Posts Tagged: Save-a-Spider Day

How Many Spiders Have You Saved Today?

Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet Eating her curds eating and whey Along came a spider who sat down beside herAnd frightened Miss Muffet away (English nursery rhyme recorded in 1805) What, Miss Muffet ran away? Obviously, she had no...

A jumping spider on a yellow rose peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A jumping spider on a yellow rose peers at the photographer. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A banded garden spider (Argiope trifasciata) straddling lavender stems. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A banded garden spider (Argiope trifasciata) straddling lavender stems. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A redfemured spotted orbweaver, Neoscona domiciliorum, is hungry. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A redfemured spotted orbweaver, Neoscona domiciliorum, is hungry. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A black widow spider balances her egg sacs. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A black widow spider balances her egg sacs. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Lunch time! A crab spider feasts on a pest, a lygus bug. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Lunch time! A crab spider feasts on a pest, a lygus bug. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A bold jumping spider trying to grab a honey bee. The honey bee did not need saving. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A bold jumping spider trying to grab a honey bee. The honey bee did not need saving. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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