Web of Jewels

by Heidi Fickinger

Title

Web of Jewels

Artist

Heidi Fickinger

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Photograph - Photographic Print

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Just before sunrise a drenching rain came down coating this spider web in jewels of drops. The web hung like a gorgeous necklace of sparkling light. As I watched, the spider, a crab spider that continued to spin silken row after row in the interior of its web. The circumference of this web was over 2 feet. This time of year in Hawai'i the crab spiders (an introduced spider) build new webs every morning - sometimes the silken strands that anchor the web can span 10 feet or more from a tree branch, trunk or roofline. I have always wanted to see how the these spiders create these anchors - do they launch themselves into the air at an anchor target? This feat must occur in the darkness, as the anchors and beginnings of the web are already in place when the first light begins to break. During the web-spinning season you must watch where you walk in yards and in the wild as web after web can hang over pathways. After several months, these spiders disappear and will not reappear until the following spring.

Featured in the following FAA groups:
* Seen But Not Noticed
* Water Forms
* Weird Natural Oddities

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March 13th, 2022

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