
Web Browser.

by Trudee Hunter
Title
Web Browser.
Artist
Trudee Hunter
Medium
Mixed Media - Photography
Description
Web Browser. I was intrigued to see how my original photo of a Golden Orb Weaver turned out after applying texturized digital effects to it and found the 3D effect very appealing.
Golden Orb Spiders. Australia’s Golden Orb Weavers are very large spiders. They weave metre-wide webs which are most effective for catching very large insects. The three different species belong to the genus Nephila and two very similar ones are N.plumipes and N.edulis. For identification purposes, the N.plumipes has a bright yellow sternum or chest area. The third species, known as Nephila pilipes is often called the Northern or Giant Golden Orb Weaver and is much easier to recognise. They have slimmer bodies than the other two with longer legs and they have a yellow sternum and knee joints.
The females are characterized by their grey-brown colour and wavy markings situated on the underside of their abdomens. Their webs resemble a messy string of debris.
Golden Orb Weavers are commonly found in the warmer regions of the world such as Africa, southern United States, South America and in the Asia-Pacific areas such as Australia. The females are much larger than the males and they use yellow silk in their conspicuous webs, choosing open spaces to suspend them.
Their webs are made in a classic wheel shape with threads resembling spokes which radiate out from the hub of the web. The stiff outer frame of the webs are connected to trees, wires or other supporting structures that can be spaced apart by many meters. Lying across these strong spokes are the finer, more elastic threads which circle around the hub in parallel rows.
These rows are have beads of glue-like substances which is used to catch flying insects. The strength and size of orb webs are recognised as remarkable feats of engineering within the animal kingdom. Once an insect becomes stuck in an orb web, the threads can stretch more than 2.7 times their original length whilst they absorb the energy of the insect.
The untidy clumps of material that the female forms as a vertical chain are silk wrapped dead insects. This is referred to as a food cache and saved when food becomes scarce.
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June 10th, 2019
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