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Web Weaving

Best watched with the HD setting on YouTube. This must happen thousands of times every day around the garden and fields: a common, female European Garden Spider Garden/Cross Orb weaver spider, Araneus diadematus, repairing its web early in the morning. But the fact that it was at eye level on the bank behind the house made my eye notice it, and I decided to film it. Being in mid-August also meant that it had grown to a fair size. As always, when slowed down a bit in some sections, and zooming in on what it was doing with manipulating the silk thread with its feet, it's incredibly complicated, (it makes playing the piano quite simple by comparison) and almost entrancing - so long as you're not destined to be her next meal. My next post will include some footage of just how lethal a predator of insects, including many of our foraging honey bees, it can be. Plus I'll include some footage of a (much smaller) male of the species, who has constructed his own web just 70cm from this female. At this time of the year, it's unlikely they will have mated yet - that usually happens a bit later, when the male has to pick his moment to approach the female when she becomes fertile and emits the appropriate enticing pheromone. Sadly, this is one of the rare animals which indulge in sexual cannibalism, so if the male gets his timing wrong. Or maybe, just anyway, he'll end up being caught, trussed up in her silk and eaten by the female, just like any other prey. A much tougher life than being a male honey bee, frankly. I hope you enjoy watching it as much as we both did. For more information about our garden plantings, wildflower meadows, insect-friendly flowers, and low-intervention honey bees, see our website: https://thegardenimpressionists.com/