Dolomedes tenebrosus (Fishing spider) that I've never seen fishing. She is always mounted on the side of this tree
I walk around with a flashlight on my forward - a great insect magnet. Here a Neoscona crucifera just caught breakfast and is wrapping her meal
A good view of the ribbon of silk being extruded
Extruding a complex ribbon
Tetragnatha waiting for breakfast
Here is breakfast - a death kiss
Caught
Wrapping breakfast
Extruding a few parallel silk strands
Close view of extruding a ribbon of silk
Tetragnatha extruding and wrapping
Tetragnatha extruding and wrapping
Checking out breakfast
Mosquito
Jumping spider retina (Lyssomanes retina)
No Retina visable
Associating retinal movement with medial eye color changes
Female (black abdomen)Lyssomanes retina
Black Lyssomanes - possibly female
Translucent abdomen Lyssomanes pre-male
Quiet morning
Pre-dawn sounds near my spider laboratory
C. Frank Starmer