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Vaya con Dios, Carlotta; Bienvenidos Facundo.

Posted on by Ann Carranza

Well, Carlotta was (yes, was) female.  She placed her egg sac on the cactus pad and, after attaching it with the fine filaments of her silk, she left.  We haven’t found her body and we haven’t found her.  Further reading indicates that her life’s work is done after reproduction, and that her time here has [...]

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Carlotta’s web

Posted on by Ann Carranza

On spindly, but stealthy,  multi-hued legs, Carlotta scuttles across the light green nopal (cactus) pad.  Her uniformly mottled abdomen is plump in brownish-black and yellow, accessorized with orange.  Upon closer examination, we find Carlotta’s hairy face and head resembles that of a minute monkey.  Eight bristle-haired legs, articulated in three places, stretch as she moves [...]

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