fruitbag spiders

[letumgo]

swellcat - Sweet fly. I love the love the light reflected thru the blue abdomen. Nice translucent effect. Cool photo too.

[Ruard]

Very nice job of recycling non-biodegradable materials, Ruard. That last one could be named "Synthetic Dark Watchet" .

excellent Bill, That shall it be ( is that English??)

greeting


Ruard

[Ruard]

Thank you all for the nice words.

I have tied 5 on the B175 #12 and 5 on the Hayabusha 1390 #14 All of them the Synthetic Dark Watchet


greeting


Ruard

[crazy4oldcars]

Wonderful flies, Ruard. Those should be able to entice a bite.

Another source, at least here in the States, is in the cleaning products.
There is a non-abrasive pot scrubber made from similar plastic strands, and it comes in 4 or 5 bright colors. The individual fibers are 1 to 1.5 mm (about 1/16th inch) wide, but crinkly.


I seem to remember the other 2 being orange and yellow.

Kirk

[swellcat]

Until this evening, the plastic fruit-bag strands had been just by-products of buying apples and oranges and grapefruit. Today, though, pale pink (Mataura Mayfly's favourite colour) jumped out at me from the onion bin. I wasn't in need of more onions, but, by golly, I have them now (and fried one in a fiery batter for supper). First time I've bought produce just so I could get my mitts on the glorious plastic strands/tying material enclosing it.