While living in south Texas we shared our back porch with up to 8 "pattern" or golden garden spiders they have a leg span of about 4" and spun a web about 4' x 4' between the posts they were somewhat trainable when they spun their web across a walkway we broke it on one side and it has to start over. my daughter and I spent a very fascinated hour watching one of them build a new web. We would carefuly leave the egg sacks alone so we could start over the next spring with another generation of "ladies" as we called them. Scorpians however habe another pourpose entirely; to decorate my boot sole

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