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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
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.
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...
A horseman takes a break from ploughing to pose for the camera of Ipswich based photographer The Titshall Brothers in around 1930.
These cute little coin purses are made from old lawn chair webbing. I usally send my unmounted stamps in one of these little pouches to keep it protected.
Spiders aren't the only ones! These are caterpillars of a Variable Checkerspot (Euphydryas chalcedona) butterfly on a native plant of California Figwort aka California Bee Plant (Scrophularia californica, Scrophulariaceae) the woods a couple of days ago. The caterpillars are quite social when they first emerge, and they make communal nests of webbing to shroud their host plant as they feed. They are web-spinners, and they eat the leaves as they cover them with their shroud-like webbing. They will feed into the summer, and then they form tough skins and drop to the forest floor to over-winter. Finally they emerge, eat and get fat, and pupate into adults next year. Tents now mean butterflies next year. Usually I find these caterpillars of "scrophs" -- plants that were once placed in the Scrophulariaceae plant family like Climbing Penstemon and Bush Monkeyflower. Happy Web Webnesday! (San Marcos Pass, 14 July 2025)
Greater racket-tailed Drongo
The greater racket-tailed drongo (Dicrurus paradiseus) is a medium-sized Asian bird which is distinctive in having elongated outer tail feathers with webbing restricted to the tips. They are placed along with other drongos in the family Dicruridae. They are conspicuous in the forest habitats often perching in the open and by attracting attention with a wide range of loud calls that include perfect imitations of many other birds. One hypothesis suggested is that these vocal imitations may help in the formation of mixed-species foraging flocks, a feature seen in forest bird communities where many insect feeders forage together. These drongos will sometimes steal insect prey caught or disturbed by other foragers in the flock and another ideas is that vocal mimicry helps them in diverting the attention of smaller birds to aid their piracy. They are diurnal but are active well before dawn and late at dusk. Owing to their widespread distribution and distinctive regional variation, they have become iconic examples of speciation by isolation and genetic drift.
The greater racket-tailed drongo was described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1766 in the twelfth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Cuculus paradiseus. It was one of 240 bird species that Linnaeus added to his twelfth edition based on the 1760 work Ornithologie by the French naturalist Mathurin Jacques Brisson. The current genus Dicrurus was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot in 1816.
There are 13 recognised subspecies:
D. p. grandis (Gould, 1836) – north India through west and north Myanmar and south China to north Indochina
D. p. rangoonensis (Gould, 1836) – central India through Bangladesh, central Myanmar and north Thailand to central Indochina
D. p. paradiseus (Linnaeus, 1766) – south India to south Thailand, north Malay Peninsula and south Indochina
D. p. johni (Hartert, 1902) – Hainan Island (off southeast China)
D. p. ceylonicus Vaurie, 1949 – Sri Lanka
D. p. otiosus (Richmond, 1902) – Andaman Islands
D. p. nicobariensis (Baker, ECS, 1918) – Nicobar Islands
D. p. hypoballus (Oberholser, 1926) – central Malay Peninsula
D. p. platurus Vieillot, 1817 – south Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and nearby islands
D. p. microlophus (Oberholser, 1917 – islands in the South China Sea (Tioman Island, Anambas Islands and the North Natuna Islands)
D. p. brachyphorus (Bonaparte, 1850) – Borneo
D. p. banguey (Chasen & Kloss, 1929) – islands off north Borneo
D. p. formosus (Cabanis, 1851) – Java
In most of its range in Asia, this is the largest of the drongo species and is readily identifiable by the distinctive tail rackets and the crest of curled feather that begin in front of the face above the beak and along the crown to varying extents according to the subspecies. The tail with twirled rackets is distinctive and in flight it can appear as if two large bees were chasing a black bird. In the eastern Himalayas the species can be confused with the lesser racket-tailed drongo, however the latter has flat rackets with the crest nearly absent.
This widespread species includes populations that have distinct variations and several subspecies have been named. The nominate form is found in southern India, mainly in forested areas of the Western Ghats and the adjoining hill forests of peninsular India. The subspecies in Sri Lanka is ceylonicus and is similar to the nominate form but slightly smaller. The subspecies found along the Himalayas is grandis and is the largest and has long glossy neck hackles. The Andaman Islands form otiosus has shorter neck hackles and the crest is highly reduced while the Nicobars Island form nicobariensis has a longer frontal crest and with smaller neck hackles than otiosus. The Sri Lanka drongo (D. lophorinus) used to be treated as a subspecies as it was believed to form hybrids with ceylonicus but is now considered a separate species on the basis of their overlapping ranges. Specimens of the nominate form have sometimes been confused with the Sri Lanka drongo. Considerable variation in shape of the bill, extent of the crest, hackles and tail rackets exists in the island populations of Southeast Asia. The Bornean brachyphorus (=insularis), banguey of Banggai lack crests (banguey has frontal feathers that arch forwards) while very reduced crests are found in microlophus (=endomychus; Natunas, Anambas and Tiomans) and platurus (Sumatra). A number of forms are known along the Southeast Asian islands and mainland including formosus (Java), hypoballus (Thailand), rangoonensis (northern Burma, central Indian populations were earlier included in this) and johni (Hainan).
Young birds are duller, and can lack a crest while moulting birds can lack the elongate tail streamers. The racket is formed by the inner web of the vane but appears to be on the outer web since the rachis has a twist just above the spatula.
The distribution range of this species extends from the western Himalayas to the eastern Himalayas and Mishmi Hills in the foothills below 1,200 m (3,900 ft). They are found in the hills of peninsular India and the Western Ghats. Continuing into the west to the islands of Borneo and Java in the east through the mainland and islands.
They common whistle note that is made leads to its local name in many parts of India of kothwal (which means a "policeman" or "guard", who used a whistle that produced a similar note), a name also applied to the black drongo and in other places as the Bhimraj or Bhringaraj. In Mizo language of northeast India, it is called Vakul and the Mizo people regarded the bird as ' 'king of the birds' ' Prior to the 1950s it was often kept in captivity by people in parts of India. It was said to be very hardy and like a crow, accommodating a varied diet. Edward H. Schafer considered the greater racket-tailed drongo as the basis for the divine kalaviṅka birds mentioned in Chinese and Japanese Buddhist texts.
recycled materials.
adjustable belt, woven through rings
natural (light beige) cotton webbing, 11 clear plastic shower curtain rings, white adjustable buckle and closure
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