Arachnophobia anyone?

[pitbulllady]

Originally Posted by TrickyDisco

Ooo creepy crawlies!

Now I love the spiders, people think I'm nuts when I see one and gently take it outside...everybody else usually freaks out!
We even have a bunch of various spideys all over my parents house and they cannot imagine getting rid of them.
Last summer we had quite a few, with some newcomers fighting the regulars over the best spots by the house. I of course got pics of one of the "fights" which were sometimes brutal!

The defending spider (the brown one) started getting attacked by that red one, and both they and the web dissapeared. We were getting worried but then the brown one returned a couple of days later and just spun a new web in like, minutes.

I have more pics of that "fight" here if you want to take a look. Photographing Spiders is fun!

Uhm, actually, what you photographed there wasn't WAR, but LOVE...well, the spider version of love anyway! That smaller reddish-colored spider is a male Common Orb Weaver(Araneus diadematus), and that big fat brown one is the female! They were MATING, not fighting! Of course, she most likely did wind up eating him after he'd accomplished what he'd set out to do, which is why she returned, and he was a no-show!

pitbulllady