ARE SPIDERS PEOPLE TOO?
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Tags: creative blogs nat geo beady eyes whimsical nature post
Tags: creative blogs nat geo beady eyes whimsical nature post
ARE SPIDERS PEOPLE TOO?
He has been around for the past ten days precisely.Small,beady eyed, of a patchy brown and grey hue;a little skittish in disposition and given to weaving his web right above my writing table.Luckily for him,we met just after I'd finished watching Nat Geo or he would have been flicked away or squashed to oblivion.Anyway, I decided to let him be!
He is a rather curious chap,spends most of his day lurking on one of the ends of his web;ignoring any unfortunate fly that might blunder into his trap,but come evening,and he is transformed into a veritable tiger.Prawling across the web,repairing any damages,actual or imagined,periodically spinning down on a single gossamer strand to study me with a glint in his beady eyes- that seem to suggest ..
" umm ,what a lovely dino sized snack this one would make!!
He is also a pretty good predator! Yesterday, I watched a mosquito bloated up most likely on my blood , blunder into his web. He was upon him in a flash;wrestling and subduing him in no time at all !!
His little jaws worked furiously and in less than 30 seconds he had him wrapped up in a silver cocoon ,and with great agility hauled him up to a corner,to hang.This corner ,I presume is his larder!
Skittering back to the centre of his web,he meditatively flicked his forearms(??) and then conducted a few sundry repairs to the web. After a while, he shimmied down on his self made elevator to my eye level.. doing nothing in particular..just gazing at me. perhaps he wanted me to comment or congratulate him for his skills as a hunter? Well, I told him that was great and with that he boarded his silken lift and was up and away!!
I wonder whether spiders study us in the same way as we do them? I wonder whether they have a Spidey TV with a Spidey version of Nat Geo? Is it posssible that in their parallel universe they have their version of the internet? After all ,the World Wide Web owes it's name to them!!
AND if they do!! Then .. do they spidey blog about us? Perhaps a post titled "ARE PEOPLE SPIDERS TOO?" on SPIDEYLEKHA.COM !!
He has been around for the past ten days precisely.Small,beady eyed, of a patchy brown and grey hue;a little skittish in disposition and given to weaving his web right above my writing table.Luckily for him,we met just after I'd finished watching Nat Geo or he would have been flicked away or squashed to oblivion.Anyway, I decided to let him be!
He is a rather curious chap,spends most of his day lurking on one of the ends of his web;ignoring any unfortunate fly that might blunder into his trap,but come evening,and he is transformed into a veritable tiger.Prawling across the web,repairing any damages,actual or imagined,periodically spinning down on a single gossamer strand to study me with a glint in his beady eyes- that seem to suggest ..
" umm ,what a lovely dino sized snack this one would make!!
He is also a pretty good predator! Yesterday, I watched a mosquito bloated up most likely on my blood , blunder into his web. He was upon him in a flash;wrestling and subduing him in no time at all !!
His little jaws worked furiously and in less than 30 seconds he had him wrapped up in a silver cocoon ,and with great agility hauled him up to a corner,to hang.This corner ,I presume is his larder!
Skittering back to the centre of his web,he meditatively flicked his forearms(??) and then conducted a few sundry repairs to the web. After a while, he shimmied down on his self made elevator to my eye level.. doing nothing in particular..just gazing at me. perhaps he wanted me to comment or congratulate him for his skills as a hunter? Well, I told him that was great and with that he boarded his silken lift and was up and away!!
I wonder whether spiders study us in the same way as we do them? I wonder whether they have a Spidey TV with a Spidey version of Nat Geo? Is it posssible that in their parallel universe they have their version of the internet? After all ,the World Wide Web owes it's name to them!!
AND if they do!! Then .. do they spidey blog about us? Perhaps a post titled "ARE PEOPLE SPIDERS TOO?" on SPIDEYLEKHA.COM !!
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