Trampoline spiderweb in the Gabriola woods
Remember Gabriola’s strangest spiderweb? Maybe the spiders who created that have moved on to trampoline webs, like this one.
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Now this is just a little alarming
The leaf, it is not so small. The spider… hey! I thought we weren’t supposed to have bugs this big on Gabriola?
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Gabriola’s strangest spiderweb?
In one particular part of the Gabriola woods, I find spiderwebs like this dome-shaped one. What kind of spiders make webs like this, and what are they smoking? Update: more webs like this have appeared, and I got to see what the spiders who make these webs look like, too:
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Gabriola’s strangest web
I often find puzzling things in the Gabriola woods, but this tops all recent discoveries. You know those spiderwebs that look like they’re made of fine silk? Right. So this is one like that, but parts of the web are made of of slime instead of web. The shiny bits look like they’ve come out [...]
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Spiderweb on a foggy day
The Gabriola forest was magical this morning.
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Gabriola’s autumn spider
These spiders are all over the Gabriola woods right now, building gorgeous webs. The other day I watched as this spider captured a victim, and seemed to wrap that victim in spider-silk. Is that what they do? I know so little about spiders. I’m quite taken with this photo, because it seems to show the [...]
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A Gabriola spiderweb
This morning I was in the woods near Whalebone Beach, and the whole forest was a sparkling miracle of spiderwebs. This web looks like a hammock for a small forest creature.
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The best thing about rainy days
I finally figured out how to get my camera to focus on spider webs, which pleases me quite a bit. The Gabriola woods are full of sparkling spiderwebs these days!
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