You may remember this post, where I showed you a picture of our back garden spider. A few days ago, when I went out to deposit more garbage on the compost heap, I noted that this particular spider and web were absent.
Well, between last night and this afternoon, this appeared in the back garden:
The difference is that instead of spinning her web between a shrub and the back wall, she has spun it between the side sall and the (folded-up) clothesline. It’s a distance of at least ten feet! I think I’ll name her “Shelob”.
I shall caution HWMBO not to go out into the back garden tonight without detouring around the other side of the clothesline.
oh, that’s nice of you not to break into the cobweb.
This is probably too late to ask, but have you cautioned HWMBO already?
I pointed it out to him when he got home and the cobweb is still there. I can’t see Shelob this morning though–perhaps she’s at one or the other ends of it.
You named her after the spider in Lord of the Rings, right? Thank goodness this spider is nothing like that one.