Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

This was a fun morning. I found an Argiope but with only minimal stabalimenta. Here she is in the ventral presentation

From the side

From a different side angle

Here is an interesting profile of the web

I disturbed her web and here is the empty web

She climbed and hid on the top of a leaf.

I walked away to give her time to move back to her web and saw this leaf hopper

Then here she is again - ventral presentation

Close

This time when I disturbed her web, she hid under the same leaf

Another view

And another view

Now a surprise. I found this small Nephila with a large collection of what appears to be dinners above her

I disturbed her web and instead of racing for the periphery, she curled up like a piece of debris

Then she returned to her web

In the resting positoin

Back to the Argiope - a side presentation

A grasshopper

And a yellow flower

And another view of the same yellow flower

C. Frank Starmer

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