or a cluster, those are the preferred collective nouns for lots of spiders.
Too many spiders is my choice.
Truly, this place is spider central. Every window has a large chunky corner dweller (outside thankfully), every time I pick up a magazine or a piece of paper, tiny ones scuttle in all directions. The bathroom alone seems to host at least five different types. What's going on?
It is thought that lots of spiders around your home is an indication that your living environment is healthy. Hmm. Not sold.
Especially not sold on the huge globe spider that has moved into the window on the back of the house, Shelob. She takes flies back to her pantry tucked under one leg. I'm not joking! I fully expect to come home and find a family member trussed up like Frodo.
The garden is an arachnid cosmos of its own, and I walk around in dilema, do I free the still alive struggling bugs and starve the spider, or leave it be and they work out their own Karma?
And don't be telling me about all the wonderful totemic stuff that spiders have, they have eight eyes to stare at you, how can this be good!
Trouble is that I won't kill them, so for a week now I have been going around making public service announcements warning them that hoses and window cleaning activity are coming and they should move on.
So long as they don't move in!
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