The big scary spider (Neoscona crucifera) seen earlier in this previous post is today hunkered in the sparse protection of a dried up Cestrum newellii stem. Because it's raining and there's no point in building the web, no warm sunshine to bask in while waiting for a passing bee, no bees (or flies for that matter) out anyway in the more or less continuous drip of the day.
I like the rain but I have a roof that only has one teensy leak; I also have a big pile of firewood, a gas heater, lots of blankets and warm soup to sip.
Meanwhile an old lawn mower collects drips
and an old wind chime catches a sunbeam during a break in the rain. How does the spider's exoskeleton measure up to the iron indifference of these objects to the cold and wet?
3 comments:
I love these pictures. Poor, shivering Neoscona!
That's the sad thing about this weather. It's refilling Talbert Lake, but it's going to freeze the spiders :(
great shots!! poor spider...just trying to make it through another day...
Well the sun came back out and the spider is back in her web . . . the winter's cold will eventually catch up with her but for now she's hangin' in there.
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