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As you see, the web is above the gutter level of the roof, which is about twenty-five to thirty feet. Must've been good insect eats. The berries are sterile, or, at least, none of our trees have produced offspring in past few years.
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Not had much opportunity of late to get my camera out as Christmas has taken over and children have been poorly. However when I spotted this frosty web outside my house this morning I couldn't resist the opportunity!
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Set as cover photo for Explore Reloaded! on 2 April 2024.
This spider was making a web when I found it, I shot this at 300mm and used my flash on the camera. The lighter spot was a leaf reflecting light, I tried to align it up with the spider and the shadows went dark, image was cropped.
Pisaurina mira is a species of spider in the family Pisauridae, the members of which are commonly called, nursery web spiders They are similar to wolf spiders and to the long-legged water spiders.
Like other members of the Pisauridae, Pisaurina mira carries its eggs along with it in a sac that is secured both by a thread of silk linking it to the spider's spinnerets and by being held by the spider's chelicerae. When the eggs are nearly ready to hatch the mother will build a nursery web within which the egg sac is then hung. After they hatch, and until they undergo their first molt, the infant spiders will inhabit the rather large volume enclosed by this nursery web. The mother spider will station herself nearby in order to defend the nursery. (EOL)
I did not see what was curled up in the leaf she is sitting on, but I suspect she is defending an egg sac attached inside.
