dew on web

nytecam · #1 (**permalink**) 22-09-2009, 08:28 AM

spiders web covered in dew this morning - droplets image the scene beyond but inverted - taken with supplementary lens handheld over camera lens

I assume the even spacing of the tiniest droplets highlights a slight change of thread structure from the spinnerettes?

acherontia · #2 (**permalink**) 22-09-2009, 06:31 PM

That's a really interesting web - not your usual run of the mill shape and I like the colours in the background too!
Thanks for the comment on my spider.
I'll tell you what - I'll comment on yours if you comment on mine and that way we won't feel ignored....LOL

or at least I won't

Acher

PS - you can spray them with water to get that effect

pammosley · #3 (**permalink**) 22-09-2009, 07:50 PM

Lovely photos nytecam. It`s quite hard to capture this

Meta menardi · #4 (**permalink**) 22-09-2009, 10:56 PM

When sticky silk is spun, it is evenly covered with ...sticky, but this separates into globules, and I think these are the basis for your dew drops.

A very speculative punt, but lozenge shaped cells in the web are sometimes found in Nuctenea umbratica webs, that is usually a large robust web. Tetragnatha webs are usually almost horizontal, very fine and have an open centre and less regular rhomboid shaped cells, so you pays your money and yer takes yer choice. As I say, very speculative.

nytecam · #5 (**permalink**) 23-09-2009, 09:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Meta menardi

A very speculative punt, but lozenge shaped cells in the web are sometimes found in Nuctenea umbratica webs, that is usually a large robust web. Tetragnatha webs are usually almost horizontal, very fine and have an open centre and less regular rhomboid shaped cells, so you pays your money and yer takes yer choice. As I say, very speculative.

Many thanks for your expertise on the web forms - most interesting

The garden has literally 100s of webs currently