Tag Archives: spider
08.18.2021-2 Webnesday
Gary hasn’t posted in a while so I’ll pick it up with a spider for the day. Hope we hear from him soon as well. In the same meadow, MacLeod Field, where I found the Viceroy I also saw a … Continue reading
08.08.2021 Wild nature in the home
I am sure a couple of you might have run out of the room screaming if you found this on your bathroom vanity first thing in the morning. Obviously, I did run out of the room but to fetch my … Continue reading
09.12.2020-2 Spidurday
Well, Gary has his Webnsday and I won’t probably keep this going as faithfully as he has but I have become a bit more interested in Arachnids. Shamrock Orbweaver- Araneus trifolium. So this dreamboat decided to inhabit our bee balm, maybe to … Continue reading
08.30.2020-2 “Ooh somebody, ooh somebody. Can anybody find me somebody to hug?”
With apologies to Freddie. In between showers I found this lonely White-banded Crab Spider-Misumenoides formosipes longingly waiting for somebody, anybody to hug. Unfortunately for this fly, the spider wanted more than a hug. Lonely No longer lonely…or hungry Crab spiders … Continue reading
08.28.2020-2 Bedtime Spider
Bentley always goes out just before we go to bed. Tonight I noticed another web below where the Spotted Neoscona had been last week. This spider was much smaller and at first in the dark and with it being so … Continue reading
08.24.2020 Macro Monday-Spidah and Grasshoppah
The 180 came back last week and this weekend was my first time out with it. Saturday was a big disappointment. Pretty much every image was not very good as a result of everything coated with so much dew that … Continue reading
08.17.2020 Macrarachnido Monday
Arachnid was in the title so you were warned. 🙂 Friday evening at bedtime I took Bentley out into the backyard. I carry a 1400 lumen flashlight that lights up the whole yard and I noticed above one of the … Continue reading
06.20.2020 Creepy Saturday
Not everyone is creeped out by spiders, but I felt a warning was fair. 🙂 While looking for the orchids yesterday and before happening upon the damselfly, I noticed this Arabesque Orbweaver with its bagged lunch on a leaf. For … Continue reading
09.08.2019 Coincidental ties in to recent conversations
The last few days, Steve and I have remarked about a couple of things, hornet nests and leaf-roller spiders. As luck would have it, I had a chance yesterday to photograph both subjects here in the yard. The first we … Continue reading
