Thursday, September 22, 2005

spider mom

spider & egg sac
when cleaning out my classroom before school began, i found this nice little surprise in the room divider between my room and the bio-kim’s classroom…

a spider mom and her egg-sac she was so lovingly guarding!

but, for the safety of my students (and my sanity!), i made the guys take the egg sac outside and destroy it.  i know, i know, i’m mean, i kill parts of nature… but hey, y’know, spiders are poisonous in these here parts, and i don’t wanna risk it!  it turned out to be a black widow, by the way, according to the guys, since i wouldn’t go close to that thing…

i never thought i’d be a wimp about stuff like this, but it turns out i am.  KILL ALL SPIDERS!  hey, when you live amongst black widows and brown recluse spiders (yup, our old house had it’s fair share of both types...), you start getting a little defensive and a little less protective of nature.

Posted by kgrp on 09/22 at 06:20 PM
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