Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Continuing the spider kick I’ve been on lately.
Found a pair of these orchard orbweavers (leucauge venusta) near the door of the back porch.
A few hornets were building a nest up in the corner by the front door. I managed to snag one of them before shooing them away and dropped it onto Shelob’s web.
I was quite impressed with how fast she ran down to the trapped hornet and wrapped it up in a cocoon of silk. Even more surprising is that she actually wraps it up with a sheet of silk, not just individual strands.
She put on a pretty impressive show. I’ll have to catch more bugs and try to get a movie of the action.
Another spider that seems to be fairly common around here. They spin some pretty large and spectacular looking webs. Also called banana spiders (nephila clavipes). The photo is a little bit on the blurry side because she was kind of high up and a breeze kept blowing her around a little bit.
