Fatty’s Green Lynx Spider Babies Fixing to Depart

Crumby checks up on Fatty and her babies daily. Yet we have not reported on progress in this venue for a while. Turns out, Fatty’s babies mostly departed yesterday. This picture shows them on a day of departure. Later, many of these tiny vermin climbed up to the top leaf of the Maximilian sunflower plant and let the wind take them to who knows where. Today, at this very nonce, only a very few are still in the nest with Fatty still on guard.


Interestingly, the day before the major departure day, this medium-sized wasp actually got inside the web. Don't know this wasp and only have vague opinions on it. Also, don’t know what it was doing in Fatty's nest besides checking things out, but Fatty didn’t get after it. Fatty was on the other side of the flower stalk, maybe unaware of the intruder.