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Web Photos |
 Send
in your webs! I have heaps of photos of spiders, but very few of
webs, so send them in!
I'll pick a
"WEB OF THE MONTH "
or maybe year going by the lack of photos at present, and feature it
in larger size. There are 2 types of spiders, the hunting spiders
like the wolf spiders and tarantulas and the web spinning spiders
like the Argiopes and Garden Orb Weavers. All spiders can spin silk
but only the web spinning spiders spin webs for their homes.
Many thanks for allowing me to use these photos. All photos are
copyright to their owners and may not be reproduced without
permission.
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APRIL - JULY, 2007 |
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Winner
this month is Krisit's great shot of a web covered in dew. The web
formation is great and this is why I chose this shot!
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20 July, 2007:
Hi! I was browsing your website trying to identify a spider
that we took a video of and noticed you are interested in
spiderweb photos. I have the perfect photo but it doesn't
have the spider in it...just the web. We had a foggy morning
here with dew on everything a couple years ago in the fall.
My husband and I walked around the yard that morning and our
entire yard was covered with spiderwebs. When I came across
this beauty I had to run in and grab my camera! Anyways you
have my permission to post it to your site if you'd like.
I've attached the photo.
Thank you!
Kristi
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16 July, 2007:
Some web
photos of an Garden Orb Weaver and I think a Venusta Orchard
Spider, from Brennan.
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Reply: Really amazing to see these spiders living in such large
colonies. They appear to be some sort of garden orb weaver.
6 June, 2007:
Hi Glen...I found your site while attempting to identify some
spiders that my husband and I found. Last July we were driving
along Walker Lake in Nevada. As we left the roadway and drove
down toward the lake, every single bush, weed, guard rail,
picnic bench...everything was encased in spider webs! The more
we looked, the more spiders we saw...the bushes were simply
alive with spiders...hundreds of thousands of spiders! I'm
creeped out by spiders but this sight was so incredible that we
spent more than an hour photographing them and being awed by
them. The nearest town is Hawthorne and no one we spoke to could
tell us anything about them other than they invade the area
every summer and die out when winter cold hits. Is it common for
so many spiders to live so closely to each other? We really hope
that you might help us to identify them and learn a bit about
this phenomenon. Attached are some of the photos that we took.
These are 4 mega pixel photos, so you can enlarge them to see
them better. In photo P7030009, not only can you count nearly
100 spiders in the one bush, you can see other bushes in the
background encased in webs filled with spiders! Thanks for your
time... John & Cindy
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6 June, 2007:
Hi Glen, Just to keep in touch, some ground webs with rain.
Take care, Eddie
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7 May, 2007:
Hi there,
I thought you might be interested in the following E-mail that I
recently
sent to my grandson. It is self explanatory. If you have the
time to
respond I would be very interested to know if this is a regular
occurrence
or whether we were rather privileged to witness it. We are on
acreage at
Gardners Bay, Tas.
Regards,
Gay
It was a glorious morning, hot and sunny, and Norbie and I
were leaning on the tray of the Dodge in the driveway for
nearly an hour chatting to one of the neighbours. I kept
feeling the 'tickles' and when I turned to walk towards the
house to make some coffee I could see and feel threads of
cobweb pulling from my clothes to both the car and the
fence. When we looked around, we could see more threads that
seemed to be attached to anything and
everything above ground level and they were multiplying
before our very eyes. The paddocks in front, one moment
green in the sun, gradually changed until they appeared to
be covered with drifts of frost. I walked to the fence from
which emerged hundreds more silky threads, each attached to
whatever 'anchor' the tiny spiders could reach in their
first moments as they drifted through the air. We were
experiencing our own special
'Charlott's web' right here at Dolphins Way! the fence posts
and wires were thick with baby spiders and when I walked
into the paddock for a closer look I could see literally
thousands of them clinging to the grass tips. It was truly
the most amazing sight and we felt very privileged to be
able to witness it. Norbert had to go into Cygnet to the
hardware shop and said ours appeared to be the only property
on which the spiders were hatching. Their mothers must have
known it was a safe place to bring them into the world,
don't you think?
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11 April, 2007:
Hello, I live in Northern NSW, just south of Tweed
Heads. I found this amazing web in my garden and photographed it. I
found your site while trying to identify the spider that made this
web It's quite a large web, very intricate, almost like a suspended
parachute. It's messy around the outside but the 'parachute' is
incredibly woven. I took these photos early in March and it's still
there four weeks later. Do you have any idea what it could be?
Please feel free to use these pics. You may need to zoom to fit.
Regards, Jo-Ann |
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