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Last month I went out one morning to walk the dogs. Usually I cut across our front yard to get to the road, but fortunately this morning I was paying attention to my surroundings. Do you see what I saw?

Yep. Spider web. It may seem small, but the anchoring threads stretched out for ten feet from top to bottom.

I did not get close enough to get a decent shot of the spider, but from the spikes around its body I'll guess it was a crab spider. They are venomous, but their tiny bite is pretty harmless (like a bee sting.)

You can see how tiny it is here in the cropped version of the previous pic. It's a little smaller than the diameter of a pencil eraser. I did not mess with it. All spiders are enormously helpful in controlling the local pest population. I am going to keep an eye out every morning when I walk the dogs, though. :)

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