I know Sarah, you hate when I put spider close-ups on the blog, but here goes. We caught a wolf spider in the house last week. Yes, I am still a whimp, yes I did squeel and scream the whole time, but I caught it!
I mostly caught it to prove to Al that we really do have spiders of that magnitude in the house. Yes, i am the fierce jungle queen. Well I caught a little house spider the next day and the girls decided we should throw them togehter and see what happens. Well "wolfy," like it's little snack, so we got adventurous. We tried a beastie grasshopper form the garden. No beans, to big. So we set it free, and caught a few more little guys for our spider. The girls still loved having the spider around, but we decided we couldn't keep feeding it through the winter so Albert set it free. It was a fun observation though. It sure taught Tenna about what it really means for somehting to eat something else. She was a little sad for the little spiders.
3 comments:
SERIOUSLY YUCK! and you really set it free?!! sorry to all of you who might be "spider lovers" but i would have smashed it! that is an interesting concept to teach children though and i guess that is a pretty good way to go about teaching it.... i still would have smashed it before i could have ever even had the chance to think about catching it.
sorry but i totally agree with sarah. i guess i am just a wimp when it comes to creepy crawly critters though, the kids i tend wanted me to catch a grass hopper that was HUGE and i did for like a secend then i chickened out. i even squealed, kinda embarrassing. and yes i would have smashed it too;)
we found two black widows!!! I hate spiders- I dont want them to hurt me or my babies
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