Charlotte’s Web?

This amazing spider built this beautiful web in our yard, and when my darlin turned on the sprinkler, to water the lawn, it stopped the sprinkler from turning.

Now that’s a web.

I’ve always loved the show Charlotte’s Web. Charlotte saves the day, and the pig. In the movie everyone makes a big deal about the pig, when Charlotte is the one that is amazing. I love seeing a spider web…outside. If it is inside, not so much. They are builders and artists.

We have had two pet Black Widows at our home, at two different times. When all of our children were quite young, we found a Black Widow in the back yard and decided to observe her for a while. She lived at our home for long enough for us to see her attack and wrap up all kinds of insects. One time my darlin got the idea to put a wasp in the container that “Charlotte” (yes, her name was Charlotte) was kept in. It was quite a sight to see her crawl over fast and bite, or string, or whatever they do, to the wasp, then crawl back. She did this several times until the wasp was sedated, then she went over to it and wrapped it up. We all just looked at each other and said, “WOW!” After we had her for as long as we wanted to, we called the local nature center and asked them if they wanted her.

We were happy to find out that they did.

So we took Charlotte to her new home, feeling glad to have had the experience and happy others could enjoy her too.

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