Field guide No. 378

A spider sits at the edge of a dewy orb web in a fern garden, and where a beam of light hits it, half the web glows in the colours of the rainbow. The flies will not see it coming, eventually.

Orb weaver’s rainbow silk

The web refracts.

A spider sits at the edge of a dewy orb web in a fern garden, and where a beam of light hits it, half the web glows in the colours of the rainbow. The flies will not see it coming, eventually.

Field noteSilk can glint in colours. Half a web lit as a full spectrum is a prism with legs.

Specimen
No. 378
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
A dewy fern garden.
Nearest existing relative
An orb-weaver spider.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics