typically an omnivore or scavenger: surfgrass, algae, colonial tunicates, organic films on hard surfaces, as well as other seastars. Like most seastars, feeds by everting its stomach over prey.
PREDATORS Other sea stars, molluscs, and crustaceans. Like some other sea stars, bat stars can sometimes avoid predation by secreting chemicals that evoke flight responses in other animals.
REPRODUCTION The sexes are separate with sperm and eggs broadcast into the sea where fertilization occurs. The eggs and sperm are released from five pores on the upper surface of the body, one each between the arms.
REMARKS: When two bat stars bump into each other, a gentle brawl begins. They seem to be “arm wrestling” in a slow motion skirmish where no winner is usually obvious.
Bat stars lack the pedicillariae, or pincers, common to most other sea stars and used to clear
the animal of unwanted parasites and other debris. Even so, bat stars are free of debris, perhaps because small, constantly moving hairs (cilia) discourage settling
Sea stars have endoskeletons made up of plates (calcified ossicles) joined by connective tissue to protect the bat star’s vital organs. The bat star’s ossicles are so large and defined that they look like rough shingles.
REMARKS: SEA STAR WASTING SYNDROME has become a major issue in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. For an excellent summary check this link to the University of Santa Cruz 9-9-14. www.eeb.ucsc.edu/pacificrockyintertidal/data-products/sea...
Fitzgerald Marine Reserve.
www.fitzgeraldreserve.org/newffmrsite/wp-content/uploads/...
References
California Academy of Sciences Coastal Marine, Tidepool
Monterey Bay Aquarium www.montereybayaquarium.org/animal-guide/invertebrates/ba...
U. of Michigan Animal Diversity Web animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Patiria_miniata/
Ron's flickr www.flickr.com/photos/cas_docents/sets/72157608501343477/
Ron's Wordpress shortlink wp.me/p1DZ4b-to
4-1-13, 9-30-14, 11-23-15
Webbing clothes moth. Adult moths are 3/8 to ½ inch, cream colored and elongate. In New York, the more common webbing clothes moth has a tuft of reddish hairs on its head. Larvae are caterpillars that feed on animal materials with keratin and cause the damage associated with this pest As larvae chew fibers, they may incorporate threads into a case to camoflauge themselves. This image shows a clothes moth adult, the case that would have been used by the larvae, and the exoskeleton of the pupae (structure sticking out of the red/blue case on the right). For more information: www.nysipm.cornell.edu/whats_bugging_you/fabric_pests/def...
Small shorebird. Short neck, small head. Short, stout, straight bill. Webbing at the base of its toes which is hard to see and is not diagnostic, as other sandpipers also have these webbed feet.
Dark grey-brown on top and white underneath. Light grey-brown on head and neck. Fine streaks on breast and sides. Faint streaking on the breast, clean flanks. Black centre of rump and tail. Breeding plumage is mottled black-and-brown, with little or no rufous coloration. Black bill and legs.
Breeds in the southern tundra in Canada and Alaska near water. Migrates through central North America to the Atlantic coast to reach its wintering grounds from the extreme southern U.S. to the Caribbean Islands and South America.
This is spider webbing on a stem of native Wedge-leaved Horkelia (Horkelia cuneata, Rosaceae), with the spider inside. This is a small Mesh Web Weaver in the family Dictynidae, maybe genus Dictyna itself. This is another example of cribillate webbing, it has a frizzy texture like the webbing in this photo and this photo. I already have my two photos for the Web Wednesday group, but Happy Web Webnesday anyway! (San Marcos Pass, 31 August 2025)
These small caterpillars are doing some real damage to the new flower buds of (I think) Mexican Bush Sage (Salvia leucantha, Lamiaceae) in the garden. I found this one on a narrow leaf near the flowers. It might be the same kind as I showed in this photo a few days ago, but it is larger and brown rather than green. I believe from the number of prolegs that it really is a caterpillar (Lepidoptera) and not a sawfly larva. It also has some webbing - I'll try to get a better photo for the Web Wednesday group if I can find it again. (San Marcos Pass, 3 October 2020)
Key fob made with black webbing and purple polka dot ribbon and monogrammed in lavender using the Marie font.
recycled materials.
adjustable belt, woven through rings
natural (light beige) cotton webbing, 11 clear plastic shower curtain rings, white adjustable buckle and closure
This seemed to be a common scene for many on campus. Folks would stretch webbing between two trees and walk back and forth. These guys have a real sense of balance!
recycled materials.
adjustable belt / necklace with woven rings
natural (pale beige) cotton webbing with 11 black shower curtain rings woven across; black buckle, black closure
TAXONOMY
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Asteroidea (Starfish or sea stars)
Order: Forcipulatida
Family: Asteriidae
Genus/species: Asterina miniata
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: Colors may be colored red, orange, brown, purple or mottled. They have webbing between their short, triangular arms, which gives them a batlike look. Size is up to 20 cm (eight inches) across. Radially symmetrical they normally have five arms, but they occasionally have as many as nine arms. They have tube-feet that allow locomotion.
DISTRIBUTION/HABITAT: Sitka, Alaska to Baja California, Mexico. Found in low intertidal areas on rocks overgrown with surfgrass, large algae and sponges. Depth intertidal to 290 m (950 ft) on rocky or sandy substrates.
DIET IN THE WILD: Sensors at the end of each arm that sense light and detect prey. Typically an omnivore or scavenger: surfgrass, algae, colonial tunicates, organic films on hard surfaces, as well as other seastars. Like most seastars, feeds by everting its stomach over prey.
PREDATORS Other sea stars, molluscs, and crustaceans. Like some other sea stars, bat stars can sometimes avoid predation by secreting chemicals that evoke flight responses in other animals.
REPRODUCTION The sexes are separate with sperm and eggs broadcast into the sea where fertilization occurs. The eggs and sperm are released from five pores on the upper surface of the body, one each between the arms.
REMARKS: When two bat stars bump into each other, a gentle brawl begins. They seem to be “arm wrestling” in a slow motion skirmish where no winner is usually obvious.
Bat stars lack the pedicillariae, or pincers, common to most other sea stars and used to clear
the animal of unwanted parasites and other debris. Even so, bat stars are free of debris, perhaps because small, constantly moving hairs (cilia) discourage settling
Sea stars have endoskeletons made up of plates (calcified ossicles) joined by connective tissue to protect the bat star’s vital organs. The bat star’s ossicles are so large and defined that they look like rough shingles.
REMARKS: SEA STAR WASTING SYNDROME has become a major issue in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. For an excellent summary check this link to the University of Santa Cruz 9-9-14. www.eeb.ucsc.edu/pacificrockyintertidal/data-products/sea...
Fitzgerald Marine Reserve.
www.fitzgeraldreserve.org/newffmrsite/wp-content/uploads/...
References
California Academy of Sciences Coastal Marine, Tidepool
Monterey Bay Aquarium www.montereybayaquarium.org/animal-guide/invertebrates/ba...
U. of Michigan Animal Diversity Web animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Patiria_miniata/
Ron's flickr www.flickr.com/photos/cas_docents/sets/72157608501343477/
Ron's Wordpress shortlink wp.me/p1DZ4b-to
4-1-13, 9-30-14, 11-23-15
This quality drop leg accessories pouch can serve as both dump pouch and utility pouch. It features one main compartment that goes with a small internal pouch that is sealed with Velcro. The main compartment itself is sealed with one large zipper for easy access and a smaller 'dump' zipper. The pouch can be easily attached to the thigh and to the duty belt with detachable Velcro straps as well as to every MOLLE webbing vest, bag or backpack. There is also some 1" MOLLE webbing on front and back of the bag for attaching pouches and accessories.
Key fob made with black webbing and shocking pink polka dot ribbon and monogrammed in black using the Marie font.
This is spider webbing strung between on a stem of Deerweed (Acmispon glaber, Fabaceae). I believe this is a Mesh Web Weaver spider in the family Dictynidae. The spider is actually in the photo but too small to see, I'll make a note. Happy Web Webnesday! (San Marcos Pass, 2 October 2021)
Been noodling this for a month or so. Works well in theory. Let- see how it goes.
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- Taken at 5:29 PM on July 13, 2008 - cameraphone upload by ShoZu
note the spider webs...the 'glue' of the nest
To view my set documenting this Hummingbird family (including my notes) click here.
