Exbury Azalea Blooms with Little Spider
by Louise Kumpf
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Exbury Azalea Blooms with Little Spider
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Louise Kumpf
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In late May the gorgeous salmon, pink and white blossoms of this Exbury azalea attract many daddy-long-legs spiders. Their pungent aroma also attracts many other insects. Blooming in my New Jersey garden.
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July 21st, 2014
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Ellen Tully
You have captured these Azalea blooms so well. Wonderful work and I think there could be another daddy longlegs hiding in the upper left inside a flower with only a couple of legs extending. On the subject of daddy longlegs, when we were on a camping trip once, they were mating on the lamp post where our lantern hung. One male services a bunch of females. There were 2 males surrounded by lonts of females. Quite a site to see all those legs. I had never known their mating habits until I saw that and the park ranger told us.
Louise Kumpf replied:
Thank you, Ellen. You have a great eye! I've never had the privilege of witnessing the daddy long legs mating rituals, but there must be a lot of that going on around here 'cause there seem to be hundreds of them on my porches alone. They are very welcome though! I like the way their shape seems to mirror the lillies' stamens in this photo.