Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Duskyblue Groundstreak in the grip of a spider, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Here's a photo of a Banded Argiope. This little darlin' was the size of my pinky nail when I first noticed it. There is a huge patch of waltheria indica growing in a corner back at the ranch. I was photographing Mallow Scrub Hairstreaks and my sister-in-law was sitting in the truck scanning the area with the binoculars. She screams because in the binoculars it looks huge :o)

We've gone back to the ranch for the past three weekends and it has sure grown!!! Considering there were hundreds and hundreds of Mallow Scrub Hairstreaks, Snouts, Emperors and other butterflies frequenting the waltheria indica...it selected a superb dining location to spin it's web.

This is a photo from last weekend...you can see how big it's gotten...and when my S-I-L saw it this time in the binoculars she really freaked out!!! She wouldn't get off the truck and kept screaming for me to get back in before it bit me :o) Heh! Heh!

It's about 1.25" in body length now...the legs make it seem at least four inches in length :o) EEEEEEEEEKKK!!!

~ Cat

This message was edited Dec 2, 2006 8:21 PM