smart spiders – Desk to Dirt

Where’s Spider Uno?

September 23, 2014 Dennis Leave a comment

I returned home from a few days of road travel and quickly checked to see if the shack was okay, it was. And I expected to see my three stalwart spiders still hanging on their respective webs; Dos and Tres were, but the oldest of the three – Uno – was nowhere to be found. It sounds strange to be

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Eeensie Weensie Spider

August 3, 2014 Dennis Leave a comment

I have a nagging question on my mind: how smart are these creatures that live amongst me (or better said, that I live with)? Can a frog in the wild be taught by us to do something, anything? A bird? A snake? What about human intervention modifying a spider’s intentions? Around nine p.m. many evenings, I open my door to

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