This is our very intimidating-looking, but very friendly bug-eating spider. It hangs out (literally) in the shrubs near our front porch. So long as it stays right where it is and continues to eat bugs we're all OK. But as soon as it tries to come inside all bets are off.
We didn't get a picture of the other one, but we have a very adventurous spider who makes big big webs all around the yard. The other night he had made one that stretched from a tree to a bush about 20 feet away, spinning a web across the driveway. Dad saw the spider in mid-air, creating the one strand of web. He has no idea how the first strand came to be because it just seems like an impossible web to create. But he did it. Then the other night he had a web build right in the walkway going up to the front porch. Dad was bringing some house guests in and stopped inches from walking right into the spider itself. He politely moved the web like opening a door. Like I said before, as long as they are eating the bugs, we're OK with these spiders. This one isn't as pretty as the one pictured, but it works hard to keep the bugs in check.
5 comments:
My human loves garden spiders. I bet they would be tasty!
Lovely as long as it stays outside.
Wow! What a magnificent fellow that one is! That web sounds amazing! Our people are gracious about the webs too, even though sometimes they make the house look unkempt.
Our mum doesn't like spiders. She sends us to deal with them.
Wow, that is one big spider! Our mom hopes it stays outside too!
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