There's a smaller one living in my mailbox, which just had a bunch of baby spiders. But it doesn't come out to be photographed. I occasionally see some of its legs through the grate, and lots of yellow web.
25 August 2007
Spider
This adult female golden silk spider (Nephila clavipes) was living next to my local dumpster. I thought it was pretty so I took some pictures. It's about three inches long, top feet to bottom feet.
There's a smaller one living in my mailbox, which just had a bunch of baby spiders. But it doesn't come out to be photographed. I occasionally see some of its legs through the grate, and lots of yellow web.
There's a smaller one living in my mailbox, which just had a bunch of baby spiders. But it doesn't come out to be photographed. I occasionally see some of its legs through the grate, and lots of yellow web.
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This is freaky. I didn't know they were real. I've been putting silk spiders into my novels for a while now, they get bred and fed to produce different colors and tamed like silkworms on Piarra... and it does yellow? Way cool. I want a peacock blue one. lol
Beautiful little animal but it just seriously surprised me.
Robert and Ari >^..^<
Yeah, I didn't think it was real either when it was right in front of me. :) It was cool to discover that not all spiders are the dull brown creepy crawly kind found in house corners - which I knew intellectually, but had never experienced first-hand.
Apparently people have tried to make a silk industry out of their web, but it didn't turn out to be workable. The web of this particular species is yellow, but there might be a related species somewhere that does blue. ;)
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