Tallahassee

After leaving the cool temperatures of the mountains, we spent a few days in Tallahassee getting the townhouse (aka football crash pad) ready to use for football season.

In the crepe myrtle tree that hangs over the driveway, a large spider web had formed. Now this wasn't your usual web. It was a heavy-duty, industrial-strength type of web, and it was yellow! It was positioned in such a way that depending on what direction you were facing, you either saw it or you didn't.

In the middle of the web was a HUGE spider with very long legs that were kind of pointy on the ends (almost looked like claws). It 'hung' upside down and had 2 smaller spiders that scurried all around the web.

We didn't do anything with it as the bug guy was coming in a few days and we wanted to get him to tell us what it was. (We didn't have access to the internet to do any searches.)



Unfortunately the flash on the camera wasn't cooperating and I was not able to get some good pictures of the web and spiders, but I was able to do a short movie! (Update: video to big to post.)



Turns out it was a banana spider (or a golden silk spider). Harmless and good skeeter eaters. So the bug guy moved it to a different tree where it could live happily ever after and we wouldn't run into it. We also learned the big spider was the female and the smaller ones were males.



I couldn't help but think of, " 'Welcome to my parlor', said the spider to the fly."