Rubes by Leigh Rubin for July 04, 2020

Help me! Help me!

Whoa: That’s an overachieving spider: Grasshoppers are serious bad news for spider webs.

Though there is this: http://0364551.netsolhost.com/WordPress/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/farside-spiders.jpg

Heeelp meee!!!

Oh yeah? Cut steel with a pair of scissors and show me.

I’ve walked through dozens of spider webs with no real problems – steel, once, and it left a mark.

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I once tossed a grasshopper into the web of a big black & yellow garden spider. I thought I was treating the spider to a feast, but instead the grasshopper kicked the daylights out of it. Poor spider was afraid of grasshoppers after that.

Now stay comfy till dinner time.

Norm sucking the life out of someone with his little known facts first. And then literally.

Alas, his lesson was almost over.

Eye, eye, Captain Spider.

If that were true, bridges would be made of silk…

I got your itsy bitsy right here!

Too bad Gary will never get a chance to test out this little theory