My Own Private Spider-o Update
Last week, she disappeared for a few days and the web went to hell, then she stayed disappeared for a few more days. I thought ‘She’s dead.’
Then one day, I look up and there’s two masses oscillating wildly just below her favoured perch at the top of the web and a few centimeters behind. (She hardly ever sat in the middle of the web.) It went on for a couple of hours. The upper mass seemed to be just spider legs, with no spider body skin. Then the lower mass just hung there, drying out, I assume, with legs becoming more separate from the body, and finally turning back into Shelob. Charlotte. Charlobbe? Shelarlotte? I don’t know. Loblotte maybe?
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It turns out she was moulting and trying to disengage herself from her old skin.
She’s back, less voracious it seems, but purty as ever.