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Itsy-bitsy spider on lichens on a tree. I think this is a leafy cobweb spider (Theridion frondeum). If you walk through the woods in the morning and get a facefull of cobwebs, this tiny critter is likely to blame.
West Smithfield. The cobweb doesn't show up on the thumbnail (it didn't on the back of the camera either- I didn't think I'd got it, somehow), and it's not that good at Flickr's web size, but it is there.
We haven't seen the sun up here for over a week, I think, apparently the UK is having a heatwave, an Indian Summer, not here! We have had very calm but very very dull weather, interminable Grey skies, mist and fog, it has been pleasant for walking and working, no gale force "breeze" for a change. The upside to this has been the water covered cobwebs in the garden, they looked fantastic and lingered all day due to the calm and damp weather. I had ignored them until yesterday, I then decided to get the macro lens out again and have a stab at photographing them.
We haven't seen the sun up here for over a week, I think, apparently the UK is having a heatwave, an Indian Summer, not here! We have had very calm but very very dull weather, interminable Grey skies, mist and fog, it has been pleasant for walking and working, no gale force "breeze" for a change. The upside to this has been the water covered cobwebs in the garden, they looked fantastic and lingered all day due to the calm and damp weather. I had ignored them until yesterday, I then decided to get the macro lens out again and have a stab at photographing them.
Image from the COBWEB Co-Design kick off meeting which took place in Machynlleth in October 2014.
Please attribute this images to Crona Hodges, COBWEB project.
Any and all man made structures provide a ready made starting point for the local spiders to build a web.
I was trying to take a picture of this cobweb clump thingy on my deck, only to have one of the cats come up behind me and eat it. And then walk off looking very smug. Jerk.
Black widows are the most famous, or infamous, of the cobweb weavers in the family Theridiidae, but other species like this little Steatoda triangulosa, are not dangerous and quite attractively patterned.
Here’s another cobweb I’ve found on a pine tree. I covered my head with my jacket’s hood, poked my head into the foliage and snapped this shot. I was so close to other cobwebs in the tree that my glasses got smeared with them (thank God, NOT my camera)
Since it looks nothing like Spiderweb Jasper, I'm calling it Cobweb for now. Comes from the exact center of a road, which makes it interesting to dig. Black, hard, and very pretty. The best pieces are solid black with pure white veining, but some pieces fade to grey.
I don't know how this cuts, but it polishes horribly. All those pretty white and blue lines disappear and it doesn't take a great shine.