P365, Day 64 - What A Tangled Web

[grundyscribbling]

We have a spider who's been doing a pretty spectacular web in the back porch doorway every night for several weeks. Every night it starts out perfect and pristine, then rapidly degenerates as moths and other bugs get caught.

Also, admission: this one is cropped, because you could see part of a car on the left side of the photo. (I have no other sharable photos today, alas.)

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Comments

[heartofoshun]

Terrific!

[grundyscribbling]

Thank you!

[keiliss]

I love this. That necessary crop really worked for it.

[grundyscribbling]

Thanks!
(Yes, the car definitely didn't improve the picture!)

[ysilme]

Awesome shot! I'm all for the crop on this one.
Is she starting from scratch every night to make a pristine new web, can you tell? I just realise that I have no idea about this part of the life of spiders.

[grundyscribbling]

Thank you!
She is indeed starting from scratch every night - she builds a lovely new web, by the end of the night it's a wreck from her catch, and presumably she retreats with her food to a hideaway for the day before doing it all again. (Though she may be gone - last night all we saw was the beginnings of the upper frame. She may have been a victim of her own success, as she'd gotten so large she was probably easy for predators to spot!)