#Arachtober 29: didn't have time for a proper spider outing, so hopped over the garden wall to see what I could find in the yard—and almost walked right through this cross orbweaver's web strung between the dead coneflowers and columbines! As you can hopefully see in the close-up, her jaws are full of a big lump of mushed-up bugs.
A closer crop of the same photo. You can hopefully better see the spider's fangs (opening sideways like scissors) in a shiny, lumpy black bolus; and its eyes, a classic orbweaver : :: : arrangement.
A dead coneflower seen from slightly below. Under the brown, withered petals shelters a brown spider with spiky, banded legs, looking at the camera with beady little eyes. Thin lines of silk, anchor lines for a web, stretch out of frame. The background is blurry but suggests a blue sky and trees.
