Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

A very productive morning. I found Oxyopes who was covering her eggs with a silk blanket. Tried a few closups of the extrustion and a video. Focus problems with the video - but you get the general idea.

But think about this behavior. How is the egg laying behavior programmed in her small small network of neurons - or does the programming come from some other structure. Amazingly complex for a small small spider

Extruding a ribbon of silk from her spinnerets

Interesting cricket - or something similar

This Oriental Whip Snake Ahaetulla - sleeping in a Melastoma bush

Whip snake face

Male Oxyopes

White moth

Moth

White moth

White moth

White moth

Neoscona

Oxyopes with a moth breakfast

Dragonfly

Eyes of a dragonfly

Mom Oxyopes and freshly hatched babies

Female Argiope aemula

Male Argiope aemula

Extruding a silk blanket

Extrusion from spinnerets

Extrusion

A ribbon of silk

Extruding silk blanket

Thomisus guangxicus

Cyrtophora and eggs

C. Frank Starmer

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