Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


August 23, 2008:Rain and web repair

It was pouring rain today - as you can see below. I waited at the bus stop. I thought - hmmm - I wonder what happens after the rain destroys a web?

aug 23 0752 rain

The bus stop - dry

aug 23 0756 waiting bus place

Thought I would try a bit of time-lapse photography - the blur of a bus

aug 23 0764 bus blur

MOre light trails

aug 23 0774 rain blur

and a bus blur

aug 23 0778 bus blur

Life through a rain drop

aug 23 2252 web drops

An Argiope with rain drops on the perimeter of her web

aug 23 0808 argiope web ventral

A better view of the pearl rain drops

aug 23 0812 argiope wide

Side view of Argiope and web

aug 23 0828 side web argiope aug 23 2219 argiope side web

Another view of Argiope

aug 23 2225 leaf lighting

Argiope ventral view

aug 23 2246 argiope ventral

Another view from the side

aug 23 2250 argiope side close

Argiope skating on rain drops

aug 23 0886 argiope skating wet web

A Nephila web

aug 23 0843 nephila weaving web

The store of meals and the web matrix

aug 23 0845 nephila matrix

Reweaving segments after the rain

aug 23 0864 nephila circum matrix

More reweaving

aug 23 0879 nephila repair

A web of rain drops

aug 23 2209 web drops

Nephila weaving circumferentical strands. However these are white, not yellow strands.

aug 23 2212 nephila weaving circ

Turning to weave the next circumferential element

aug 23 2216 nephila weaving turn

More weaving - from a different perspective on the other side of her web

Nephila weaving

A skipper

aug 23 2229 skipper

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C. Frank Starmer

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