Can you guess what this is? Plus last week's answer and winner!
October 24, 2022
Monday Nature Mystery
We are pleased to announce the winner of our Monday Nature Mystery, Sandra Parshall. (Please email your snail mail address and preference for a hat or tote bag to [email protected].)
Congratulations to Sandra for correctly identifying the Marbled Orb-weaver (Araneus marmoreus). According to Bug of the Week, this spider, also known as the pumpkin spider, spins a web with radial threads like the spokes of a wheel where it places sticky, spiral capture-threads. Capture-threads are remarkable evolutionary products of millions of years of bioengineering. Each capture-thread has a core of silk bearing scores of tiny droplets of viscous glycoproteins. These glycoproteins give the web its stickiness. Don’t miss the chance to learn more about native spiders at tomorrow’s webinar! Register here.
Last Week's mystery: Marbled Orb-weaver (Araneus marmoreus). Photo: Judy Gallagher
Each Monday we’ll post a new photo and identify the previous week’s winner. They’ll receive an ASNV hat or tote bag.
Be sure to post your answer on our Facebook page @AudubonVA under the Monday Mystery post...do not reply to this email with your guess! We only accept entries from our Facebook page, not via email.
Please remember to write the common name, being mindful of hyphens, uppercase and lowercase letters and always include the Latin name in parentheses. To learn more about bird names click here.
Photo: Dana Greindl/Audubon Photography Awards
This week’s Mystery: Who is this?
Post your guess (please list both common name and Latin name) on our Facebook page @AudubonVA under this week's Monday Nature Mystery. Remember, we only accept entries from our Facebook page, not via email!
Good luck!
-Audubon Society of Northern Virginia
Please note that we only accept entries on our Facebook page where they are date- and time-stamped. Remember that, if you need to correct your entry, you should make a new posting rather than correcting the old one so that we get a correct time stamp for your correction. Winners are limited to one prize every 90 days.
