Trees, shrubs, flowers, herbs: they were all draped in feathery festoons of spider-web, glistening with dew.
Some of the plants were so thickly covered that you could hardly see them.
Here's one of the perpetrators - a Garden spider - one of many such individuals in the garden right now.
You have to admire their industriousness! Break one of their webs and they'll rebuild it by next morning.
I think I would be very scared if I were a flying insect...
This may look like an enticing hammock, but it's a deadly trap for the unwary fly.
For me this is the epitome of Autumn: fallen leaves and cobwebs.
And fungi...
so many spiders over the past few months and they're getting bigger and bigger... love your pictures, so beautiful x
ReplyDeleteI don't mind seeing spiders in the garden, but I definitely don't like them in the house. We've had loads over the last few weeks and they're huge. Apparently, it's spider mating season and they're on the hunt for a mate. Well, I wish they'd look somewhere else. Lovely photos, you've captured those intricate webs so well.
ReplyDeleteLots of cobwebs here too, in the garden though I add. Lovely shots of them Mark.
ReplyDeleteI have this thing about spiders - love their usefulness but they are one of the few things that creep me out. I'm trying to get over it though. I touched a tiny one the other day - with a gloved finger - and that in itself is something I would never have been able to do even a year ago. Baby steps.
ReplyDeleteLovely cobwebs. I admire them in the garden. I'm not a fan of the spiders though as they freak me out. I do like that they eat things in the garden though.
ReplyDeleteI usually see a few webs here and there but nothing like in your pictures. These are absolutely beautiful particularly the second, third and fourth pictures. Like paintings. I'm sure you must have spent a longer time in the garden taking tons of photos.:)
ReplyDeleteWe had a garden spider spin a web between two wheelie bois and felt guilty when we had to wheel one away
ReplyDeleteI always feel guilty at destroying a wen when they have gone to so much trouble - the thing is they do 't always make them in convenient places.
ReplyDeleteDidn't realize you had them, too! I was thinking tropical Florida must be the buggiest place in the world! Not only spiders, but lately tons of frogs and lizards.
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