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[platypus]

Especially for trista: The Spider Who Ate My Apartment Complex, revisited.





We got to watch it spinning its web over my potato vine when we got home from work tonight. It's pretty cool -- the spider spirals around the framework of the web, filling in strands, guiding the filaments with one hind leg in a very practiced motion, tapping the cross strands into place at every intersection. That's the new thread it's pulling along with the upper hind leg in the photo. It was scurrying along very quickly, hence the bits of blur.

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[dahliablue.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness, we both watched spiders spin webs tonight. Haha..

You know what's even more odd? I think we watched the same kind of spider. The one I was watching looked just like that.

Beautiful picture. I tried to capture mine (photo capture, only), but it was too dark and the spider moved too fast. That's a great shot, despite its movement.

[trista.livejournal.com]

It's a spider just for me! How much does that rock? That thing is so cool in an incredibly creepy sort of way. I think I'd have been able to watch it spinning its web for hours.