Just wanted to share-cool pics of spider webs

Cool, but ICK!

I agree with gar

They are quite good engineers, aren't they? I mean, for bugs I don't really like...

Nice pictures!

Very cool, until I walk through one of them

very cool!!

I hate spiders in general-- but garden orb spiders are pretty darn nifty! (as long as they're nowhere near me... lol)  And the fact that you have them means your garden is a healthy ecosystem. (I think, anyway.)


ETA:  hopefully you can check them out early in the morning when there's dew on them-- it will look like diamonds!

Like many things in nature, those are beautiful webs. But......I would have been mean and washed those away with a hose a long time ago. No spiders where my doggies, play!

They really are beautiful. Especially in a photo as opposed to stretched across my walkway.

Years ago, I had just purchased a new video camera. A girlfriend was spending the weekend with me and we went looking for things to video in my backyard. I wanted to try the macro settings. We found a big beautiful spiderweb and the spider was in the process of making some repairs to it. The spider was probably about an inch and a half across when you included her legs. The main body was quite big too. I have no idea what type of spider it was. The only spider I can identify is a black widow. We get plenty of those around here, but this was not a black widow.

She had caught something and rolled it up in a bit of web and carried it to the center of the web to eat later. She was making repairs to the web when we found her. My girlfriend caught a moth and tossed it into the web. I took close up video of the spider racing to the spot where the moth hit and it just took mere seconds for her to roll the moth into like a moth burrito. She then cut it out of the web and brings it to the center where she had the other insect. Dinner for later, I guess. She went back to the broken section of web and repaired it to where you would not have known it was broken moments before. It was amazing. Well, up until a breeze came through the yard. I was taking super macro close shots of this spider and when the breeze hit, I was still looking at the spider through the lens and it looked like the spider was coming right at me and going to hit me in the face. I screamed and ran. I really have a big fear of spiders. I can appreciate their beauty, but I am really creeped out by them and the thought of that web sticking to my head with that huge spider still on it freaked me out.

Fortunately, this was well before the internet, or my girlfriend would have surely posted it to YouTube to make fun of my screaming. On the video, once that breeze hit, all you could see was my feet and the ground as I ran for the house screaming. Thank goodness I didn't drop the video camera!

Nice photos!