I was mildly alarmed a few weeks ago to have this small green orb web spider fall on my head as I closed the curtains. I've never seen such a bright green spider. The plot thickened when the spider didn't run away when it fell to the carpet.
It turned out that the spider had dropped from a mason wasp's nest in the folds of the curtain. The wasp had paralysed the spider and its relatives and placed them in the nest for its offspring to consume at leisure.
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