I saw this and had to stick my head in a grungy, stinky box to take this photo.
See it? There was a mama Parasteatoda tending her egg sac. Right there in the middle! You can’t miss it.
I scooped it up, and will be taking it into the lab. Maybe this is easier to see?
The spiders are laying eggs all over the place and tucking their sacs into odd corners all around the yard and the house. It’s like an easter egg hunt!
Move over Easter bunny. Can’t wait for the annual White House spider egg hunt.
My https://feedle.world feeds turned up this nice bit today:
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-are-the-spiders-of-this-house
WE ARE THE SPIDERS OF THIS HOUSE
SHOUTING OUR MANIFESTO
AS BEST WE CAN WITHOUT VOCAL CORDS
BUT ONLY YOUR CATS CAN HEAR US
THEY ARE LAZY, OVERFED
WE LAUGH IN THEIR WHISKERED FACES
and a fair bit more.
On my house there is an old storm window that has a gap in it that allows insects to come in but not get out, they become trapped between the storm window and the inner window, there are a quite a few well-fed Parasteatoda in there that have been making a lot of egg sacs in the last couple weeks.
Yeah, but spdier eggs even mock ones wouldn’t provide enough chocolate – need an awful lot of them.
Spider caviar, StevoR.
Rather expensive stuff, after all, it takes quite a few egg-sacks’ worth to make a mouthful.
Mmm.
.. Something fishy about that, John! ;-)