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Images => Nature, Flora, Fauna & Landscapes => Topic started by: David Paterson on October 01, 2015, 11:41:44
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Just a few of the tens of thousands - perhaps millions - of spiders' webs that have suddenly appeared all over the landscape here, and made more visible by the morning mist, which condenses on the webs as droplets.
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nicely captured!
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Very impressive !
Huge competition, here ! :)
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Thanks, Elsa and Francis.
I'm posting another image - a 100% crop from a detailed image of a large web covered in droplets.
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That bush/tree is insect free :)
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That bush/tree is insect free :)
poor spiders must die now. Nothing to eat.
Is there some ecological imbalance causing the massive appearence?
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Interesting David.
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The droplets covered web is beautiful.
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Thanks, everyone, for your comments.
Seen close-up, the droplet-covered webs are extremely beautiful but also extremely fragile. All those drops of water load the structure to its limits, so that the least movement of air can tear it. They appear suddenly, overnight, and disappear just as suddenly. My guess is that it is temperature-related so the first few nights when we are down near zero, the spiders get to work. Two nights ago it was cold but not freezing, and a lot of webs appeared. Last night it froze and this morning there were uncountable webs - on bushes which had had 50, now there were more like 500. It does happen most years, but this year it's kinda special.
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They appear suddenly, overnight, and disappear just as suddenly. My guess is that it is temperature-related so the first few nights when we are down near zero, the spiders get to work. Two nights ago it was cold but not freezing, and a lot of webs appeared. Last night it froze and this morning there were uncountable webs - on bushes which had had 50, now there were more like 500. It does happen most years, but this year it's kinda special.
Interesting pics and story - insects don't stand a chance here. I like #2.
Could be worse for insects, though. Here is a recent scene from rural NSW, with the story on http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/raining-spiders-in-goulburn-entirely-possible-scientist-says-20150514-gh1guf.html (http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/raining-spiders-in-goulburn-entirely-possible-scientist-says-20150514-gh1guf.html)