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Fungus or spider web?

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Field Notes

Description:

Found after snow melted on a damp day in Winter, a few more were in my yard too.

Habitat:

On top of grass.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (10)
keithp2012
I've spotted this again this year! It only happens in winter after snow falls, still don't know what is making it.
keithp2012
There are no amphibians here, and this was discovered after the snow melted, there were more like this in the lawn. Grass spiders are common here, but I doubt when it was this cold. Might be some type of mold or fungus, or mabye some type of small gnat larva?
Ivan Rodriguez
That's what I was thinking Alex, that as a spider web, it really has no need to look so strange and it looks completely unintentional. I mean that it does not appear to be "made" for something, but is a thing that "happened" due to a cause that someone with more experience can explain to us. :)
AlexKonig
maybe slime from : slugs,toads or eel, some amphibian were mating, toads which come out of hibernation (you mentioned: snow melt). For an spider-web has it no use or it must be 2 webs, otherwise is the middle of the web not usable. It reminds me at the tracks: slugs left behind after they "ran" over moss!
KatCuff
Did it get wet and freeze?
KatCuff
I'm going with web, just not sure what.

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PublishedFebruary 19, 2011

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