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funnel spider

September 8, 2026August 28, 2021 by Dave Bonta

The fog slowly lifts, except where it’s been trapped by funnel spider webs. The cardinal’s cheer seems a bit misplaced.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags cardinal, fog, funnel spider, spiderwebs
October 6, 2016 by Dave Bonta

The flashing light on the meter-reader’s truck emerges from the fog. The meadow is dotted with the white, inverted tents of funnel spiders.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags fog, funnel spider, spiderwebs, trucks
May 11, 2016 by Dave Bonta

Overnight fog has revealed the funnel spider webs in the meadow, a fleet of flying saucers hovering three feet above the ground.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags fog, funnel spider
September 17, 2014 by Dave Bonta

The stiltgrass stems are beginning to redden. In the shadows of the trees, funnel spider webs still sag with their night’s haul of dew.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags funnel spider, Japanese stiltgrass, spiders

The vibrating of a dead branch…

July 25, 2010 by Dave Bonta

The vibrating of a dead branch from which a bird has just flown. In a funnel spider web among the weeds, 14 raindrops from the last storm.

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Categories Plummer's Hollow Tags funnel spider, spiders

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On This Day

  • September 24, 2025
    Rain in widely scattered drops, a light seasoning over everything. It intensifies; a half-molted walnut tree begins leafleting the yard. It tapers off. A squirrel chisels open a nut.
  • September 24, 2024
    Rainy and cold. The tall goldenrod heads are bowed, flowering downward. A squirrel’s keening alarm for a hawk.
  • September 24, 2023
    Cold wind and rain, belied by all the cheerful yellow starting to move from the goldenrod up into the trees at the woods’ edge.
  • September 24, 2022
    A couple of cold nights and the yellow has spread like a contagion through the birches. A squirrel hangs down among the green walnuts.
  • September 24, 2021
    Clear and cold. I see that the stiltgrass stems have all turned color in the yard—a chaos of feathery green threaded through with red.

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