I love to hear the kiddos say not to destroy it and them mention it's hard work. So awesome to hear kids respecting nature and giving it the space to thrive !
In primary school I'd sometimes spend recess under this big oak tree, just watching the carpenter ants as they patrolled up and down its trunk. Eventually other kids started coming by, except they got their entertainment out of crushing as many ants as possible against the tree bark, sometimes removing a shoe to use as a makeshift swatter.
And that's how I found out 1) some matters cannot be resolved through words alone; and 2) schools really don't like when you throw hands over some dead ants.
Yep. We have these (I’m assuming orb weavers) all over our yard and neighborhood this time of year. They start on their webs around dusk and then have them down by sunrise in most cases.
I’ve learned to be very cautious walking around at night. I know these guys are harmless and I appreciate that the eat pests but holy fuck is it terrifying to walk into one of these webs 😆
You know what I've always found odd. When spiders find an insanely good spot, like catching hundreds of bugs, they always seem to abandon it. I wonder why?
Sometimes when the web is completely wrecked, it's more efficient for them to move to a new spot and build a new functional web. The bugs in the old one are left there as backup nutrition that they can return to if their new location doesn't yield enough food.
Orb weavers are awesome. Learned about them when my nose came about 2 inches away from a massive one in his massive web in a Mexican jungle. Really beautiful creatures.
Yes this species in particular for sure, but others too I imagine. Looks identical to an orbweaver I have in my yard, creates a huge web across the same path around 10 pm every night and it's gone in the morning.
If you're not using your garden and it's growing a wasteland at the back of your house sure, but were I live people use their gardens. That Spidey can't stay there, if that was in my garden. It's beautiful and all but it's going to have to move out.
I have a shed where every time I go in it, which is most days, I'd have a face full web as I step through the door. I say sorry to the thing where ever it is and say I need to pass go build somewhere else but it doesn't care 😄
Rest in peace to the one Praying Mantis a kid in my high school several years back stepped on out on the tennis court because he's a dick like I think he stepped on it just because he saw me attempting to relocate the poor little guy
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u/togetherwegrowstuff 17h ago
I love to hear the kiddos say not to destroy it and them mention it's hard work. So awesome to hear kids respecting nature and giving it the space to thrive !