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Identify this spider web?

ZeroZero1

ZeroZero1 Posts: 577

September 2018 edited September 2018 in Problem solving

Today I walked along a cliff path in Swanage and saw this particularly dense, spiders web. Does anyone know the species?

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Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906

September 2018

It is probably not a spider's web but the web of a moth larva such as the Ermine moth or the Eastern Tent moth.

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Fire Posts: 19,096

September 2018

I would agree. It's caterpillars.

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ZeroZero1 Posts: 577

September 2018

thank you all. A very challenging location

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Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906

September 2018

Plenty of blackberries to come.

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