October 22, 2008

Just a few more spiders....

Some brown widow spiders at the arboretum this week.





This one, living under the Pavillion roof, seemed to have had
a very productive life, by the look of all those egg sacs.
Or should I say reproductive?




I came upon a family of green lynx spiderlings, all proudly
showing off their discarded exoskeletons. The momma was
nowhere in sight.



At this size, they're not even hideous. They're cute. I wonder,
though, why nature makes them hatch in the fall, when they
must spend their childhood living through a season of cold,
wet weather and much fewer bugs than they would find in the
rest of the year.