I meant to post this on Friday, but I was having technical difficulties. Sadly, I haven’t seen her since Sunday, so she’s probably gone to that big web in the sky. But if those eggs hatch, I’ll have more pretty colorful spiders around to look at.
The other day, out in my garage, on the floor in the corner was a tiny little hummingbird, dead with a filthy giant black widow sucking its head! :eek:
I have a bunch of these Jewel spiders around the house. The largest has a body roughly the size of the tip of my thumb from the nail line up. I feed her grasshoppers occasionally.
I don’t mind spiders in general but some weeks ago I reached for my quilting to work on it and a stripy chunk spider was on it! Ahh! I was able to capture him in a tin and escort him outside. He was concentric black and brown stripes kind of like
No cool spiders (I sometimes get an orb weaver around) but this is the time of year when the flowering onions alongside the house are in bloom and attract both flies and preying mantises. I saw one the other day every bit as long as 4" and with legs that touched all ends of the mason jar I temporarily put her in to show my son. Her size and dark brown body mark her as a Chinese mantis but my personal favorites are the bright green ones whose long bodies become invisible in the grass-like onion foliage.