Spider

I would have

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screamed like a little girl. Spiders are the only things that scare me more than humans.

Frank
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Well, depends on the little girl. My younger daughter used to drive her sister crazy with fauna brought into the house. She thought they were "cool.":eek:



(Also, there was a lot to be said for having something that drove your sister nuts.)
 
The big, beautiful garden spider almost bit the dust when DDT and other pesticides began accumulating in the bloodstreams of predators who fed on nice juicy crop eating bugs. I would be glad to release some of these in my garden....they are spectacular, and are hard workers on your behalf (poison is relatively mild). We have long since made peace with the hand size wolf spiders that come up thru our deck at night, and they are welcome. Sure easier to feed than a noisy rotweiller, and just about as effective when unsuspecting idiots walk into a BIG web :D :D :D
 
Dan, those gals were all over the orange groves of the California of my youth (notwithstanding the DDT in use). They would build webs from one tree to another - 6-10 feet apart. We'd collect bugs and pitch them on the webs to watch the "action." Then I found a tarantula out in the desert and brought him home. Mom was NOT amused. "But Mom, Harry is tame! You can pet him!" PET HIM! GET THAT THING OUT OF HERE!!!!!!! (A year later she found the pet snake in the box on the top shelf in my closet - by reaching her hand into the box. :eek:)
 
Looks like some of the ones I ran into in the woods around and in Ft. Hood, TX. They'd have webs that ran between trees 6-8 ft in diameter. They ate everything from moths to humming birds. Kind of freaky to walk thu one of those webs at night. (Shudder, shiver, suppress girlish scream)
 
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