“Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to decieve;” Sir Walter Scott. So is this web tangled, or perhaps just a little slipshod? Is it deceptive or merely messy? The lower half, illuminated by the morning sun, appears to be of a different design than the shaded, upper right quadrant ofContinue reading “Honestly, Spider!”
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Yes, we have no bananas but…
We definitely have Florida banana spiders, or as they are otherwise called, golden silk orb-weavers. This specimen in our back yard was bout three inches across, leg tip to leg tip, had about a three-foot diameter web, and is obviously a female. Like many other species, the male is puny and of little value otherContinue reading “Yes, we have no bananas but…”