I don't know what to call them and the moment was fleeting. I went out to the garage this morning and scattered across the back yard, I saw what looked like tiny, insubstantial patches of fog, nestled in the grass. If I got too close to any one of them, it vanished.
From the back door, with the sun at my back, I could see many of them and I took a bearing on one of the thicker-looked. At medium distance, it appeared to fade away, and even looking start down on it, it was barely perceptible. Bending down, I finally saw it again at bifocal distance: the thinnest of spderwebs, woven of strands so fine they glimmered like elongated rainbows. There was no sign at all of the web-spinner, but if it is sized proportionately, the little spider would be about the size of a dust-mote.
What do they seine from the morning air, do you suppose?
Sounds like the wee spiders I see here in the grass, out behind the prairie, early in the AM.
ReplyDeleteI'd guess gnats. Anything much bigger would destroy the web. I see them here in TN also. Its almost like they make several like a trapper.
ReplyDeleteI imagine them as terribly industrious and optimistic little things, setting to work in the pre-dawn dark, hoping for a morning haul.
ReplyDeleteCould it have been their mode of transportation? Some spin webs and ride the air currents to strike out for new territory.
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"Song of the Sky" Guy Murchie
ReplyDeleteDo you allege plagarism, Ritchie?
ReplyDeleteDwarf Sheet web Spiders... weather has probably caused a population explosion...
ReplyDeleteDwarf sheetweb spiders (Erigonidai, or a similar latin bashing-together of letters
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