Challenging Habitat Blog

Outdoor Daily III

You guessed it: still (very) damp out here. I’m still looking for the beauty in small things… …and wonder how a spider catches dinner in a net decorated with a thousand droplets?

Outdoor Daily

Sometime it’s worth keeping your eyes glued to the ground. Atypia affinis is a hunting spider that waits for prey to walk across its tuba shaped net spilling out of its burrow. Then it rushes out, stabs its… Read More

Outdoor Daily

Finding the beauty of drizzle caught in a spider’s web.

Outdoor Daily

Such are the entertainments during lockdown that I find myself staring into space wondering who made it. Don’t worry, this is not going to be a deep discussion about existential questions: I’m looking at holes in the hedgerows,… Read More