I don't want this to become a Bug Blog. But WTF with this spider that was outside my door? It is creepy as hell. Can anyone help me identify it? I'll try to get another pic that demonstrates its size, its a big one.
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This little gal is a Gasteracantha cancriformis which is also known as a Spiny Orb Weaver. What would you ever do without me?
Design
By Robert Frost
I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On the white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth-
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches broth-
A snow-drop spider, a flower like froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.
What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to apall?—
If design govern in a thing so small.
An incredible poem. Thanks for sharing.
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