Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


October 19, 2007:Miagrammopes and Nephila

Holding a tangle ball with her 2nd pair of front legs. Also holding dinner between her palps

oct 19 0552 tensioning strand oct 19 0558 miagrammopes legs abdomen

oct 19 0564 miagrammopes dorsal

oct 19 0580 eyes palps oct 19 0597 hanging from leaf

Cribellate Silk and what I call a tangle ball that unwinds when an insect collides with the strand

oct_19_0602_cribellate_tension_ball.jpg oct 19 0603 cribellate silk strand

In the spider configuration

oct 19 0608 miagrammopes unwound

A big dinner

oct 19 0613 dinner oct 19 0616 miagrammopes dinner

oct 19 0653 caught fly

oct 19 0505 infant nephila

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