August 29, 2013-by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor
Nature can be cruel. In my garden this year, I have numerous spiders called “orb weavers” or garden spiders. I was watching them today to capture a possible new angle when suddenly a rather large grasshopper jumped into a relatively small orb weaver’s web. In just a matter of seconds, the orb weaver had snared its prey sufficiently to completely disable it. Now, the grasshopper’s fate is “sealed” in a web of natural desire and hunger.