the common milkweed: It's the Little Things: Ray Spider Egg Case

Thursday, September 4, 2014

It's the Little Things: Ray Spider Egg Case

We found so many of these little egg cases while hiking not long ago. Thanks to the Tracks and Sign of Insects we identified the little case to belong to some type of ray spider.

The cases are so tiny and so whimsical...all these little ornaments adorning the woodland greenery.

How cool it is to live and experience the wonders of nature!

1 comment:

SondraSeptember 4, 2014 at 10:51 PM
Spiders are really on the move lately...I've been seeing them everywhere!!
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Common Milkweed

Why The Common Milkweed? Well many reasons: 1 - It's important! Milkweed is the only larval food for the Monarch Butterfly and food for many other invertebrates. 2 - It's common, yet possesses singular beauty and therefore represents all the beauty in and around us (right under our noses and on "this side of the fence") and the potential for that common beauty to be recognized, expressed and celebrated. 3 - Its persistence in less than ideal growing conditions proves that the beauty contained in the common endures.