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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts."
-- Mark Twain
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"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey." -- Fitzhugh Mullan

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving." -- Lao Tzu

Spider Activity Heralds “Fair Weather”

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Spider activity in pine needles

©Bert Gildart: Many years ago I wrote a fishing story for Field & Stream  about Glacier National Park and included in it a natural history observation that I don’t see all that frequently. This morning, however, I saw the phenomena down here in Georgia at  Crooked River State Park.

I knew about the phenomena from something I’ve done all my life and that is: reading materials about natural history.

Every now and then when you step outside, particularly into relatively undisturbed area you see the handiwork of spiders, and that’s what I saw this morning.

Covering the base of palmettos, the pine needles, the grass… were hundreds of spider webs. Following weather changes, particularly when a high pressure system moves in, spiders are particularly active.

For the fisherman, that translates into fair weather. I’m a fisherman, but right now fishing is not my objective rather fair weather for an upcoming kayak trip – and of course, photographic opportunities.

That’s what the foggy morning seemed to provide, and to capture the handiwork of the arachnids, I mounted my camera equipped with macro lens and what you see here are the results.


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Spider activity in palmettos and other plants on forest floor

We hope the weather holds for our planned Friday camping trip to Cumberland Island. If so, we may be seeing lots more spider webs.


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THIS TIME TWO YEARS AGO:

*Natchez Trace

 

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