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About a week ago, on a relatively warm spring morning, my dog Mai Coh and I were beginning our daily dawn walk when I noticed, in the small field below the pond damn, myriad shimmering objects ornamenting the grass.
In getting closer to one, I realized they were spider webs, each no more than six inches across. They had all appeared at once, overnight.
Obviously the web-building behavior of their architects, Sheet Web Spiders (also known as Sheet web Weavers) had been triggered by the change of temperature and the accompanying burgeoning of the local insect population.
Few of these webs were in evidence in most of the pastures. The reason they abounded in this small patch of grass and weeds was probably because it had not been mowed or molested by livestock in some time.
Sheet-Web Spiders are a subfamily of Dwarf Spiders and Sheet-Web Weavers (Lynyphinidae), a sprawling family of some 3,500 species that are among the least known of spiders. What is known is that they like tall
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