Something amazing has happened! One day the entire porch was covered with microscopic orb weavers making webs. They were male and female and all the same size. There’s only one explanation for why so many identically sized orb weavers of both genders would be cohabitating in mass quantity like this. They are siblings! An egg …
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The Strange and Brutally Short Life Cycle of Spiders
I first spotted Crystal while mowing the grass on the west side of the house. She had made a web up against the side of the house and attached it to a tall weed in the grass. I spoke to her and told her she was welcome and warned her of the danger of praying …
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Ruby’s Offspring
One morning i was walking from the house to the extension shed when i noticed something round sitting in the middle of the yucca plant in front of the shed porch. It was a white ball with brown squiggly lines on it, suspended from the inner spikes of the yucca by some sort of woven …