I stepped out of my house and started walking to work, when I noticed a dot moving out of the corner of my eye. There was a tiny spider dangling from my eyebrow! This is a bit surprising, since it’s a bit windy and cool here, but maybe they were desperate for shelter. I walked all the way from my house to the lab with a tiny spider on a silken thread hanging from my hand — I might have looked a bit odd. But I made it all the way and snapped their picture.
Isn’t that an adorable little orb-weaver? Now I’m not sure what to do with them — the outside is a bit inhospitable. I might have to adopt them and raise them in the lab.
You’re a spider magnet, PZ.
“When I notice a dot moving out of the corner of my eye” it’s an eye floater these days.
It sounds like a good beginning to a children’s book.
Aaaaaawww.
With some patience, you could’ve had yourself an eyepatch!
I think it adopted you. I also think if people recognize it’s P.Z. Myers walking by, then they won’t assume any odd behavior to be out of the ordinary.
Sounds like the people I know who keep finding stray cats on their doorstep — that they end up keeping. I haven’t seen a stray cat in my yard in decades, yet others will find and accumulate two or three strays in less than a year. 🤷♂️
They have way too many cats now…
ADS arachnid distribution system
I had a cat adopt me and follow me home one time. Then run away some years later.