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Webby lawn?
Hi Bugman,
I just discovered your web site while doing a google search in an effort to find out what is decorating our Minnesota lawn overnight. What an amazing and informative site you have… it’s terrific! I did not, however, find an answer to my decorating question. I don’t have a photo of a bug, but rather the results of its handiwork. It’s apparently a spider (or rather, many thousands of spiders) doing this job. ALL of the large grassy area is covered by these webs. Do you have any idea what does this? The only guess I can come up with, considering that the webs are all pretty much parallel, is that they are webs that float in the air during the day and they drop when the breeze dies and the dew sets in. Then again, there really wasn’t much dew this morning when I took these photos…. just the webs sparkling in the sunlight. Or maybe it’s the silks left behind by a herd of caterpillars heading south for the winter???? Thanks for your help!
Candis Gengler

Hi Candis,
Once, long ago, we answered this question, and it is somewhere in the Spider archive which currently consists of five general pages and several other specialty pages. These are Grass Spider Webs. Grass Spiders are funnel web builders in the family Agelenidae. Often lawns are covered as your photo indicates, and the webs are most visible in the morning when they catch dew.

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