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
