Tiny orb-weaver spider making a new web
Here is a tiny Orb-Weaver Spider (Araneidae) making a new web to replace the one that was knocked down by the wind and rain last week. The new web looks like it has segments of fluorescent light tubes, but that's just some sort of refraction of the sunlight coming from behind. The finished web is only a couple of inched across, see this photo and below. The tiny spider is only a couple of millimeters across. I was thinking it was one of the tiny Labyrinth Spiders (Metepeira) that I've been finding lately, like in this photo, but it doesn't look hairy enough. Maybe it's genus Hypsosinga for its size as much as anything else? Yeah, this photo is similar to this photo and this photo, but there are subtle differences. Happy Web Webnesday! (San Marcos Pass, 1 January 2021)
Tiny orb-weaver spider making a new web
Here is a tiny Orb-Weaver Spider (Araneidae) making a new web to replace the one that was knocked down by the wind and rain last week. The new web looks like it has segments of fluorescent light tubes, but that's just some sort of refraction of the sunlight coming from behind. The finished web is only a couple of inched across, see this photo and below. The tiny spider is only a couple of millimeters across. I was thinking it was one of the tiny Labyrinth Spiders (Metepeira) that I've been finding lately, like in this photo, but it doesn't look hairy enough. Maybe it's genus Hypsosinga for its size as much as anything else? Yeah, this photo is similar to this photo and this photo, but there are subtle differences. Happy Web Webnesday! (San Marcos Pass, 1 January 2021)