This is another shot of a shroud of webbing covering leaves of a non-native weed along our road today. I believe the plant is American Black Nightshade (Solanum americum aka Solanum nodiflorum, Solanaceae) and the webbing is the work of Spider Mites (family Tetranychidae, Acari, Arachnida). I have a shot of a single mite with this photo from yesterday, and you can see many more of them as the tiny orange specks on the web in this photo. Not all the specks are mites, I guess the rest are frass or mite poop. In time they will strip the plant, and I'm glad I've only seen them on this one weed and not on natives or our garden plants. Happy Web Webnesday! (San Marcos Pass, 21 October 2020)
This is spider webbing strung between old seed whorls of native Black Sage (Salvia mellifera, Lamiaceae). I believe this is the work of a Mesh Web Weaver spider in the family Dictynidae, see this photo of the kind of tiny spider responsible. The webbing joins the seed whorls like rigging on a dusty ship model. I have no doubt that the spider is in one of those empty seed pockets maybe looking right at me. Happy Web Wednesday! (San Marcos Pass, 2 August 2023)
The length for the white rope is about 66" Eleven dots and crosses are needed not ten. Ten crosses have plenty of holding power but are less than Beal's version and put a nasty twist in the webbing when attaching the bungee top point between the webbing the way I do.
TAXONOMY
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Asteroidea (Starfish or sea stars)
Order: Forcipulatida
Family: Asteriidae
Genus/species: Asterina miniata
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: Colors may be colored red, orange, brown, purple or mottled. They have webbing between their short, triangular arms, which gives them a batlike look. Size is up to 20 cm (eight inches) across. Radially symmetrical they normally have five arms, but they occasionally have as many as nine arms. They have tube-feet that allow locomotion.
DISTRIBUTION/HABITAT: Sitka, Alaska to Baja California, Mexico. Found in low intertidal areas on rocks overgrown with surfgrass, large algae and sponges. Depth intertidal to 290 m (950 ft) on rocky or sandy substrates.
DIET IN THE WILD: Sensors at the end of each arm that sense light and detect prey. Typically an omnivore or scavenger: surfgrass, algae, colonial tunicates, organic films on hard surfaces, as well as other seastars. Like most seastars, feeds by everting its stomach over prey.
PREDATORS Other sea stars, molluscs, and crustaceans. Like some other sea stars, bat stars can sometimes avoid predation by secreting chemicals that evoke flight responses in other animals.
REPRODUCTION The sexes are separate with sperm and eggs broadcast into the sea where fertilization occurs. The eggs and sperm are released from five pores on the upper surface of the body, one each between the arms.
REMARKS: When two bat stars bump into each other, a gentle brawl begins. They seem to be “arm wrestling” in a slow motion skirmish where no winner is usually obvious.
Bat stars lack the pedicillariae, or pincers, common to most other sea stars and used to clear
the animal of unwanted parasites and other debris. Even so, bat stars are free of debris, perhaps because small, constantly moving hairs (cilia) discourage settling
Sea stars have endoskeletons made up of plates (calcified ossicles) joined by connective tissue to protect the bat star’s vital organs. The bat star’s ossicles are so large and defined that they look like rough shingles.
REMARKS: SEA STAR WASTING SYNDROME has become a major issue in both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans. For an excellent summary check this link to the University of Santa Cruz 9-9-14. www.eeb.ucsc.edu/pacificrockyintertidal/data-products/sea...
Fitzgerald Marine Reserve.
www.fitzgeraldreserve.org/newffmrsite/wp-content/uploads/...
References
California Academy of Sciences Coastal Marine, Tidepool
Monterey Bay Aquarium www.montereybayaquarium.org/animal-guide/invertebrates/ba...
U. of Michigan Animal Diversity Web animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/Patiria_miniata/
Ron's flickr www.flickr.com/photos/cas_docents/sets/72157608501343477/
Ron's Wordpress shortlink wp.me/p1DZ4b-to
4-1-13, 9-30-14, 11-23-15
Webbing clothes moth. Adult moths are 3/8 to ½ inch, cream colored and elongate. In New York, the more common webbing clothes moth has a tuft of reddish hairs on its head. Larvae are caterpillars that feed on animal materials with keratin and cause the damage associated with this pest As larvae chew fibers, they may incorporate threads into a case to camoflauge themselves. This image shows a clothes moth adult, the case that would have been used by the larvae, and the exoskeleton of the pupae (structure sticking out of the red/blue case on the right). You can also see fecal pellets from the moth larvae, which are attached to the case. For more information: www.nysipm.cornell.edu/whats_bugging_you/fabric_pests/def...