A free car guard in our garage, but not a human car guard as they are expensive.
This car guard is a volunteer, and it will frighten any prospective thief away, as it is a big baby. They call it a Cape Rain spider, which falls in the Huntsman family and this one is still a youngster.
We love the rain spiders, and I have posted some of them with their nest and the spiderlings coming out of the nest in the past. Now let me tell you that we were delighted to see this lady, but we also have to take care, as I love to leave the kitchen door open when I sit outside, and we don't want this lady to make her way into the house. Much better for her to stay in the garage. Did you know that rain spiders do not like rain? We didn't know until Mrs Google told us so.
Come and have a look at this one.
The common rain spider (Palystes superciliosus), formerly P. natalius, is a species of huntsman spider native to Southern Africa. It is the most common and widespread species in the genus Palystes. In South Africa its distribution ranges from KwaZulu-Natal province in the east, then westwards to the provinces of Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Gauteng and North West in the north, and Eastern Cape and Western Cape in the south. It has a body length of 15–36 mm and a leg span of up to 110mm. The species was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1875.
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See the shiny spot at the top of the head at the front, she was watching us with one of her upper eyes. There is a line of eyes below the shiny eye that looks toward the front.
So yeah, the good thing about having the rain spider as a guard, is that we don't have to pay it overtime, and it even works on long weekends for free. We know that if a car thief sees that spider, the thief will reverse faster out of the garage as what I can with the car when I pull the car out. We now cannot leave the car in the garage with open windows, as can you imagine driving along and something like this starts to crawl down the back of your neck? I am sure that it would not be a pleasant experience.
Such is life.
I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.
Photos by Zac Smith. All-Rights-Reserved.
Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.
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