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Web of Golden Silk Spider - Trichonephila clavipes

Web of Golden Silk Spider - Trichonephila clavipes
Baton Rouge - BREC Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
August 7, 2006
Took a picture last summer of a backlit golden silk spider. Today I was working it into a slide show presentation. I peeked at the actual pixels. I was surprised to see that the web seems to be made of disks or spirals. Or is the lighting playing tricks on me? Anyone seen very close-ups of spider webs that knows if this is how they usually look? Do they really come out as spirals?

They sure are pretty.
Looks like strings of genes.
Can't wait until summer to try more pictures with my macro lens this time.

I will attach another picture that is not zoomed so close to give perspective.

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Web of Golden Silk Spider - Trichonephila clavipes Web of Golden Silk Spider - Trichonephila clavipes

Quite interesting
I'd think a spider web would be "manufactured" as an extrusion. A machine-made extrusion would have lines along its length. The different colors and variable spacing here are really intriguing.

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