BugAttraction | First Contact: Along Came a Spider, and said; "Oh, hello..." @Bugattraction | Uploaded July 2015 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
Recorded June, 2013.
THE REAL STORY..., is in how this encounter ultimately shifted the course of my life and my understanding. I make no claim to the science or any conclusion. This is just my story and what can't be demonstrated can certainly be considered.
This was my first real contact. I met this large lady upon grabbing the handle of a garbage can. I felt her fuzzy little body, and by all rights she should have bitten me. Either she didn't, or she couldn't, but she fell untethered to ground.
She writhed around like she was hurt or at least stunned. But she quickly gathered herself and scurried for cover. I noticed her little head turning and looking for options, and seemingly recognizing there was no escape.
Still cringing myself, I instinctively went to step on her, not knowing any difference between she and a rattlesnake in terms of danger. And Yuck! She was on me! But she stopped in her tracks with nowhere to run, and looked back at me with resignation as if to say; "Please! Don't hurt me..."
Real or not, I shifted in that moment. I saw more than a thing, I saw her. Stranger still, when my energy shifted, so did hers. It can't be explained, only experienced, that she interpreted the change in my intent and dropped her guard.
She watched as I grabbed a paper towel to put her outside. She climbed on willingly when I set it before her, just far enough to be safe, and stopped as I raised her from the ground and carried her to the back yard.
I placed her near the sunny foundation of my home. She climbed off of the towel onto the concrete where I expected her to run away. She didn't. Instead, she turned and looked back at me. I must have been saying something as she tilted her head, and then turned and casually wandered under a nearby brick.
It was the next encounter that really confirmed there was something to see. I saw her again near where I had released her. I had temporarily moved the garbage can from from which she'd fallen and placed it adjacent to that same area.
Upon seeing it there, this hefty little lady reemerged, trekking across an expanse of concrete to get to it.
I attempted to guide her back into the grass, but she was determined in her direction. It became readily apparent that her destination was where I had originally encountered her. She wanted back in the can.
I had a large popsicle stick from a not-so-recent ice cream, and by whatever impulse compelled me at that moment, I placed the dry side flat in front of her. She looked up at me, paused, cautiously reached out and felt it before climbing on.
OK, I thought, this is unusual..., and I began to lift her toward her destination. But about a foot off the ground, she panicked, jumping to the of with her legs flailing about. But..., she seemed game to try it again, and so I presented the option again, and went slower this time, but as she ascended, she freaked out again. For all she knew, I was about to pop her into my mouth as a snack.
I grabbed a longer metal bar that put me at a greater distance form her. Quite amazingly, she accepted my invitation to climb on once again - a third time, where I lifted her slowly to the rim of the garbage container.
It was at this point I grabbed my camera, and capture this last encounter her you see posted here, and the first of what would be many such interactions of discovery.
All original content.
Copyright:
Kyle Burdash, aka
Bug Attraction
The Phidippus Project
Recorded June, 2013.
THE REAL STORY..., is in how this encounter ultimately shifted the course of my life and my understanding. I make no claim to the science or any conclusion. This is just my story and what can't be demonstrated can certainly be considered.
This was my first real contact. I met this large lady upon grabbing the handle of a garbage can. I felt her fuzzy little body, and by all rights she should have bitten me. Either she didn't, or she couldn't, but she fell untethered to ground.
She writhed around like she was hurt or at least stunned. But she quickly gathered herself and scurried for cover. I noticed her little head turning and looking for options, and seemingly recognizing there was no escape.
Still cringing myself, I instinctively went to step on her, not knowing any difference between she and a rattlesnake in terms of danger. And Yuck! She was on me! But she stopped in her tracks with nowhere to run, and looked back at me with resignation as if to say; "Please! Don't hurt me..."
Real or not, I shifted in that moment. I saw more than a thing, I saw her. Stranger still, when my energy shifted, so did hers. It can't be explained, only experienced, that she interpreted the change in my intent and dropped her guard.
She watched as I grabbed a paper towel to put her outside. She climbed on willingly when I set it before her, just far enough to be safe, and stopped as I raised her from the ground and carried her to the back yard.
I placed her near the sunny foundation of my home. She climbed off of the towel onto the concrete where I expected her to run away. She didn't. Instead, she turned and looked back at me. I must have been saying something as she tilted her head, and then turned and casually wandered under a nearby brick.
It was the next encounter that really confirmed there was something to see. I saw her again near where I had released her. I had temporarily moved the garbage can from from which she'd fallen and placed it adjacent to that same area.
Upon seeing it there, this hefty little lady reemerged, trekking across an expanse of concrete to get to it.
I attempted to guide her back into the grass, but she was determined in her direction. It became readily apparent that her destination was where I had originally encountered her. She wanted back in the can.
I had a large popsicle stick from a not-so-recent ice cream, and by whatever impulse compelled me at that moment, I placed the dry side flat in front of her. She looked up at me, paused, cautiously reached out and felt it before climbing on.
OK, I thought, this is unusual..., and I began to lift her toward her destination. But about a foot off the ground, she panicked, jumping to the of with her legs flailing about. But..., she seemed game to try it again, and so I presented the option again, and went slower this time, but as she ascended, she freaked out again. For all she knew, I was about to pop her into my mouth as a snack.
I grabbed a longer metal bar that put me at a greater distance form her. Quite amazingly, she accepted my invitation to climb on once again - a third time, where I lifted her slowly to the rim of the garbage container.
It was at this point I grabbed my camera, and capture this last encounter her you see posted here, and the first of what would be many such interactions of discovery.
All original content.
Copyright:
Kyle Burdash, aka
Bug Attraction
The Phidippus Project
