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Shot in the morning with the sun directly behind and to the right. Did not realize i had captured all this color until i looked at the photos at home.
A seadon of mists and mellow fruitfulness.
Morning droplets on a web hanging between the quince on the ornamental shrub by the back door.
"Spiders in the family Uloboridae are called cribellate orb weavers. Rather than relying on sticky silk to trap prey, the Uloboridae silk entraps insects by entangling their legs. The special silk is pulled from a field of very fine set of spinneret "spigots", called the cribellum, and spun with a "back-combing" movement of a special comb on the spider’s rear legs. It has been shown the process of "back-combing" imparts an electrostatic charge onto the silk, causing it to attract small objects in the vicinity (insect legs) and helps to ensnare the unfortunate prey.
This tiny spider has incorporated stabilimenta in her web. Stabilimenta are conspicuous lines or spirals of silk, included by many diurnal spiders at the center of their otherwise cryptic webs. It has been shown spider webs using stabilimenta catch, on average, 34% fewer insects than those without. However, webs with the easily-visible markings are damaged far less frequently by birds flying through the web. It is an evolutionary tradeoff the spider can influence every time it builds a new web. The inclusion of stabilimenta is influenced by many factors, including prey density and web location."
Facing my biggest fear (I hate spiders!!)...and they look even worse spinning their web through a macro lens!
12 November, 2012.
A very foggy morning, two weeks after Hurricane Sandy, and for some reason there are spiderwebs everywhere.
The sun light casting down through the canopy of the woods was just beautiful.
Taken in Oversley Woods.
Wet spider web on an early morning at the Torronsuo Swamp in Finland. Sunlight hits the water drops on the web.
I liked the highlights in the background. Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens, Fort Bragg, California.
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An extensive web on the cedar tree in my front yard very early on a misty morning--Charlotte Court House, Virginia
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