Monday, July 17th, 2006 - 9:31 PM

My Nephew’s Spiders

My nephew came over a few days ago to turn up rocks and photograph spiders with me. He rocks.

Here are a couple shots:

striped-spider-underside-hanging

striped-spider-clinging

He was pretty sure that was a black widow (I think because he really likes black widows — he’s caught a few of them). His mom suggested (and I agree) that it is probably some sort of orb weaver.

Here’s another picture of what was underneath a rock:

under-a-rock