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Meet Our Brown Widow!

The inside of our garage door has been home to a brown widow spider and her various egg sacs for at least a year now. Most of the time when…

Empty Nest

So she’s all by herself now, the tiny momma spider who tended her egg sac for weeks in the notch above our front door until her multitude of offspring emerged…

A So Most Trivial and Glorious Thing

I read a poem this morning shared by an acquaintance on Facebook. It was written by a woman who explained with regret why she killed a harmless spider that startled…

Mind If I Bug Ya?

…jumping spider (my favorite of all spiders!) that put it on dah glass outside my hotel room 11 stories off the deck for awhile yesterday morning. I opted to bring…

All Creatures Great & Small; Not Some

…the countless centipedes, beetles, and spiders I had the pleasure of meeting and a bit of guilt at disrupting and displacing as they evacuated frantically from my excavations and exertions….

Arachnicide

So. Sadness: my tiny doorway spider is dead. I’ve written about her far more than I’d imagined I would. I first found her in April and marveled as she produced…

One Big Family

Yeah this is the second time I’ve posted about this spider and her recently hatched brood, but sometimes the most wonderous and amazing things bear repeating (click to triplify): Making…