WrappedUp

Good One!

If it's a bad spider it's double jeopardy with the rusty barb get a tetanus shot if it's a good spidey laud the morning dew and praise it's handiwork somehow it reminds me of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Very nice im love it

Excellent composition, it made my desktop picture of the day.

Very beautiful!
Andrea

• ABOUT THOSE MYSTERIOUSLY MISSING SPIDERS YOU LAMENT!

DEAR DEBRA:

There are several possibilities that spring immediately to mind:

(1.) The SPIDERS in all these webs you examined MAY HAVE FLED their webs BECAUSE OF the effects of the excessive (virtually UBIQUITOUS) DEW DROPS.

(2.) The SPIDERS may STILL be IN the WEBS BUT be INVISIBLE TO the EYE itself, OR EVEN to YOUR sharp, and HIGH spatial RESOLUTION (10x), CAMERA photo. Just how ultra-tiny the spiders might or could be I do not know. Though the question is an absolutely fascinating one! (How tiny are spiders' kids at inception? Say in the case of Earth's single tiniest spider species?)

(3.) Perhaps most importantly of all, just as a normal big spider web has just 1 spider in it, these itsy-bitsy webs presumably have just 1 as well. But obviously "trigirl" will ONLY have PEEKED — given the extremely hard work it would be — AT an ABSOLUTELY INSIGNIFICANT LENGTH OF these WEBS. Which have roughly as much strand LENGTH in ratio to strand THICKNESS, and topologically as much strand or web intricacy, as the large (normal) webs that you and are SOLELY used to.

(4.) The SPIDERS may be HIDDEN INSIDE the TEENY DEWDROPS on the tiny threads of the tiny webs. Which could be for several reasons, alone or in combination. For example, light or imagery could be reflected or refracted in strange ways at such scales, near the wavelength of visible light, at a fraction of a micron. (This does not foreclose greatly reduced breathing or metabolism, or semi-hibernation.)

(5.) The SPIDERS may be TRANSPARENT to the human, or to the sophisticated camera's, eye.

(6.) The SPIDERS may be SO EXTREMELY TINY that their BODIES, AND bodies' PARTS, may be CLOSE TO the SUBMICRON WAVELENGTHS OF visible LIGHT. HENCE ONLY a SMALL FRACTION OF the spiders' BODY STRUCTURE may be PERCEPTIBLE TO the HUMAN EYE — OR EVEN your super-sophisticated electronic CAMERA'S 'eye' — ONLY very CRUDELY or SPARSELY or UNRECOGNIZABLY. (In which case they would be too simple to see, or to recognize for what they are!)

(7.) The MICRO-SPIDERS may be HIDDEN UPON the CORRUGATED STRANDS (or their indentations or mountainy textures) — OR INSIDE the TWISTED KNOTS — OF the BARBWIRE. (Possibly because the wire is so dark.)

I will send you my BILL for this pile of competing spur-of-the-moment conjectures, of. . .

— Vintage Gunkel!

How to make something unsightly seem lovely? Get a creepy-crawly spider to do its magic just before a low dewpoint! Nice capture!