It offered a lot more resistance than I had expected so I gave it a harder tug. As the leaf opened I was greeted with the horror pictured below.
I bout nearly had to change my britches. I jumped back about 20 ft and after my racing heart slowed down its machine gun patter I slowly approached the plant again. Very slowly.
Still there. Better call in back up. Or go in for a while and recover from that nasty shock. It has an eggsack...ICK!
Later on when my husband and daughter were outside I called them over to witness the monster living on the eggplant leaf. My daughter squatted down beside me and as she was looking at the spider part of a tall onion brushed up against her elbow. She bout came out of her skin. I, of course, fell about howling. It is always so funny when that happens to someone else.
I decided to send her in for the camera so I could get a picture. We decided that the spider should be rearranged for a better photo op. Bell suggested we poke it with a stick. I said, "OK." She picks up a piece of pine straw and says, "Here Mom." I said, "Shiiiiiiiittt........Kid, you are gonna need a much bigger stick than that...hell go get me the chainsaw."
We were both too scared to prod the massive monster too much. Those creatures can move much faster than the eye can see....or at least much faster than my considerable ass can move away from it. We had to be content with a partial monster shot.
And, why are we so scared of spiders? How can something so small make a grown person act like a complete fool? I mean, I outweigh this one by .....god knows how much. Could easily squish it, or drop something on it or spray it with a chemical....but the first thing I want to do when I see one is get the hell away from it FAST! In fact, I am much more likely to perish from a broken neck trying to get away from a spider than from an actual spider bite. That makes them doubly dangerous.
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