Nursery Web Spider and Babies
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Nursery Web Spider and Babies
This Nursery Web Spider (pisaurina mira) has been living in my magnolia tree, keeping careful guard over her eggs in the little tent she’d formed from some leaves. Yesterday afternoon, as I walked around the tree, she kept shifting her position to make sure she was facing me. I’ve read that these spiders are not normally aggressive but I didn’t want to mess with her, so I waited until DH got home so he could photograph her. By then, her babies had hatched…
Nursery Web Spider and Babies
Nursery Web Spider and Babies
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2 comments:
Eewww! Then where do all these spiders go? How fascinating to watch as long as it isn't in my house.
Cindratee
What? You don't think they're cute?
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