Sunday, October 12, 2014

Arachnids!

                                                            (Taken by Sergio Campos)

         Spiders are interesting in my opinion, for instance the spider in the picture above is a very small spider and it was able to build that web.  The web is about six inches in diameter and the spider is about one centimeter or less. Amazingly that little spider made it. I wonder how it still survives because daily I observe it and there are no bugs in sight on the web. I don't know what kind of spider it is but I did research and I wasn't able to find the exact spider like the one in the picture, I did notice that it is hairy and has black or brown marks on its abdomen top and bottom. I do also wonder if it is a baby or an adult. I haven't seen bigger spiders near by other than his neighbor the long-bodied cellar spider also known as the daddy long leg. The day I spotted the spider on it's web and I continued to observe closer I then saw the daddy long leg, it didn't do much but stay still. Some say that the daddy long leg is harmless because of its small fangs and some say that they eat bugs. So back to the unknown spider who knows if it's poisonous or not, that's a scary thought to be honest. I will continue to observe it to see if it grows or if it disappears or just to waist time because spiders are interesting like I said before.

2 comments:

  1. Spider webs are a bit miraculous (we think we are great engineers). I've heard daddy long legs are actually very poisonous but they can't bite so we're safe. I have no idea if that's true.

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  2. I hate spiders. They creep me out to the fullest. Spiders usually don't do much unless they're mating or feeding.

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