Halloween and Spiders
Halloween is here again. Houses are decorated with witches,
pumpkins, ghosts and goblins. And, of course, with spider webs. I coated our
front bushes with white webs and put up wire webs on the garage doors. It’s fun
to decorate for the holiday.
But Mother Nature outdid all the webs in the neighborhood. A
spider worked its way down from the roof of our garage and spun a magnificent
web that made my attempts laughable. It anchored the bottom of the web on a
bush and then sat in the middle waiting around for a meal to be caught.
Spider webs are well constructed. The spider has a plan. It
mixes non-sticky threads with sticky ones in a symmetrical design. And it does
it fairly quickly for such complexity. A spider might be small but don’t
diminish its capabilities: it has spider smarts.
The more I observe nature, the more I realize that
everything has intelligence. Plants do. Insects do. Animals and birds are
pretty darn smart. It may differ from how we think but it is functional for how
to survive. If we diminish anything in nature we lessen our own understanding
of life.
So on this spooky holiday, when we say WOOOOO, let’s
remember it is more than being scary, it is being observant.
A look at web-making:
Get to know spiders:
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