Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Cellar spider and wings.

 And back at home, waiting for it to stop raining again. Here, a patient cellar spider hangs upside-down day after day, rarely moving.

Pholcus phalangioides

I never see her catch anything, nor is there anything hanging in her web. I wondered whether she is finding anything to eat; I don't see any critters flying around. I searched on the floor beneath her web. And there it was; long dead, dried out, but still identifiable; a tiny, 5 mm long crane fly. With beautiful wings.

Abdomen and wings. The rest had crumbled to dust.

The crane fly's abdomen was almost the same size as the spider's. She's well fed.

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De vuelta en casa. Todo tranquilo. Una araña de patas largas, muy paciente, espera dia tras dia en su telaraña, colgada patas arriba. Nunca la veo moverse; no aparecen restos de su presa en la telaraña. ¿Será que no come? Busqué en el piso debajo de la telaraña, y junto a la pared la encontré; una mosca grulla, o típula, muy chica. Con unas alas bellas.

Fotos: la araña, Pholcus phalangioides. Y el abdomen y las alas de la típula. Lo demás se había hecho polvo.

El abdomen de la típula era casi el tamaño que el de la araña. Parece que no le falta comida.


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