I marveled at this web I saw on my property in Virginia a few summers ago…
What industry, and beauty…
It was a little hard to see - stepping back I took a picture of the place the spider chose to set up shop.
On that same walk, I saw a pretty scary spider. Being a person who's spent most of her adult life living in cities, I usually just see - at best - the basic little old spider. This one is serious.
And I had the luck to catch her when she was carrying her precious eggs spun into the protective, waterproof, tight little ball that had to keep them as they grow and mature until they are born. This is the purpose of her life. To reproduce, and do all she can to secure that her species goes on… before she herself then dies.
Makes you want to go back and reread Charlottes Web.
That same trip I went to visit the UVA Campus and at the front steps I saw this phenomenon….
Come October when you drag out the Halloween stuff to decorate, take these as your inspiration. It really does happen in Nature. I have never seen anything like this. Nature continues to awe and inspire.
I really have no idea what kind of insect has the ability or the need to create something like this. Is it cocooning gone wild? No spider would do this right? If it were a group of insects, like bees in a hive, I would understand the profound coverage of the webbing, but to my knowledge, I don't know any insect that can produce this to live in clusters or groups.
Anyone out there have a clue?
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