The golden orb spiders are FRIENDS...they catch grasshoppers in their webs
and eat them...grasshoppers in Texas are a huge problem. We even have
these little black and white fuzzy spiders that don't seem to make webs, but
live on every available door knob and those guys can catch a grasshopper as it's
flying by...NO LIE...I had been killing these until I watched that lovely
display! What I couldn't learn to live with (and have some pretty funny
pictures of my sister killing!) is the geckos...the almost translucent ones...I
know, they eat bugs, too, but geez Louise they lived IN my house in Hawaii and
you couldn't get them out. Friends ended up giving me a gold Gecko charm
for eventually learning to watch the eggs hatch, LOL.
>That's it. Even talking about spiders and bugs makes
me shakey. >Now I know why I still live in California. Only
earthquakes, >rattlesnakes and now mountain lions.
Hate to tell
you, but we have the golden orb weavers here too -- along with the wolf
spiders (http://www.lam.mus.ca.us/spiders/gallery.htm)
-- all big suckers that build webs across trail. (And all through my
garden).
Lynn Kinsky, Santa Ynez, CA http://www.silcom.com/~lkinsky/ ============================================================ At
the end of the day maybe the definition of endurance isn't the length
of the ride but rather the spirit in which it is ridden. ~
Maryanne Stroud Gabani
