Dead-looking Prickly-Phlox with spider webs
Here is spider webbing on a dead-looking branch of native Prickly-Phlox (Leptodactylon californicum, Polemoniaceae). Look again - the branch has some green buds for the new rain year, compare this photo of a plant before and after greening up. I'm not sure, but this might be "cribellate" webbing which is fuzzy and lacks any kind of sticky stuff, see this photo for another example that runs between whorls of flowers instead of leaves. Maybe this is the work of a cribellate species of Mesh Web Weaver in the family Dictynidae? Happy Web Webnesday! (San Marcos Pass, 6 November 2018)
Dead-looking Prickly-Phlox with spider webs
Here is spider webbing on a dead-looking branch of native Prickly-Phlox (Leptodactylon californicum, Polemoniaceae). Look again - the branch has some green buds for the new rain year, compare this photo of a plant before and after greening up. I'm not sure, but this might be "cribellate" webbing which is fuzzy and lacks any kind of sticky stuff, see this photo for another example that runs between whorls of flowers instead of leaves. Maybe this is the work of a cribellate species of Mesh Web Weaver in the family Dictynidae? Happy Web Webnesday! (San Marcos Pass, 6 November 2018)