Tuesday, March 31, 2009

NZ spider webs

For months I've been trying to get a good photograph of a spider web, and I finally got an adequate photo. We have been so amazed at the difference in the design of spider webs here. Instead of being vaguely circular like they are in the US, here they seem to be a random collection of cells, each one of which is some sort of polygon. In the photo, the thing that looks like it might be the center of the web is a ball of fluff from some kind of plant. If you double click on the photo, you'll get a closer view which shows the odd cell shapes better.

1 comment:

Buffy said...

This web sort of reminds me of photos I've seen of webs spun by spiders after they were given LSD!