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I have my students doing an assignment on the Soil/food web and each one is given the roll of an insect, microorganism, etc and they have to blog about life in my garden and compost pile. One of them chose a wolf spider. I am definitely going to share this video with him.
I did a post about a wolf spider not long after I started this blog. (didn't check to see if I had taken them out,but the links were to an MSN photo group I belonged to) I'm not sure if it's technically a wolf spider, but it's awfully close. I've always had quite a few of them on my property and in the house. ("quite a few" is seeing one too often for my liking). I've read they're fairly poisonous, but none of the ones I've seen have been particularly aggressive.
Creeped half of my class out when Paul, the student who chose wolf spider put that video clip on the class blog.
Creeped me out too. I don't like snakes, but that's from fear. Spiders make my skin crawl, but I don't kill them unless they're in the house. I've even caught a few spiders and put them out.
About 20 yrs. ago I planted some tomato plants in the spot where I used to have a rabbit pen and they did very well. It was up against my garage and the plants got the morning sun and were in light until about four/five in the afternoon and that really seemed to work out well, plus the rich soil.
One day I was checking to see if any of the tomatoes were ripe and saw a big spider w/ a big web at the top of one of the tomato cages. I started to kill it, then decided to live and let live and that I could get any tomatoes out w/out disturbing her...plus I figured she'd eat bad bugs on the plants. I started catching grasshoppers and moths to feed her and it was sort of fun to pitch them into the web and watch her hurry over to spin more silk on them.
Anyway...she got HUGE, her body nearly as big as my palm. I don't know what sort she was, but she had an orange abdomen. I didn't have any plants the next year (neighbors would steal my tomatoes when I was gone, along w/ peaches, cherries, apricots, grapes, etc.)so I don't know what happened to her, never knew what sort of spider she was or how long she would live.
We get Black-and-Yellow Garden Spiders that like to build their webs in the garden (hence the name I would guess). I let them be because, like you, I figure they will nab any bad bugs that come along. Plus, they are quite colorful so they are easy to spot; no spider surprises to freak me out while I'm picking cheery tomatoes.
"Cheery" tomatoes. You have the best typos! My great nice loved those when she was a little girl, called them "meatball tomatoes".
Funny about me feeding that spider; she didn't like black bugs at all, or blister bugs, the green ones. I got the idea from feeding her after seeing a huge pair of moth wings in her web, but nothing else. They'd eventually be gone, don't know if they just degraded or if she cut them away. My old B cat used to love moths, he'd eat every bit but the wings and then would spend an hour cleaning the fuzz off his paws and face. I bet the Beej (this cat) is scared of them, he's scared of most everything else.
I saw that typo after I hit send, lol. Thought it was cute myself but would have edited it if I could.
Our indoor cats go crazy over the moths that come to the lighted windows in summer. They will catch and eat the ones that get into the house too (sans the wings).
I used to feel bad for indoor cats until I lost so many on our road, (3 to be exact) now I'm glad my cats are indoors. People drive these country roads so fast, they forget some of us actually live here.
I saw your post in my inbox, but when I tried to come in here to reply, got a redirect saying the domain had expired. I figured if I just let it lapse, it would go back to the blogspot URL but I was wrong. I got the domain name again, but I'm afraid I just wasted my money, oh well. Anyway....
My last two B cats have been indoor/outdoor cats. This one never ventured too far that I know of...well, after I had him fixed...but the last old B knew I sometimes visited w/ the across the street neighbors and when I'd be gone, he'd go across the street and look through their screen door. He was pretty smart though, and when I'd see him across the street he'd look to see if there was traffic.
Where I grew up out in the country, we were a half mile from the highway,so we didn't worry about our pets getting run over....rattlers, bobcats or coyotes,sure, but not traffic. We did have an oil field worker run over one of our dogs once and I think it was on purpose but dad gave him the benefit of the doubt. After that, I used to point my BB gun at him when he'd pass by the house to the tank battery.
They resurfaced this street a few yrs back and it's really smooth. There's quite a bit of traffic because it's the last through street to a development just to the west and since the potholes were filled in, it makes for a speedway. My neighbor (the across the street one) used to throw rocks at the most egregious speeders and he'd stand there, daring them to come back.
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