We've run into several versions of this little fellow. Yes, that IS a spider. And YES, his body IS the size of a Quarter...and YES, I'm quite sure he could eat one of my children if they were to get stuck in his web. That is a cricket he is feasting on in the picture.
We watched this little brother take down a cicada twice his size one evening while we ate supper. Talk about a redneck dinner theater! It was like watching wild kingdom live. The only thing more entertaining was watching Aaron try to kill him without getting attacked. I looked him up on the internet and he is a Yellow Spotted Orb Weaver Spider and relatively harmless (meaning you won't necessarily die if he bites you)
More to come...the locusts are out...as soon as we catch one i'll post a picture...they look like something right out of star wars. Kind of gives a whole new meaning to that old music video by The Cure.
3 comments:
EW ew ew ew ewwwwwwwwwww....nasty. i could never live there...and when i come to vist i am bringing a bubble to sleep in...because i know that fact about 'eating 11 spiders in your sleep during an average lifetime' or something like that...no thanks!
This is EXACTLY the kind of spider I had a nightmare about when I came up with the lyrics, "the spider-man is having you for dinner tonight". Wicked stuff. Don't wear red lipstick and black eyeliner to bed tonight.
my skin is crawling. h
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