Spider webbing on Prickly-Phlox
This is webbing between dead-looking leaves of native Prickly-Phlox (Leptodactylon californicum, Polemoniaceae). This is more webbing that looks like rigging on a dusty model ship, compare this photo of similar webbing on a different shrub. I believe this is the work of a cribellate species of Mesh Web Weaver in the family Dictynidae, and I have a shot of the tiny spider associated with such webbing in this photo from last spring. I'm still hoping these dead-looking shrubs will revive after our recent rain, and I can see a green leaf bud on this stem even before the rain. Happy Web Webnesday! (San Marcos Pass, 25 December 2020)
Spider webbing on Prickly-Phlox
This is webbing between dead-looking leaves of native Prickly-Phlox (Leptodactylon californicum, Polemoniaceae). This is more webbing that looks like rigging on a dusty model ship, compare this photo of similar webbing on a different shrub. I believe this is the work of a cribellate species of Mesh Web Weaver in the family Dictynidae, and I have a shot of the tiny spider associated with such webbing in this photo from last spring. I'm still hoping these dead-looking shrubs will revive after our recent rain, and I can see a green leaf bud on this stem even before the rain. Happy Web Webnesday! (San Marcos Pass, 25 December 2020)