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In the woods, looking for mushrooms, I kept seeing these little yellow clumps of something that looked like seed
pods or something. It was made up of individual balls about the size of a millet seed, like in birdseed. I actually thought a bird had regurgitated a lump of seed hulls (not knowing if anybody actually
does that, besides owls--
here's a nice one). Finally I decided to take a closer look at one (almost everything's worth taking a closer look at, I've discovered), and
when I reached down to move aside some leaves, the whole thing--well,
"exploded" is a good word. Only not very fast, and quietly.
So then I kept finding them, and I would blow a puff of breath on them and watch them do that.
They are a type of orb weaver spider, according
to the crew at
bugguide.net.
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I haven't sat around and watched them pull back together into a ball, which I assume
they do, but who knows. What I do know is they are really, really tiny cute little yellow spiderlings.
