taken 7 years ago, 3 km from Wordwell, Suffolk, England
Webs on gorse
I had a look at the easier bits to get at and could not see anything - I was expecting sawfly larvae (that look like caterpillars): some communal species protect the colony with such webbing. In looking things up later, I found this is the work of gorse spider mites. I had overlooked, and probably could not get close to, the orange bits at some of the vertices. These are doubtless huddles of the tiny mites, Tetranychus lintearius.
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