| OccultHawk |
10-02-2018 02:39 PM |
A banana spider I’d been keeping an eye on all summer has finally died. She had a great location between two structures in an alley but out of the way of any possible human foot traffic. Usually she was just sitting there but sometimes she was working on her web or wrapping up a fly or some other snack. She laid some eggs and at one point had around a half dozen spiderlings crawling around with her. I read on wiki that the siblings cannibalize each other. I would have loved to seen it but sure enough there’s only one left. Anyway, I noticed that mama was holding on at an awkward angle and thought well she looks like she’s about to give up the ghost. A couple days of that and now she’s gone. I figure a lot of her biomass came out of my paycheck since the flies she ate probably fed on my dog’s feces.
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