Itsy bitsy spider...

[mnhtnbb]

Damn it! This guy has just spun a web outside my window. I just had all the windows in the house washed. This window is next to the daybed that functions as a window seat space in my study. I read there, watch TV there, nap there, sleep there. And there is no way--on cooler nights--I will now open the window and give this guy a chance to slither through the screen and come in to the house.

[AJT]

1. Ahhhhhhhhhh! Evil.....

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Well, you just KNOW he did it on purpose!

Sorry, couldn't resist!

Beautiful photo.

[Solly Mack]

3. Leave her be. She only wants to reproduce. She'll be gone soon enough.

[mnhtnbb]

7. LOL. Solly, I knew you'd like her. I just don't want her climbing on me

while I'm sleeping because she slithered through the screen!



We are due for some thunderstorms. I'm hoping she will be washed away.

[Solly Mack]

8. She'd come back after a storm.

They tend to tear their webs down daily and rebuild. That type of spider does anyway.

She knows how to ride out a storm.

You are never more than 6 feet away from a spider at any given time - even while sleeping.

Sweet dreams.

[mnhtnbb]

10. Really.

I probably won't open that window for a very long time.

[Solly Mack]

11. I'm just messing you. :)

My BiL has arachnophobia. We make sure all the house spiders are in hiding when he comes. Meaning we look for any and remove them outside if we find them..

Because spiders get in even when you don't want them to get inside.

[mnhtnbb]

12. I'm just messing with you!

Did I ever tell you the story about catching a tarantula and leaving it in a coffee can for my mother once when I was in high school?
That was before I knew they jumped.

[RKP5637]

4. You're being bugged!

lol!

[Kali]

5. in no time, she'll be too big to come through the screen

but her hatchlings...

[applegrove]

6. Love spiders. At least the ones in Canada that are not huge. Except for dock spiders.

Those are too big.

[politicat]

9. She can't make it through the screen.

And she's eating her weight in skeeters and fruit-flies every day or so.

Think of her like a tiny tricoteuse, spinning and knitting her web while presiding over the execution of the blood-suckers.