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(153,212 posts)I know the poor little devil worked his ass off.
Nevilledog
(51,212 posts)Skittles
(153,212 posts)his web was taking up half a sidewalk
Hekate
(90,848 posts)Every morning Id take a broom handle and remove the web & try to relocate the spider, but she persisted. That was some prime real estate, I think.
One evening my brother came by and I saw him on the porch jumping up and down and waving his arms and it was clear the spider had finally ensnared the biggest trophy of her entire life! I apologized to him but damn
billh58
(6,635 posts)https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/beneficial/g_cancriformis.htm
Chainfire
(17,659 posts)They are quite common in N. Florida.
Piasladic
(1,160 posts)everywhere, obnoxious, and impossible to train.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)I had a covered porch.
On the open side,the side without the tree branches touching the side threshold an orb spider lived there. It was a resident for awhile than one of her offspring would make webs there.
It was beautiful to see it decorated with dew and the sunshine making those dewdrops shine like little glittery crytsals.
The spider was rather large and it would sit smack dab in the middle of the web.
She never invaded the porch area with her web,she kept it to the side threshold.
I loved those spiders.
Sometimes when a bug got into the house I would catch it and throw it into her web. She'd maneuver to it and eat it.
Never had a mosquito on the porch or any other bug for that matter.
This is what she/ they looked like. However my spider resident was significantly bigger than this photo.
Chainfire
(17,659 posts)A spider spinning her web on my front porch. The critter acted like she was on coke, running around in the circle, tying off to all of the radials. I was surprised about how fast the process was. She was moving so fast that I could not follow the tying process. I wasn't there from the beginning, but I estimate it must have taken about an hour start to finish for a tightly knit web about 30" in diameter.
Nature provides some interesting view if you have time to sit for a minute and watch.