re: #274 Decatur Deb

A goodly spider helps keep down the Alabama Palmetto Bugs (Eurycotis floridana).

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When I was about 10 years old we had a big ass wolf spider build a web between an oak tree and our shop wall. I could see it from the swimming pool. So I caught the biggest grasshopper I could and threw it into the web. Thought it would tear free and leave but before it could get its legs set that fuckin’ spider raced across three feet of web and started hammering away on it and spinning silk at the same time. Took about three minutes to bind the grasshopper to where it couldn’t move.

I never fucked with a spider’s web after that.