
The Great Salt Lake Orb Weaver Phenomenon
A few weeks back, I visited the marina at the Great Salt Lake State Park. The Great Salt Lake is beautiful (albeit smelly) but something else significantly left me awestruck this time. There is a large rock jetty at the marina, which is usually a wonderful place to watch the sunset from the marina. I was quite surprised to find this entire jetty, absolutely completely covered in spiders. Thousands of them. They are known as the Western Spotted Orb-weaver, and they thrive in t