October 16, 2006: Heavy dew on spiderweb
 

http://cellar.org/2006/heavydew.jpg

"Damn, I love these pictures," says xoxoxoBruce sending along these from Weather Underground. "Me too," is all I can say in return.

http://cellar.org/2006/heavydew2.jpg

The spiders I know weave new webs daily; they're remarkably hard workers, and so there's probably not much lost by this guy as he's not going to catch much at this point.

http://cellar.org/2006/heavydew3.jpg

And I think I've heard they eat the old webs in some cases. This guy may not be able to do that. Or maybe he's so small he can wipe down a bit of dew.

Spider chandeliers.

Beautiful.

Stunning.

Another fine IOTD!

Just think what one of these suckers could do!

That reminds me, I've got to get those Christmas lights up before it gets too cold out.

Eight leg bling.

Wow. Nice.

Do the Dew

Stunning.

I am trying to get over my phobia of spiders as they are very helpful creatures to have around and they cannot help it if they were born with, like, what?-20 eyes?

Eight eyes is most common, but there is some variation.

How spiders see the world

Thanks for the link, Tanalia. Very interesting...but, still, creeps me out, all those eyes.

Thats really pretty for something so ugly. I hate spiders. :eek:

dude

Umm. It's no guy. You mean she.
:3_eyes:
Agreed that these webs are magnificent.

How d'ya tell the difference, aj?

*&^$#$#(($$##W(@ Dew!!! I'm hungry!! http://i11.tinypic.com/48e1sia.gif

It probably evaporates rapidly dew to very large surface areas on small drops, the moment the dew point rises. Be interesting to see.