Closer
A reg leg
another view
Our Nephila from yesterday
Sitting with folded legs
From the side
Another view
Her web
With Argyrodes
Another view
Then something remarkable. She walked to the side and started doing something. Only later when I returned home, did I realize she was repairing her web.
Inspecting
Hopping over - and you can see the superstructure that overlays the spiral web
Here it appears that she is increasing the tension to pull the edge of the web away from the center
Holding a silk strand with her leg
then pulling it to the superstructure
and back to the edge
and placing it
Here there is an untensioned strand which she will alter
Manipulating the untensioned strands
Not sure what is happening here except there is a strand of silk being extruded from her spinneret
Poorly focused but here she is tensioning the supporting strands
Finally back home
Walking about
Home
Playing with the focal plane, here is an Argyrodes behind the Nephila web
Here I was playing with depth of field. A horizontal web made a nice object to study
Near field:
Far field (right)
in between
C. Frank Starmer