Mary keeps finding spiders for me, and she brought me this lovely Parasteatoda this afternoon. She was remarkably active and was just skittering around in the vial, and she was so plump and pretty and vivacious that I had to give her a bigger cage of her own in the lab, and within seconds of being placed on the frame she was building a big new web — you can see a bit of it stretched between her toes.
I named her Shae. The colony is getting quite large now.
The spider was remarkably active, not Mary, although she is also pretty and vivacious. I also don’t keep Mary in a cage.
“I also don’t keep Mary in a cage.”
Of course you don’t. What do people think you are, a Republican?
I was a bit confused there.
Will she (the 8-legged one) be played by Ursulaa Aandress in the inevitable movie?