Natalie McNair-Huff wrote:
> This is a late comment on this thread, but I love spiders and ants.
Hi Talia
Nice to find yet another spider-lover. I suppose I might like ants too
if I knew them better, but they are rare around my area, and I know of
only of a few tiny colonies in my patch, mostly under the rockery
stones, which I take care not to disturb of I see them in time.
We see some beautiful webs of the orb spiders around the garden In the
Fall..Early this Autumn one spun a perfect one just outside my kitchen
window which lasted quite some time.
Then > there are the long legged spiders that build delicate,
invisible webs
> in the bathroom. It never feels quite right to go in and not say
> hello to her, whichever corner she is in.
We get these too and not only in the bathroom. I sometimes wish though
that they would clear up their old abandoned webs as these seem to get
loaded with dust and become very tatty looking, so I have to so a
clearing round from time to time.
I have read some species do actually eat old webs, so as not to waste
protein and I wish I could teach this lot to recycle too!
Moira
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Tony & Moira Ryan
Wainuiomata, New Zealand. (on the "Ring of Fire" in the SW Pacific).
Lat. 41:16S Long. 174:58E. Climate: Mediterranean/Temperate
