Spider Web Gallery

Dr. Peter N Witt related Spider Web and Spider Photographs, shared by WNC (MSS 92_6)

: Peter N Witt – Argiope aurantia (color)

: Peter N Witt – Araneus diadematus (ventral)

: Peter N Witt – Araneus diadematus (dorsal)

: Peter N Witt – Araneus diadematus (color)

: Peter N Witt – Gasteracanta cancriformis

: Peter N Witt – Gasteracanta cancriformis

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Argiope aurantia (color)

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Argiope aurantia (close-up)

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Araneus diadematus, Laser lesion

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Araneus diadematus, with weight

: Dr. Peter N Witt -Araneus diadematus, with prey

: Dr. Peter N Witt Araneus diadematus, with prey

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Argiope aurantia cocoon

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Argiope aurantia cocoon

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Araneus diadematus moulting

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Araneus diadematus spiral laying (from Peters)

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Araneus diadematus pulling thread

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Araneus diadematus descending

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Araneus diadematus regular descent

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Araneus diadematus free falling

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Araneus diadematus running

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Araneus diadematus between threads

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Araneus diadematus releasing thread

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Araneus diadematus pulling thread

: Dr. Peter N Witt -Araneus diadematus side view

: Dr. Peter N Witt -Araneus diadematus with prey in color

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Araneus diadematus babies aggregating

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Regurgitation feeding, Theridion (Kullmann 70/71)

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Predigestion by mother, Stegodyphus

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Young eat mother’s prey, Theridion

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Mother carrying young, Theridion

: Dr. Peter N Witt -Joint feeding in Mallos gregalis

: Dr. Peter N Witt -Feeding in Araneus diadematus and Mallos gregalis

: Dr. Peter N Witt -Feeding in web, Mallos gregalis

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Feeding in web, Mallos gregalis close-up

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Feeding in web, Mallos gregalis close-up

: Web Araneus diadematus – Spider Web

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Webs Zygiella-x-notata, Neoscona Hentzii

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Web Argiope aurantia, Araneus diadematus

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Web Hyptiotes cavatis

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Web Nephila madagasc.

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Web Argiope argentata

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Web Argiope aurantia

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Web Zygiella-x-notata

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Web Neoscona hentzii

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Web Araneus, pima adult female

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Nephila madagasc. early stage

: Dr. Peter N Witt -Nephila madagasc. medium stage

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Nephila madagasc. late stage

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Zygiella-x-notata, incomplete web

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Zygiella-x-notata, half-schemat.

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Araneus diadematus, bridge thread

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Araneus diadematus, Y structure

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Araneus diadematus, male web

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Metepeira spinnipes, combin. web

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Mallos gregalis web

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Y

: Dr. Peter N Witt – 5 radii

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Oversized angles

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Auxiliary spiral

: Dr. Peter N Witt -Auxiliary spiral

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Spiral early stage

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Spiral mid stage

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Spiral late stage

: Dr. Peter N Witt – 6 stages

: Dr. Peter N Witt -Bridge thread

: Spider Web- Dr. Peter N Witt – 8 numbered radii

: Spider Web- Dr. Peter N Witt – Radius burning

: Spider Web- Dr. Peter N Witt – Total radius sequence

: Spider Web- Dr. Peter N Witt -3 radius sequences

: Spider Web- Dr. Peter N Witt – Auxiliary spiral, Paul Peters

: Spider Web- Dr. Peter N Witt – Web joke in Punch

: Spider Web- Dr. Peter N Witt – Shortest way spiral

: Spider Web- Dr. Peter N Witt – Early communal baby web

: Spider Web- Dr. Peter N Witt – Late communal baby web

: Spider Web- Dr. Peter N Witt – 4 hatching stages

: Spider Web- Dr. Peter N Witt -3 ages of webs of Araneus diadematus

: Spider Web- Dr. Peter N Witt -3 ages of webs of Araneus diadematus

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Araneus diadematus, teenage web

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Araneus diadematus, teenage web

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Araneus diadematus, web repair

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Minus one leg (light disturbance)

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Minus one leg (severe disturbance)

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Minus every other radius, Peters

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Control web

: Dr. Peter N Witt – After serrated bristles cut off (Foelix)

: Dr. Peter N Witt – After regeneration

: Dr. Peter N Witt -Web built after weight was added to spider

: Dr. Peter N Witt – 1. Space web, NASA

: Dr. Peter N Witt – 1. Space web, NASA

: Dr. Peter N Witt -2. Space web, NASA

: Dr. Peter N Witt – 2. Space web, NASA

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Vibration control web, NASA

: Dr. Peter N Witt – Old age web of Araneus pima

Dr Peter Witt works with a spider web, 1973

Dr Peter Witt works with a spider web, 1973

Dr Peter Witt‘s work applied drugs to orb web spiders using spider web geometry to identify biochemical abnormalities. Peter Witt (1940’s – 1990’s)’s comprehensive body of work features articles (Life, National Geographic), Spider Communication, Life on a Thread and his work with the North Carolina Department of Mental Health.

After what he always described as his accidental discovery of the effects of drugs on the geometry of the orb spider web, a major portion of Dr Peter Witt’s subsequent written work (over 100 papers and 3 books) was concerned with the behavior and biology of spiders. Scientific Articles offer Peter Witt’s complete works, while human interest articles include features like experiments by NASA in the Skylab with the spider web in the early 1970’s.

“He was a man of courage when it was dangerous to be so, of boldness in his experiments and of generosity with his colleagues, students and friends” said Charles Reed in Peter Witt’s 1998 obituary. He is survived by his daughters, Elise Witt and Mary Witt.