Spider Smörgåsbord

Posted on Sep 15, 2007 in Misc. | 0 comments

My wife and were walking around Greenlake after dinner. We stopped at the restrooms near the bleachers on the southwest side of the lake, and while she was inside I noticed some spiderwebs. Actually, that’s not strong enough… it was more like a thriving spider metropolis at rush hour. Around each of the lights along the side of the building was a mass of intricate webs weighed down heavily with hundreds or thousands of gnats, mosquitos, moths, and other flying bugs. The spiders could barely keep up!

It was at once both horribly repulsive—especially to an arachnophobe like me—and awesome. To see the frenzy of life and death, of feeding and prey, was amazing. But did also mention gross? I got the shudders taking these camera phone photos, so I hope you appreciate them dear reader, poor as they are.