Baby Spiders!

“Facebutt” is deluged with videos of silly, cute videos of kitty cats & puppy dogs. So much torment to sit thru, LOL! Well, shit, then, here’s a short video I recorded of sweet little animal babies doing what cute little animal babies do:

Came home late from work last Wednesday on the 24th of May 2017. Wind and rain had blown and poured off and on all day long with random bursts of sunshine pinwheeling down from the skies. Went to dump the kitchen compost into the compost & yard waste canister bin the Seattle of City provides its residents. Light reflected and scintillated from something shimmering atop the lid of the large green can. What was that? Tiny UFOs? ¡LOL! 

As I closed in to inspect this peculiar phenomenon, I quickly realized I was looking at a swarm of freshly hatched baby spiders. I couldn’t identify the species, being hundreds of such babies if not thousands. The oscillating iridescence proved to be sunlight reflecting from shimmering strands of spider webs spun out by these darling little arthropodic arachnids.

I felt a curious awe. Here was Nature having its way as Life indeeds finds a way, to mangle up a couple of quotes. Indeed, Life doesn’t find a way as much as lives. Life lives. Life lives until dead. So I filmed it. 

Then I realized how “tiyuhd” I am of endless silly kitty & wacky puppy videos plastering the web. Yeah, those viddies are cute & funny, but, hey, so are baby spiders! Aye, urban baby spiders, too! Baby spiders in the City! As long as they aren’t scrawling thru my hair or dangling from my hearing aids to race down inside my shirt! So here’s one for any and all of y’all to peek at and enjoy! 

 

William Dudley Bass
Sunday 28 May 2017
Seattle, Washington
Cascadia

NOTE: This first appeared as a post to my Facebook page on Thursday 26 May 2017 and was revised for publication here.

NOTE: None of those spiders were harmed during the filming of this video, and they were left alone afterwards. Well, was a wee bit windy, and I did blow upon them once, a quick and modest puff, to get ’em exercising. I wondered how many survived insects and other predatory bugs and rodents, birds, small reptiles, humans and their garbage trucks, and pathogens. Spiders are amazing little critters. Just don’t show me viddies of giant Aussie spiders sliding thru the crease between a car and its closed boot or dangling from the back of someone’s head of hair or giant Amazonian or Congolese spiders dragging small mammals shrouded in web thru the leaves across the jungle floor. Just don’t put those things on me. 

 

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