I always hated spiders until tonight. I was sitting by the window, watching a large spider spin her web and check her lines for captured insects. There was about 10-20 smaller spiders, which I assume are her offspring. Watching the mother spider, I realized just how amazing that they really are. Mother Spider may not appear to be smart, but she spun her webs by a bright light, where many insects are attracted. Humans tend to think that we're the smartest, we're the best, etc. Just because we're smart doesn't mean our fellow creatures are stupid. Mother Spider is spinning her web as I type this. I have a nest of spider eggs in my room that I was planning on killing. I think I'll move them to a location where they'll be able to grow and thrive instead.
Haha, true. I'm not exactly sure as to why spiders always choose my room for their nests. There is little other insects or any other food for that matter to eat, and the temperature varies greatly throughout the day. Whatever the temperature outside is will be the temperature in in my room. It's kind of cool and annoying at the same time. Especially in winter.
Once I saw a spider with babies on her back. Holy shit, talk about scads. She was outside, so it was a-ok. And most spiders inside we leave alone anyway, unless they have issues jumping on/landing on people, then we try to catch them and move them outside. When the cops invaded the other day, there was a beautiful big spider making a web in the corner between the hallway and the front door, and those bastards knocked its house down and killed it. I was so mad. If they want to be free of spiders, they came to the wrong house, because if there's a spider building it's web by the door, that's cool with me, because we have really bad flies, moths, and mosquitos right now and I'd much rather nature take care of itself than me running around with a can of fly spray.
i've always loved spiders. i tease them occasionally though, when i want to make it rain. i usually can't find them though when i want them to do this. i don't know how well it works really, but its a fun thought and i heard about it either from someone or in reading about stories that were/are common, in cultures that the one most of us are surrounded by usurped. i forget the real deal in detail, but i think it started with coyote having some kind of a thing for spider woman, always trying to look up her skirt when she climbed up high to make her house. i'm not sure how this relates to making rain, but anyway, i find spiders to be pretty much cool. =^^= .../\...
You wouldn't think she was so nice if after a nice evening things started getting kinda hot. You expressed your love physically, and then she ate you.
i kill a certain number of them. the bites on my daughters can get a bit ridiculous. but they're handy to have around, if they stay in their proper places.
we have a daddy long leg that visits our room a few times a week. he lives outside in the window well. his name is fred
