Anyone else enjoy finding fat spiders in their garden? I feel it should be a kind of contest for green witches. I have some champions this year, first there is Ayesha the ghost spider, and now a new orb-weaver contestant, it was so full today it just stared at the aphid I placed in it’s web, I am calling that one Pumpkin.
Ghost spiders adopted me as familiars a few years ago, and this year’s brood is spicy. Usually I wait until the Summer solstice to give them names, but this jewel came into the world like a cage-fighter and took no prisoners, so she will be Aisha, after the Saharan Djinn queen. During the day she lounges between rose petals munching on thrips, at night she goes out hunting in the jungle of thorns for larger prey and the occasional male, which probably looks like a neon Colosseum to their eyes, judging by the way they and the rose glow under UV light.
English perfume roses and Datura
