Image (c) Lewis Scharpf
We've been watching a spider build a HUGE web across a little-used side door at our house. Unfortunately, before I was able to get a good picture of either the web or the spider, Andy had to displace the spider (he didn't kill her) and take down the web because it FREAKED him out. I'm proud that he managed to move the spider across the yard, considering he is a serious archanophobe.We did managed to identify her, though. We figured out she was an orb-weaver by the size and design of her web. But, I had never seen a green spider like her before, so it took a while to track her down. We finally found out that she most likely is a Giant Lichen Orbweaver. Check out those links for more pictures. This was one impressive looking spider.
We also have a funnel spider living outside our den window. She's built a pretty impressive web as well, in a very different form. We'll see if I can get some photos of that before Andy displaces her, too!
swim log: a pathetic 600 yards.
1 comments:
Pretty.
I hate those funnel webs. They are soooooo hard to get rid of. Although I do very much like the fact that spiders eat bugs.
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