A surprise this morning. Was walking past the pond (below) to the rice fields and found an Oxyopes completing her egg laying
Here she is with her eggs
And apparently weaving a cover blanket
Video of the weaving
Guarding her eggs
More guarding
Here spinnerets - where small ribbon of silk is being extruded
Guarding
Covering her eggs with a silk blanket (note the narrow ribbon of silk at her spinneret
Walking back - A butterfly
And prepping the rice field for planting
Betty Shelton's VOCM church
C. Frank Starmer