micro spiders

I saw a dark spot on the siding just under the window sill, and at first, thought nothing of it.  Then I leaned over, took a good look and saw that it was hundreds, maybe thousands of newborn spiders.  What variety is anyone’s guess, unless you know a good neonatarachnologist.  But there were a lot of them.

I blew a soft puff of air at the cluster and amazing things happened.  Immediately some of the little dudes threw out some silk and started to float away on the breeze.  I had heard of ballooning before but never saw it en masse like this.

At the end of Charlotte’s Web, all the babies launch themselves into the unknown on their silk balloons, except for three.  I’m hoping that Joy, Aranea and Nellie stick around.

Respectfully submitted,

Canoelover