Another visit to the garden centre. I spend much of it looking up most, in search for the Garden Centre Spider,
Uloborus plumipes. I must have been a funny sight. My efforts are rewarded quickly. First, and most obvious I spot the webs, stretched across the plumbing by the glasshouse roof. They are laid almost horizontally and is an orb web. This one had a stabilimentum, a decoration in the centre of the web, in this case a linear one.
The spiders were a bit harder to find. After a while I saw some piece of debris hanging from some web, see the spot in the middle of the photo?
Zooming in, it revealed itself a a superbly camouflaged spider. It is hard to think it is a spider from a distance. Once I had spotted one, more followed, and I counted five in a relatively small area.
The nicer thing, though, was to find its spiky egg sac too.
Sorry for the poor photo quality, but the spiders were 3 m above me and the light already fading.
2 comments:
I went to a garden centre recently but totally forgot to look for these spiders. My mind was on Runner bean 'Hestia' and orchid compost! Must remember next time..
Maria
Thank you for your comment leafenounterwp. LOL, I also had a few things to get, although totally forgot the cat food! Good luck next time
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