Travels With Charlie: Funnel Web Spider

 

“Perched like clouds just above the ground

Deftly fastened throughout and around

The smallest strands of branch and leaf

Constructions almost beyond belief

And each of these around a funnel

Which is, for bugs, a one-way tunnel

The lone inhabitant waits within

Like us, to see what the day will bring.

As we watch our fortunes rise and fall,

We’re not so different, after all.”

–Lyrics by Charles Paparella, WBOC News.