Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning

Bob's home is in the middle of the jungle overlooking a river. The thick undergrowth provides a great place for observing spider behavior. His home from the river

Looking out the window

The dining room

The living room

The kitchen

Morning Porch

Morning stairs

Looking out from the bedroom

The pool by day

The evening pool

Evening reading

and dinner

Meanwhile, back in the morning - an early morning walk

Walking past a rice field

Walking down a hill, then to the river and looking up the steps

Then back to Bob's and a bit of spider watching. Here is an Argiope sometimes known as a writing spider because of the way they decorate their web.

This little guy is an unknown

From Google Images, this appears to be a day flying moth

Nephila does many interesting things, but this was the first time I observed her decorating her web. The zig-zag patterns are know as stabilimentum - and it is rare to find this in a Nephila web. Note the golden color of her silk - characteristic of her family

This was fun, though I almost tumbled down a steep hill. Looking up into her web. There is a little kleptoparasite to the left - nibbling away at her web

From a slightly different angle - so see more of her abdomen

Not to be outdone, here is an Argiope with a small stabilimentum.

This guy was crawling around on the ground. No identification yet

and above, a very interesting damselfly

Looking at our lady from the side, with the Argyrodes to the left. These little kleptoparsites just add a bit of color to the already colorful web

And then there was evening of the first day and a full moon

C. Frank Starmer

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