a spider romance

When I moved into the bus, a week ago, I swept away as many cobwebs as I could, but there was one above my desk, where a Dandy Long Legs was living, and it seemed apt to keep him there as a kind of pet. I saw him catching baby cicadas in his web over the next couple of days. He would wrap them up in some web and soon he had many little food packages ready for feasting whenever he pleased.

After a couple of days of catching cicadas, he caught a grey bee kind of creature and sucked the insides out of it immediately, before tossing it onto my desk.

The next day, I noticed a new addition to the web-- a big, fat lady Dandy Long Legs. She was obviously pregnant. I am not sure how Mr Dandy Long Legs got her there. Had he gone out and fucked her and then seduced him into her home with its impressive food supply? She got fatter and fatter over the next couple of days.

Last night, I watched them both feasting on baby cicadas--he would wait until they were caught in the web and then wrap them up and then she would grab a package and she'd suck it dry. They seemed so content. I think I was kind of jealous of their partnership. He was good at taking care of her.

This morning, I checked the web as soon as I woke up and it was empty.