My Zig Zag Spider web , sure enough!
#31
And did the "shoe" lock up your keyboard when you whacked the spider????I don't like spiders, but I also don't kill them--it's bad luck to kill a spider. I do like one of the other ladies said, capture them somehow and wait for hubby to come home and throw get rid of it outdoors.....
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I used to teach spiders in October in my classroom...and the students loved the unit. I had this spider in my yard one year and watched it grow from a baby to full grown. The zigzag on the web became smaller and thinner, the older the spider got. One day I blew a bug into its web, and was amazed at how fast it pounced on it and wrapped it up in silk...about two seconds! Finally it made a huge egg sac that was the size of a ping pong ball. It was a brown color and looked like an upside down balloon. It was on the siding of our house and was there for awhile. Then one day i noticed that it had deflated...all the babies were gone.
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Thank you for sharing. I don't mind spiders as long as they stay outside. For some reason they like my shower. I scoop them up and put them outside, although I have one busy mama spider who is allowed to live in the corner of my kitchen window. She has been really busy this summer because the cat tore a hole in the screen. I don't mind spiders because they eat all the bugs! Moths, fruit flies, house flies, crane flies - you name it, that spider takes care of it.
#36
She is a beauty! I love and hate spiders all at the same time. Here is some info. I would never kill a spider and always remove them from my presence. The only thing worse than a spider is a flying spider.
http://spiderindex.blogspot.com/2010...-aurantia.html
http://spiderindex.blogspot.com/2010...-aurantia.html
Last edited by ube quilting; 08-31-2012 at 10:22 AM.
#38
i'm happy to read that it's no threat to us human beans. whew!
how lucky you are to have such a beauty to watch!
how lucky you are to have such a beauty to watch!
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I think spiders are fascinating! The web is the strongest "string" for its size, and scientists have not been able to duplicate it. They are voracious eaters of other bugs, so I leave the webs for as long as I can stand them.
When we brought my newborn DD home from the hospital, there was a garden spider in the kitchen window. With a little imagination (maybe it was leftovers of anesthesia!) you could read NU LUV in the web. At 39, she still is a wonderful, lovely woman. Maybe I read Charlotte's Web too many times.
When we brought my newborn DD home from the hospital, there was a garden spider in the kitchen window. With a little imagination (maybe it was leftovers of anesthesia!) you could read NU LUV in the web. At 39, she still is a wonderful, lovely woman. Maybe I read Charlotte's Web too many times.
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