Sunday, August 12, 2007

I had to do quite a bit of tweaking to the following picture so you could see what I saw. One night this week, I was looking out on my balcony late at night, to see how wet it was (had rained quite hard almost every day). I had turned on the little outside light I have, and when I looked up at it before turning the light off, I noticed a HUGE spiderweb right in front of it.


The accent of the light against the back of the web gave a nice effect, but I was not able to capture that with the camera. You can't see it now, but there is a spider in the middle of the web, waiting for a bug to come along and get caught. I was a meanie though, and broke one of the lower support threads, so the web collapsed against the light. By morning the web and spider were both gone.

11 comments:

  1. I think that is the biggest web I have ever seen. Impressive!!!!

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  2. WOW! I haven't seen one that big in ages!Awesome. What kind of spider was it?

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  3. Poor lil' spider... huddled somewhere starving to death, getting all striveled and dried out... you could have shown mercy and zapped it with your Xecuter Blaster 360... but no.

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  4. Well....that explains the spider with the knapsack on my doorstep this morning. She was muttering something about a homewrecker in Chicago and that she'd heard the bugs were bigger in Texas anyhow.....

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  5. That's an awesome spider web!

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  6. some people have quite the imagination. LOL

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  7. Since I am no expert on arachnids, I have no clue as to what kind of spider it was. From the backside, with the light shining on it, it looked sort of yellowish-orangish, but that could have just been the light effect. I would guess, with the legs spread, it was about an inch in diameter, so I was definitely glad it wasn't inside my apartment.

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  8. I woke up at 5AM the other morning because I felt "something" crawling on my arm. I realized it must be a bug or spider, so I quick brushed my arm, reached up behind me and turned on the ceiling fan light, and then smacked the shit out of a black spider. *has the heebie jeebies now* (want to live at my place for awhile?) LOL

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