Spider and stabilimentum
Saturday, 31 July 2010
F spotted this garden spider (Argiope aurantia), which I understand is garden-variety sized, and nowhere near as large as they can get, inbound from his walk the other day.
Thanks!
I, of course, did the kind of point-and-shoot photography where you can’t really tell what you have framed or focused on because the camera is nowhere near your eye.
I did get a couple of decent shots, but I thought this one might be a better reminder of the follies of photography (I like the ring of that…). Especially of spiders.
The zigzag feature of the web: a stabilimentum. Some species make them in spirals, so this is a simple straight-forward type….