Along came a spider. "Spidie" is just a common house spider but she is Marc Osborn's pet. She lives in a web she built between his TV set and his DVR. She's shy but did come out to pose for this photo.
Marc Osborn has a spider web connected to his 43 inch flat screen TV and his DVR. It has been there about five months and contains what he thinks is a female spider.
Her name is "Spidie". He feeds her mostly living bugs from around the house and swimming pool. Spiders can only ingest liquid so they must inject a fluid into their prey and that digests the bug inside itself. Then the spider sucks out the liquid food. Marc learned this on Wikipedia but he learned how to catch flies from his father when he was about seven years old.
Friends also bring over live food for Spidie such as live bees and crickets purchased at Petco in the Junction. Marc suspects Spidie is somewhat handicapped however since her web is wide open and never catches anything itself so he believes she would not be alive and healthy with out his aid. He educates his friend's children when they come over to visit. Surprisingly they love it!
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