Foggy Morning

I went to the barn this morning planning to move the fence and open up the next paddock. It seemed a dramatic scene.

Green pasture in the fog. Electric fence draped with spider webs covered with dew.

It was foggy, but was most obvious was the dew on the spiderwebs.

Green pasture seen through electric net fence covered with spider webs.

The spiderwebs seemed to be everywhere, especially obvious on the net fence.

Net fence covered with dewy spiderwebs at sunrise.

The dew makes the webs much ore obvious.

Seed head of grass coated with dew.

This is only dew, no webs.

Sunrise with few of spiderwebs on fence covered with dew.

Later in the day the fog burned off and the dew was gone.

Close up of chicory leaf with 10 spiders on it.

Here are the spiders that are responsible for what looks like webs. However they are not the typical web.

Top of wooden post with a dozen spiders

If you look up “spiders ballooning” you’ll find out that baby spiders will produce a strand or two of silk and be carried away by the wind. The net fence and the pasture plants easily catch those silk strands. So I don’t know how far those spiders have dispersed. Didi they start out here or elsewhere?

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