Spider web

[uncledj]

Came home from work just as the wife was going outside to throw some fish food in the pond. Amazing how many fish are in that small pond. Anyhoo, she screams that she needs a stick 'cause there's a BIG spider over here. I went and took a look, and was fascinated by this guy (gal?). I sat there and watched it buid a web for about a half an hour. Amazing. How can that little spider know how to do that bit of architecture.....and do it so efficiently.

 

So I smashed it with a shovel........

 

Just kidding. I'll see what the finished product looks like tomorrow, if I can keep the wife from going after it with a stick. lol:cool10:

[Woody]

that looks like one of the good guys it likes to eat what bugs us.

[Flyinfool]

I love finding those in the woods when the deer flies are buzzing around my head.

I just hold my head close to the web and give ol spidy a treat.

[uncledj]

that looks like one of the good guys it likes to eat what bugs us.

 

That's what I told the wife......I said leave 'em alone, ...he's doin' what he's supposed to do.

[Stealthblade]

 

That's what I told the wife......I said leave 'em alone, ...he's doin' what he's supposed to do.

 

That's the hardest thing to tell the wife. "Leave him alone, he's working FOR us"

She never believes me.

[slowrollwv]

We had three of these spinning webs on our front porch. Two have egg sacks in them. We leave the light on all night and they do a number on the bugs.

 

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/fieldbio/Spiders_Savransky_Suhd_Brondstatter/Images_Edited/Argiope_aurantia_1_edited_resiz

[Eck]

If you throw a small bug into the web, watch how fast that spider gets to it, grabs it and webs a cocoon around it..to not only kill it, but to save it for a rainy day...

[Stealthblade]

If you throw a small bug into the web, watch how fast that spider gets to it, grabs it and webs a cocoon around it..to not only kill it, but to save it for a rainy day...

 

Eck, you old romantic.