Lesia, the boys believed this one about humans swallowing spiders, too, but it isn’t true! See here.

Addiction, it helps to have a camera with the “anti-shake” feature! If you’re trembling, you’re less likely to blur the shot!

Welshcakes, thanks for worrying about me!

Jaye and Teri, bwa ha! “Spider Promiscuity, A Field Study, by Jaye Wells and Teri Gray Franta.”

Wander, you are right. We’ve got “Sucker” plastered on all of our foreheads.

Sandy, I got excited about it, too! I think watching Mrs. Argiope eat her web and respin it is better than TV! I don’t know why—I just do. We are psycho, are we not?

Heh! April thinks we’re psycho!

Robin, exactly. I try to be aracho-tolerant around my boys, so I won’t look like a wimp!

Steve, a man can save his woman from spiders in the house! (And take out the trash without being asked.) That’s what a man can do, and we love the men who do it, too, although perhaps not as much as Katrina the Courier Molester.

Cyn, you’re right. And also they might even eat each other. But it is a lot of kids all at once.

Dennie, trust me: you gain a TON of points by being braver than the boys. Picking up a spider and taking it outside while telling a boy child, “Hush now, it’s more scared of you than you are of it” somehow reduces the Mom Dork Factor.

Zingtrial, climb down off that chair and have a “cuppa” with me and we’ll watch this spider from a safe distance!

I don’t know, Squirrel, if it came to rabid squirrel exes vs. a spider, I’d root for the spider every time! I think Mrs. Argiope is a better mom than a certain rabid squirrel ex you know, don’t you? Heh!

Vaguely Urban, a little too fertile for my comfort level, but I think HOPE it’ll be okay.