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Posted by Paul-the-other on 11:40:12 09/12/10
Early morning walks through Hoechoka Hammock are a small pleasure for me especially when the migration is beginming. This day it was not the birds that caught my attention but a crab spider busy spinning a web. Becuase it was a slow morning for birds I allowed myself to be drawn into the activity of this busy spider. Besides the plain marvel of how they go around and around and around in construction circles I learned it takes about 50 seconds to do the circumference and then things speed up as the circle becomes smaller. By the time it reached the center it was spinning out the inner circles in 20 seconds. Then it went back to do some repairs (see the re-rigging in the upper right corner?).
So now, for all you spider lovers, grown weary of Cuban Peewees,; why does the spider construct an "accent" piece on the support lines? They look very much like white center lines on a highway. Is this an action with a purpose say maybe to count how long the support line is? Each of the support lines had them and they all seemed to be evenly spaced.
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