Before starting my hunt for a spiderweb, I had brainstormed some locations that spiders may be present on campus. My first thought was to look in the older academic buildings on campus, such as Bartlett, Herter, or any of the Morrill Science Buildings. It was easiest for me to check the Morrill Science Buildings first due to the fact that I have many classes in that area of campus. I have many classes in Morrill II, so I had investigated there first. As I was looking for a spider web in Morrill II, I knew to look for areas that were undisturbed. This was because undisturbed areas, such as corners and closets, would give a spider the opportunity to build a web without any confrontation. I slowly walked through each hallway on every floor, looking in corners and stairwells. Finally on the third floor in the hallway connecting the Morrill II building and the Morrill III building, I came across a encaved rectangle in the wall. There was nothing placed in this groove in the wall and had looked untouched for a decent amount of time. I approached the bottom left corner of the groove and found a small spider sitting in the middle of a faint web. I took several pictures of the spider and its web with the flash on. Some pictures were facing down toward the web and a couple others were taken against the left wall in order to view the definition of the web. The flash seemed to scare the spider further back into the corner so I tried not to take more pictures than I needed. In addition, I took a picture of the hallway the indentation the in the wall was located in order to orient my reader as to where I found the spiderweb.
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