Spider alert!

Denzil, in this week’s Nature Photo Challenge, asks us to hunt for spiders and their webs – something that it’s easy to do at this time of year in Britain. Only yesterday, a huge specimen was standing guard over the shoe-rack. But by the time I’d got my camera, he’d vanished. These then, are all archive photos, and unidentified. Helpful suggestions welcomed.

The first one is from India. Perhaps I J Khanewala can help? And the second is also not from England, but from La Rioja in Spain.

The third is from Masham Parish Church, and it’s dead. Is it even a spider?

For the rest, I offer a gallery of webs, mainly taken on misty moisty mornings, or in fog, lending them a mysterious and often ethereal quality.

These were taken in Dumfries and Galloway, in Cairnsmore of Fleet National Nature Reserve. As is the header photo.

The next group come from just down the road, near Sleningford Hall.

And lastly, we return to India, where a tunnel spider has made his complex lure.

Tunnel spider’s nest
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I'm retired and live in North Yorkshire, where I walk , write, volunteer and travel as often as I can.

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  4. Well done spider phobe. I like the web that looks like a macrame web 🙂 As for what one is what. Orb Weaver, Daddy Long Legs, night spider? but I really have no idea 😂

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  8. A great selection and love the web photos, so intricate. You’ve spent time in India? Have I missed that? When and where? I spent the 70 s and 80 s back and forth with studies etc. Have not been back but worked closely with the Sikh community in West London.

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    1. I went in 2007, when I retired, largely by myself. It was partly funded by some of my family as a 60th birthday present. Fabulous experience, and when I began blogging (but not with WP), Largely the south – Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

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      2. It was. And how wonderful to live there for a while. I couch surfed with a wonderful young American academic in Thanjavur, who was very integrated, speaking the local language and so on, who gave me a much richer picture of life than I’d been able to get as a mere tourist.

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  11. I couldn’t describe myself as a spider sympathiser. Their webs are often in places I don’t want them to be and I have to move them on. Tssk! You shouldn’t even own up to knowing me.

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