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Most exciting sighting while doing site visits for BioBlitz 2016! We were concerned that it might be unwell. It was foraging and eating about 12 feet away from about a dozen people watching it on the trail in the middle of the day.

Shaky video: https://goo.gl/photos/Z2YmpZrT8sb3ehMF8

Seen with @jbrown and @maryeford.

My Second Featherlegged Orbweaver
There was a second web with a second spider nearby. This one is from above the spider so you can see the other side of it. Same unique web. Same strange shaped spider in the center. Very cool not only to find a new kind of spider, but to find 2 of them.

Small-Flower Pawpaw - FYI, I made a sweep in the general area where a first Asimina parviflora was found and stopped counting at 50 plants. These were scattered over a 2 - 3 acre area and I have since located a few more plants farther down the ridge. The tallest A. parviflora is about 10' - 12' tall and was the only plant with any fruit that I could find. Most plants are small in the 1' - 3' range.

found together with my colleague Dr Henry Ndangalasi of the Univ of Dar es Salaam. Found several on the same plant, but nowhere else nearby. All individuals were rather comparable in shape and the fly species was the same, but remains unidentified. Not sure of the species of fungus is correct, so please assist experts.