I couldn't resist shooting some evening photos of this jumping spider. I found her on a lawn chair in the back yard. She's a beautiful lady but was very sluggish. She didn't act interested when I swayed a finger at her and barely moved when I tried to pick her up. But she'll be immortalized now within the pixels of these digital images.....
It's mid October, and the Gulf fritillary mamas are still visiting our passionflower vines and depositing eggs! I happened to notice that one laid an egg on the chain-link fence! (The photo above's not great but at least you get the picture.) She needs to get her eyes checked! Maybe she's the same one who chose the chewed up branch below for another egg drop. Oh, well, it's cool that we still have caterpillars, hanging out in our Wildscape, especially this late in the season.
Typically, funnel weavers construct their webs on the ground in grassy areas. They get their name from the funnel-shaped webs they construct. They lurk in the funnel opening and wait for an insect to bumble onto the sheet-like webbing, then they rush out and grab it.
