Yesterday morning we had another lovely foggy start. I headed over to the Conte Refuge in Hadley to shoot, again, a walnut grove with straight rows and some mystery at the end of the row. Once done with that I walked the trail and noticed dozens or probably hundreds of dewy spider webs. They are hard to miss, especially when backlit by the rising sun.
I didn’t inventory them all, but the vast majority if not every one were Banded Yellow Garden Spiders which are another lovely species.
Banded Argiope-Argiope trifasciata. This one along with all its silk stands was covered with tiny dew drops.
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You did a good job getting the background muted and amorphous—the better to highlight the spider and web.
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The combination of 180 and doubler narrowed the depth of field making the background, which was several feet distant, much easier to soften.
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I rarely see such a beautifully symmetrical web. They’re surely around, but nearly all of the garden spiders I see have strung their webs across openings and I run into them before I see them. Of course, dew would make them easier to spot.
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I wasn’t sure what I was going to find when I started looking. Usually after a night has passed the webs are somewhat tattered but there were several fairly complete and attractive ones in the meadow. It would be hard to miss these on such a wet morning. Everything had dew drops whether small or large. Just watch out for the tricky ones.
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Not knowing this is a spider web, one might be inclined to see a rocket ready to escape a force field. You may smile at my wild imagination, Steve.
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Nope, I envy it, Peter. 🙂
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I’ve been keeping my eye out for argiope spiders, but I haven’t seen one yet. Excellent view of the web and spider.
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Thanks, Tom. I am fortunate to have a few species in the yard. Of course the common Garden Argiope but yesterday I also found one of these Bandeds with a nice cached red-legged grasshopper.
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I find it sobering to see that many webs. There are so many more spiders all around than I typically realize. This one’s a beauty.
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I can tell you that yes there are a lot of species. Today I found several different in the wood pile while doing my splitting. But just in general numbers there are many more than we realize until a nice dewy morning like this one.
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A Brilliant shot of natural beauty.
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Thanks, Michael. It takes a special naturalist to find spiders attractive. 🙂
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Welcome. I find all creatures special.
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Nice! Looking forward to seeing the foggy walnut grove. 🙂
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Thanks, Eliza. Unless I find some inspiration in them I am not likely to share any as they were not what I envisioned. But I can share this from the archives from the same location.
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