Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


May 23, 2007: A new visitor to Queenstown: Nephila pilipes color morph.

This was this morning

may 23 1759 queens

and this afternoon, I visited my spot. Found several ants crawling around the core of the Simpoh flower

may 23 1784 ant

Another

may 23 1794 ant simpoh

This Nephila kuhli may be the same as N. pilipes color morph except she has a reddish and yellow spot near her cephalothorax

may 23 1804 nephila side

A closer look at the reddish and yellowish regions

may 23 1815 nephila ventral close

and a friendly Argyrodes just whiling away the time

may 23 1829 argyrodes

A good view of her spinneret and the dragline

may 23 1840 nephila spinneret

Here is her web

may 23 1860 nephila web

Her abdomen with lower sunlight (near 7pm)

may 23 1899 nephila ventral

and the reddish and yellowish spots

may 23 1901 nephila ventral spots

And a view with little sunlight

may 23 1918 nephila ventral

another ant

may 23 1871 ant

and what I call a tiger-hopper

may 23 1885 tiger hopper

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C. Frank Starmer

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