After being inspired by photos of the beautiful spider webs with the morning dew, I've been hoping to come across one myself. I have to give the hubby credit again because when we got home early this evening, he mentioned that the sun was shining on a web being created between the roof of our porch and the railing on our deck by a very busy spider. This was right at eye level! So I waited until he finished and the sun set and got my night photo for today. I played around with various edits, but accenting the web lost the color on the spider. Feel free to tell me what you might have done differently. Thanks to everyone for the comments and favs on my cactus photo from yesterday!
We first noticed the beginnings of this at 6:45 and at 8:45 he was waiting for "company". I read that the average orb-weaver spider takes 30 to 60 minutes to completely spin its web. There was no sign of it the next morning.
http://www.spiders.us/faq/how-long-does-it-take-a-spider-to-build-a-web/
"Surprisingly, it does not take that long for a spider to create a web. Most spiders do their web-building at night, too, so you don’t often see one in the act of construction. Because wind, large insects, brooms, and other forces and objects destroy webs regularly, spiders rebuild their snares almost nightly. They will eat the old web, almost literally recycling the silk."
@anazad511 Thanks so much!! I was doing the happy dance while watching him anticipating the finished web. So fascinating to watch how quickly it took shape.
Wooo, great close up and capture! So much detail, the web and spider look quite spooky and beautiful against that black. Definitely one for viewing large. Fav.
September 17th, 2013
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