Spiders are all around us
The other day I was staring at some bushes and saw this crazy looking spider. All aggressive strutting, shiny and black with tribal markings.
Then I saw on another branch this other spider curled up in a leaf with a thin layer of web over him. Smaller, completely white, with a big bulbous butt and both pairs of front legs pressed tightly together and extended straight out away from its body.
I needled him gently with a leaf stem and made him do that thing where they piss a string of web and jump, hanging from it. I carried him by this string and put him on the branch with the black spider to see what would happen.
The moment the black spider saw the white one it leapt several inches across the branch and landed on it, wrapping it up tightly in its legs and carried it away, draining its life fluids.
While this was happening I noticed observing the action a third spider, also all white, a different and much larger species than the other two. He was hanging out on a leaf and seemed aware of what was going on between the other two but didn't get close to investigate. I tried to prod him over to the black one to see what would happen but he panicked and just jumped to the ground.
Spiders are great