This guy was just resting on a leaf - and did not notice me.
He noticed me and went to the nearest vine (blackberry)
Fun - Mating stick bugs
Tetragnatha hiding behind a grape leaf
Very heavy dew this morning - note the drops on her legs and abdomen
Upside down Tetragnatha hanging on to her horizontal web
Tetragnatha - good view of her big jaws and fangs and eyes
Leucauge venusta on her horizontal web
A closer view - you can see the some drops of dew make a magnifying glass - notic on her left rear leg
Golden Silk Spider weaving her web at 5am, (Nephila clavipes)
Moon hiding behind clouds
Its about 8am now - more light and here is Nephila clavipes in her golden silk web. Her fiber, I understand, is the strongest natural fiber known - stronger than kevlar
A closer view
I disturbed her web - so now she is rebuilding it. Here you see her extruding silk from her spinnerets
Web weaving requires acrobatic positions
Another view
More weaving and extrusion - the extruded fiber appears not as thick as above
Dorsal view of Nephila clavipes
And more acrobatics
A view of her spinnerets
In different light - you see the yellow color of her silk
A snowy egret as I walk home
She decided to takeoff - note the droplets of water dropping from her feet
In flight
Two sandhill cranes behind my home
Red head - sort of like Susan's hair - but her's is not the same red :)
Eye of a sandhill crane
Rain finished and she is looking for worms to eat
She found a nice worm in the grass - and takes lunch
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C. Frank Starmer