By Peter Hillman
From a fly’s perspective caught in a spider web. How do you get out of that? Erm, you don’t. Double click on images to enlarge. Sheet Web, rear garden, Staffordshire, England. July 2017.
Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus) female, September 2017, rear garden, Staffordshire, England.
Photograph taken October 2016, front garden, Staffordshire. © Pete Hillman 2016. Camera used Nikon D7200, with Sigma 105mm macro lens.
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.
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... Continue Reading →
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.
A spider's world view after the rain.
I came across this moth apparently caught in a spider's web on one of my walks. It is called Mother of Pearl (Pleuroptya ruralis), from the Crambidae family of moths. Photograph taken July 2015, local field margin, Staffordshire.
