"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."-Pablo Picasso
It weaves its web in places where there is less human foot fall, preferably a foot or more above the ground so that it is not damaged by a passing animal.
It is the Picasso amongst spiders and after it has built its web it signs its work of art with a zig zag silk structure in a design resembling the 4 arms of the alphabet X making sure to leave an open space at the intersection. Here it will rest itself head downwards aligning its legs along its X sign waiting for the unsuspecting insect that mistakes it to be a flower only to be caught in its web!
Being a male in the spider world is not easy! The female of the species is considerably larger than the male who builds a companion web besides the female's web. After mating the female will kill the male and then lay her eggs onto the companion web and wrap them up into a sac. Spiderlings eat each other in the sac until the strongest spiderlings break the sac wall.
Signature Spider
(Argiope anasuja)
Sony A77ii
Tamron 90f2.8 DI 1.1 Macro,
f/5.6, 1/60s, ISO250
Home, Kahun Road, Pune(India)
July 2020