I came home this afternoon to find swarms of dispersing spiderlings — the trees and shrubs were dotted with these tiny little guys on skeins of silk trying to spread out and find new homes.
It’s October, you dopes. It’s getting cold (although this week we’re having a surge of warmer weather), it’ll snow sometime in the near future, unless you’re looking for a safe place to hunker down and overwinter, this doesn’t seem like a smart strategy to me.
Look, even the background colors on my photos are screaming “AUTUMN!”
Hm.
Something to do with ‘r/K selection theory”?
One last hurrah before Jack Frost comes knocking?
To boldly sail on strands of silk /
and to hell with Jack and his ilk.
Maybe the spiders know something we don’t, like…winter will be delayed until further notice.