Arachtober 8

Today's spider for Arachtober is the greedy fruit fly chef I wrote about a month ago.

6 fruit flies in one meatball.

#Arachtober

Mine! Mine! Mine!

I'm still sorting photos. I keep running across files that I had put aside for later, and then forgotten. I've started a list to be processed and posted; some are from as far back as 2009.

I found this tiny spider on a rock this afternoon, in a photo series from 2012:

"Hey! Who are you? And no, you can't have any of my lunch! Scram!"

Did she know she had such a large, threatening shadow? I doubt it, because when I came a bit closer, she dropped her meal and jumped back to assess the situation. I stopped moving, and she came right back to pick up where she left off.

"Better grab it quick or that nasty one-eye will take it. She can go catch her own. I'm not sharing!"

Looks like her meal was another spider, or maybe a small harvestman. She was welcome to it.

Enough for company, but she's not sharing

This is the spider that I blame for me putting my head through another's web.

The extra leg, I think, is one discarded by her lunch in the fruitless struggle to escape.

That's a big meal! She'll have leftovers for the next day.

Tomorrow, weather permitting, we're heading to the beach for one of the last lowish afternoon tides this year.