It's that morbid fascination. The train wreck thing. You just gotta see it, even if it's horrible!The thing is, I just CAN'T not open a spider thread. It's like if I don't do it, then it may be worse than I think. I can't explain it. I have to see what I don't want to see, but I can't read about any of the details or I'll have spider nightmares, seriously.
Awww! It's wonderful that you let her live in your kitchen window. I remember when you mentioned this spider previously.
Very cool, @stracci!! have a very healthy respect for black widows! They are the ones which I’m most afraid of around here. But they do mind their own business mostly due to being weavers and staying around their webs.
I have only recently come to appreciate the spiders around due to a lovely experience with the cat faced orb weaver which lived in my kitchen window through her life span ( one year) and died in early summer. She grew from a teeny tiny baby with a tiny web to a large orb weaver. She taught me a lot just in reflection...how life can appear out of seemingly nothing, and the humility of living her life the way she did, in the window frame, and how she ‘weaved everyday anew in the space which she had.’ That became a metaphor for holding the space when my daughter was gone and diagnosed with MS. And she did some very goofy things which were quite funny, like missing while weaving and falling clumsily on her back into the sink a few times. She would lay on her back stunned and then come to and climb back up. Lol. I really miss her! Did a little ceremony when she died and my youngest 2 buried her because they loved ‘Sheila’. She was a gentle beautiful creature.
Here is a picture after she died.
i hate having to mess up a web some spider has worked all night onShe's a beaut. Here we have wood spiders that are big and furry and look like tarantulas. They're pretty scary. We also have brown recluses and you gotta watch out for those inside in the fall because they'll hole up in your shoes or anyplace dark. My only issue with spiders is when they build webs in my doorways and I walk right out into them sometimes. Then I feel terrible for ruining their web.And for messing up my hair.
very beauriful girlWell, the above mentioned black widow spider seems to have disappeared. The web is abandoned.
However, I found a brown widow under a chair in the backyard, and I got DH to photograph her with his macro lens. This one has stripes!
It's that time of year again.
We have several black widows in our backyard. Here's one of the bigger ones. I tossed a small seed pod into her web, and she came out of the crevace to investigate. She's over an inch long, legs and all, and her abdomen is about 10mm.
It's that time of year again.
We have several black widows in our backyard. Here's one of the bigger ones. I tossed a small seed pod into her web, and she came out of the crevace to investigate. She's over an inch long, legs and all, and her abdomen is about 10mm.
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