Gone

She's gone. The spider is gone. Her web is in tatters. Her mate is still guarding the egg sacs (now there are two). I'm so sad. I don't know what happened. Was she killed by something larger? Did she simply die? It's been an enire day with no sight of her. She was here for about a week. Every day I checked up on her. While it was a bit creepy, it was also fascinating to watch her. I wish I knew more about how this sort of spider lives...about what happened to her. Now I'm thinking if she is gone tomorrow I will go to the web and carefully collect the egg sacs and male spider and relocate them to my garden where the offspring can be born safely and, yes, AWAY from the house. There certainly is an "eek" factor about this that I'm not ignoring.

Spider-lady wherever you are you are missed.