We discovered we have an orb weaver spider just outside our back door, and as much as she sort of freaks me out, we’ve decided to let her be. In the mornings, her web looks like this, but during the day she eats most of it and hangs out on the roof above it.
The boys love watching her and seeing her web change from day to day. Bruce, of course, figured out a way we could be more active participants in her life: he and the boys hunt for beetles and then throw them into the web and we watch her go after them. She’s amazingly fast at poisoning them and then wrapping them up in webbing.
As one of my friends said when I posted the video on Facebook: “If only I could make dinner that fast.”
Does “she” have a name. I am looking at Christmas presents and need to know if she is really one of the family or not.
Oh my bad, but I just can’t believe that the boys actually named her Charlotte. I thought that was just a default name until they came up with something better, like Webbie, or Punkin, or well anything quite not to Republican.
LOL. They haven’t named her at all. And I expect that she’ll be gone soon anyway. I asked Finn if he wanted to name her but he didn’t really have much of a response.