Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Some Spiders, Etc.

Bowl-and-doily Weaver. She weaves a bowl-like web above a sheet web (the doily) and hangs upside down from the bowl. Rather distinctive.
But so is this one, and I have no idea what type of spider it is.
A Fragile Forktail stuck in spider silk. The damselfly escaped.
A wolf spider, Tigrosa something. This is a big spider for around here. I will get further into the story in an upcoming post, but let me start by saying that this is a new species for me, and I saw two of them within 15 minutes of each other. But then, I wasn’t doing the searching…


mthew

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