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The Numbers Game #23, May 27, 2024 Come Play Along!!!

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Parties in your unfinished basement?
Spider

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Welcome to “The Numbers Game #23”  Today’s number is 144. To play along, go to your photos file and type that number into the search bar. Then post a selection of the photos you find under that number and include a link to your blog in my Numbers Game blog of the day. If instead of numbers, you have changed the identifiers of all your photos into words, pick a word or words to use instead, and show us a variety of photos that contain that word in the title.

This prompt will repeat each  Monday with a new number. If you want to play along, please put a link to your blog in comments below.

Spinners, for Denzil’s Nature Photo Challenge

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The golden orb weaver spider featured in the first five photos is the spider I find to be most fascinating. The heavier zigzag web closest to its body  is sticky, which allows the spider  to capture and stun its prey with a quick bite, then to wrap it in silk. With venomous insects, the wrapping precedes the bite, which seems illogical, but must indicate that the spinning  is a rapid process. Only 1/2 of all spiders , including the tarantula pictured above, do not spin webs, but all produce silk. 

 

 

For Denzil’s Nature Photo Challenge: Spiders and their Webs

Web Mavens

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I have seen the most unusual spiders since moving to Mexico 15 years ago.  The one little black and white triangular spider, I’ve spotted at least 3 different times in the past 15 years and they always have an uneven number of legs.  Must run in the family as it can’t be possible that the same spider has lived for 15 years.  The Golden Orb Weaver spider is my favorite.  It weaves the most interesting web.  This one remained in this spot where I saw it every day on the way to my car for over a month.

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