From A Fly’s Perspective

From a fly’s perspective caught in a spider web. How do you get out of that? Erm, you don’t.

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Sheet Web, rear garden, Staffordshire, England. July 2017.

Spinning Autumn

Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus) female, September 2017, rear garden, Staffordshire, England.

Catching The Fall

Photograph taken October 2016, front garden, Staffordshire. © Pete Hillman 2016. Camera used Nikon D7200, with Sigma 105mm macro lens.

Spinning Around

I came across this Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus) busy spinning a new web in my garden.

Photograph of Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus), taken August 2016, rear garden , Staffordshire. © Pete Hillman 2016. Camera used Nikon D7200, with Sigma 105mm macro lens.

A Deady Game of Survival

I guess the fight for survival could have gone either way in the above image. I came across this Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus) in its orb web with a nicely wrapped up food parcel. This food parcel was a social wasp, most likely the Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris), and if it had got a sting in it could have been over for the spider. I suppose it all depends on how wrapped up the wasp had become in the web, and how weak it was. Either way, the spider got its lunch.

Photograph of Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus) with the Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris), taken August 2016, rear garden , Staffordshire. © Pete Hillman 2016. Camera used Nikon D3200, with Sigma 105mm macro lens with softbox flash diffuser.

Suspended

Photograph of Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus), taken August 2016, rear garden , Staffordshire. © Pete Hillman 2016. Camera used Nikon D3200, with Sigma 105mm macro lens with softbox flash diffuser.

July Rain #2

A spider’s world view after the rain.

Beauty Caught In a Trap

Mother of Pearl (Pleuroptya ruralis) – I came across this moth apparently caught in a spider’s web on one of my walks.

Local field margin, July 2015. Nikon D3200 © Peter Hillman.