Isn't she pretty? She makes me think of creamy coffee. Hungry creamy coffee.
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| Cellar spider, with meal. |
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| Zooming in, to see the prey. |
It looks like her supper is another spider, one of the big spiders that work keeping the earwigs and sow bugs at bay.
These spiders, for all their apparent fragility, are highly efficient predators. There's been a good crop of them this year, and the cross spiders, the jumpers, the wolf spiders, the various Steatodas*, and those big Tegenaria house spiders have all disappeared from around the house, inside and out. I know where one cross spider has her web, and there is (or was; maybe this was it!) a house spider behind a cabinet, but I haven't seen a jumper or a Steatoda for quite a while. But the cellar spiders are getting big and fat and making eggs.
*Both Steatodas and Tegenarias end up being called house spiders. Confusing!
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Una araña fólcida (patilargas) con su taquito. Que es otra araña, una de las grandes cazadores.
Estas arañas parecen tan frágiles, tan delicadas, pero son depredadoras muy eficientes. Este año han salido muchas, y las arañas de la cruz,"diadematus", las saltadoras, las arañas "lobo", las Steatodas, y esas grandes Tegenarias (como la del taco) han casi desaparecido de la casa y los alrededores. Sé donde hay una telaraña de una araña de la cruz, y hay una araña de casa (o hubo: tal vez fue la del taco) atrás de un gabinete, pero no he visto ni una saltadora ni una Steatoda por mucho tiempo. Pero los fólcidos, las arañas patilargas, se están haciendo grandes y gordas y están poniendo muchos huevos.
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