Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


May 16,2015: Tetragnatha sp. mating and more

Her incomplete web - to complete, she adds additional circumferential elements and vertical stabilimenta

oct 17 4339 before stabilimenta

YouTube video of weaving circumferential strands - revealing the dynamics of spinnerets (at 40 sec - better at 1 min). With her 4th right leg, she appears to pull a radial strand to her spinneret for anchoring the circumferential strand

oct 17 8478 pink flower

oct 17 8484 extruding single strand

oct 17 8542 before stabilimenta

oct 17 8604 close weaving glue droplets

oct 17 8604 weaving glue droplets

oct 17 8636 extruding multiple strands

oct 17 8647 extruding silk sheets

oct 17 8654 extruding multiple strands

oct 17 8669 argiope stabilimenta

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C. Frank Starmer

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