All around my back yard, flower beds, and garden, I am finding spiders at work building webs, hoping to snare some unsuspecting insect. As summer draws to a close, fall sneaks in quietly, with shorter days and welcomed cooler temperatures. Spiders will use their catch for nourishment to help then create an egg sacs that will survive fall and winter, hatching in the spring as warm days return again. The cycle of life continues.
Spiders keep spinning
Autumn’s internal clock ticks
Bugs feed urgency
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Photo: Dwight L. Roth
Written for Frank Tassone’s Saturday Haikai challenge. Our writing needed to reflect the message that autumn is near.
A friend told me an old farmer told her, based on the number of spider webs we see, it can predict the kind of winter we will have. The more you see, the more snow!! I hope he’s wrong! That’s an incredible web she’s spun 🙂
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Thanks Dorinda. If that is the case we will have a lot of snow this winter. This was a fabulous web.
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Here, too. I am not looking forward to that at all!!! Some of the webs I’ve seen have been amazing. I’m still trying to figure out how they get from one place clear across to the other, in mid air!
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They are amazing creatures! I think they catch the wind and float on the breeze like Tarzan!
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That’s what my husband told me when I asked how they do it. Imagine the feeling, knowing when you get to the other side, you’ve accomplished something!
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Mmm! The next web I see I’m putting something behind it so it will come out in the darn picture😊 love you haibun Dwight.
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Thank you. It does help to have a wall in the background!
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#Haiku Happenings #2: Dwight’s latest #haibun for my current #haikai challenge!
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I found your spider prose very interesting, capped off with a dynamic haiku! Autumn does seem to be sneaking in.
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Thank you Janice. I appreciate your kind words!
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Great observation of the spider’s work. More spiders here this year, snow….ah! can’t say no to it, it will come anyway. I enjoyed your post, Dwight.
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Thank you so much for reading my posts! What will be will be!
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I see that urgency with the fourth generation Monarchs… I’m attempting to save some –
I find the Monarch migration amazing. I hadn’t seen many Monarchs for most of the summer and then just this month about a dozen.
The ‘cats’ I’ve got in a tank range in size from the lower part of the i – the egg they crawled out about 1/3rd the size of a lower case letter o – to the 3rd or forth instar stage in which the cat is maybe a half inch to 3/4th’s inch long.
(I saw you wrote about Crickets… I’m going to look at that post now…)
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It seems that we don’t see butterflies much at all until mid to late summer. We have had a few yellow swallowtails and a couple of black and blue wallowtails, but not very many.
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