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Large web with the spider and its stored food shown.
caterpillars which produce wild silk of ...
These are Silk Button Galls and are ...
The Japanese silk moth or Japanese
These spiders have long legs with clumps of hair on them. They are fairly ...
A beautiful moth cat. About 9 inch in length. found feeding on
It is often called a silkworm in the US as well. The reason for this is that it ...
I found this cocoon on my deck. It was attached to a twig that had broken off ...
The Japanese Silk Moth or Japanese
And now for the spottings from Japan.
The Japanese
Web: about 2ft. in diameter and about 5ft. off the ground. Also known as the ...
A tall tree with beautiful orange-yellow flowers arranged like little brushes. ...
Color varies from reddish to greenish yellow w/ distinct whiteness around the ...
Large, yellow abdomen with hair tufts on the legs. This is the female, the ...
The male is the very small one, and the female is much larger, as is typical ...
A Pale grey tree about 50 feet high with green striated leaves and beautiful ...
Translucent neon green caterpillar approximately 3" in length and 0.75" in ...
This male is building a pendant nest out of lichen and moss wrapped in spider ...
didn't see her in time. The web was huge, spreading at least 10 feet ...
Daddy longlegs with only one body segment and very long legs. In an
it had started last night. It used a leaf and a paper bag, in addition to its ...
uncommon, and can be found in the rain aswell as on clear evenings. As with ...
Large, colorful moth in the Saturniidae family. (
spider hanging underneath it. It was hung between two branches in an
The Silk button Gall ----is abundant on the ...
thin - like a ping-pong ball. I could not tell if it was wood or leave or ...
molting. They lay down strands of silk as ...
Large colorful spiders about 2.5". They have multi-layer webs with a large ...
Pale green with 2 pairs of horn like projections with black spines, and 3 pairs ...