Bugs On High

I learned from listening to an audiobook of Charlotte’s Web with my son a couple of weeks ago how spiders travel far distances.  (First, what a beautiful book.  I’d never read it.  And it was gorgeously read by E.B. White himself, slowly, rapturously, in a deep tenor voice.)  But then, how spiders travel by dropping themselves into the air and spinning a little parachute and taking their lives wherever they happen to land–in a barn, over a river, on the side of a skyscraper in Chicago. Read a little about how spiders travel here.

This other bug? I have no idea.  Both Charlotte’s cousin, above, and this creepy guy, landed on my window mere days from one another.