The Children Are Leaving Home

These baby spiders are the size of a pinhead, barely able to be seen with the naked eye (Do prescription glasses count?)  Some are abseiling out, the others have run to the top of the flax leaf.

A silken thread ran between this flax leaf and another and the babies were strung out along it like beads. The camera struggled to pick them up .  Most attempts to  focus on the tiny babies failed, but I managed to get a couple of shots that were more or less successful.

The main blip had the house behind them and the spiders showed up as a translucent pink. In the extra, is one with the sky as a backdrop and they showed darker, as little silhouettes. It was very hard to decide which one to blip and I chose the pic showing them as pink, as that was more true to their actual colour.

I wonder how long these wee ones will survive in the big world. They would be a tasty meal for many birds.

Thanks goes to Riwaka7 for taking on the role of host to tiny Tuesday this month.