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News from Ed and Alisha Hewett
| Posted by ed on 29 Jul 2010
I've been watching a pair of Argiope aurantias (garden spiders or banana spiders for those non-scientists out there) through my window the past couple weeks. They are both growing quickly--the one in the photo is at least three inches long from the tip of the front legs to the tip of the back legs (no I didn't actually measure).
Today for a quick break, I ran out and took a couple pictures with Alisha's portrait lens.
I'm sure many of you will disagree with me about whether spiders are the sort of thing that deserve a portrait. However, after looking at the photos, I learned something new about garden spiders. If you look at the top of the picture, you will see a bit of silk running out from the spider's abdomen and back to the web.
Apparently, garden spiders use a safety line even when they are running around on their webs! You'll also notice the insect she's eating has two threads running back to the web.
I'll let you puzzle out the spiritual meaning in that
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