Wednesday, September 8, 2010

And this was the runt of the lot


(Orb Weaver??)

The heat of the past few weeks resulted in only one on-farm casualty, an Araucana chicken - but these freaky things are thriving in the hot weather.  While I was making cheese, one twice this size captured a moth in the web below, spin threads around it, and disappeared into a crack in the window frame.