[MR] Tapestry woven with spider silk

[Laurie Clarkston]

If you look closely at the picture of the large orb spider, you will notice that we have orb spiders here in Atlantia.  These lovely creatures are out and about now.  

Late summer, early fall is when the orb spiders shows up to make their huge spider webs.  You can't miss them, because they are larger than the spiders we normally see.

Every year I have one if not two make a web by my front door.  One year, they overlapped my front door and I had to gently move the web so I could go in and out of my door.

Cairistiona




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From: Steven Chang <moondragn at gmail.com>
To: Melanie Weymark <caterinestloe at yahoo.com>
Cc: Merry Rose <Atlantia at atlantia.sca.org>
Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 11:05:01 AM
Subject: Re: [MR] Tapestry woven with spider silk

Ahh thanks. Its amazing how some species evolved. It says they are
totally blind. I wonder if this is one of Arachne's original
decendents heh heh.


On 9/28/09, Melanie Weymark <caterinestloe at yahoo.com> wrote:
> A quick look around says they are in fact not
>
> http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/Invertebrates/Facts/insects/goldenorbspiders.cfm
>
> Cat
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