This spectacular web has been appearing daily in our yard. It goes right across our front door, so we have been knocking it down because it freaks the kids out a bit. I have a policy of not killing spiders that can't kill me. The spider is a garden orb spider, about 2 inches in size, and harmless.
The web building technique is amazing as I have read here. In our spider's case, the top 'bridging thread' spans from our gutter, across our little access road, up a very high retaining wall andto the top of a lamp post on the nearby main road. It is unbelievably high and so strong!
5 comments:
What an incredibly cool web.
WOW that is awesome Emma, great photo!
Very cool...but also ick at the same time as I really hate spiders!!
Yowza! Very cool! We don't get many webs like that here, but my parents' yard down South is full of them - you always need to watch where you are walking or you might run right into a huge web.
Wow - that is spectacular - I love spiders
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