Spider on its nest of California Buckwheat -- genus Eustala?
Here is a tiny Orb-Weaver Spider (Araneidae) on its nest of native California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum, Polygonaceae) that's gone to seed in the woods today. I'm guessing that it's genus Eustala, and maybe species Eustala rosae, compare this photo. The buckwheat flowers are now turning brown as they go to seed, but as the local Santa Barbara author Stewart Edward White once wrote: "The brown of California is the brown of ripeness; not of decay." Arachtober 18. (San Marcos Pass, 18 October 2022)
Spider on its nest of California Buckwheat -- genus Eustala?
Here is a tiny Orb-Weaver Spider (Araneidae) on its nest of native California Buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum, Polygonaceae) that's gone to seed in the woods today. I'm guessing that it's genus Eustala, and maybe species Eustala rosae, compare this photo. The buckwheat flowers are now turning brown as they go to seed, but as the local Santa Barbara author Stewart Edward White once wrote: "The brown of California is the brown of ripeness; not of decay." Arachtober 18. (San Marcos Pass, 18 October 2022)