Tuesday March 31st, 2009. Posted by Alex:
It’s the late summer and the successful female orb-spinners have grown fat. The strings of discarded prey advertise their success and demonstrate the majestic scale of their palaces. So when you walk down the path between the bushes, those who don’t like spiders should not look up.
Like most pictures on this blog, you can click for a closer view, but again those who do not like spiders should not enlarge the picture below – the detailed view has more resolution than I usually use. The bodies of the big ones can easily be bigger than my thumbnail!
