by Jan Fielden
The other day, The Colonel and I were sitting on the porch, one of our favorite places to be. We had been talking for quite a while when I turned my head and saw a hairy spider sitting on the seat of my rocking chair next to me! I jumped up and backed away from the chair. It was then that we saw a Spider Wasp. Now whether its name is really Spider Wasp I don’t know, but that’s what we call them. They seem to sting and then drag spiders off to their nest somewhere. The spider acted as if it were traumatized as it just sat there even with all the commotion of me jumping up out of the chair. The poor Spider Wasp was hunting for it and going from place to place on the chair. We kept telling him where the spider was but to no avail.
The Colonel pushed the spider off the chair; however, he pushed a little too much and it ended up in the yard. The Spider Wasp had jumped down on to the ground and was running everywhere hunting for his noon day meal. The Colonel got a stick and lifted the spider back up on the chair and soon here comes the Spider Wasp. We were excited because we knew the spider was going to be gone for good. But the Spider Wasp traipsed everywhere on the chair again except where the spider was. We finally decided there was no helping either one of them plus the fact we had work to do so we knocked the spider off onto the porch floor.
About 30 minutes later I looked out the front window and the spider was gone, gone, gone! The Red Oak Ranch Spider Wasp won out in the end.
