Dec 032014
For the past few days, every time I have walked down Piney Woods Church Road, I have encountered orb spiders dutifully tending their webs. I never see the same web or spider twice — each time, I discover a different one somewhere along the roadside. All of them, though, are clearly the same spider species: Larinia directa. Today, for the first time, I was able to photograph a spider in her web from both sides, top and bottom. It is an accomplishment about which I am quite proud, though mostly it was the luck of finding a spider whose web allowed fairly easy approach from both directions — from the roadside and from the roadside slope, looking back toward the road bed.
