Arachnoid window

I have a guest. Just outside my window. I am not a huge fan of it. I don't like spiders very much. And this is a big spider. Not big compared to how big some spiders are, but big compared to how big the swedish spiders normally are.

And I have to look at it every day. It has made an impressive web. Of what I have seen, it has so far eaten two bees and a small moth.

Although it is disguisting, it is simultaneously very beautifully patterned. And it is intriguing watching it prey, web the victims up (alive, living for several hours, moving in the web ball, yuck!) and eat them.

But my evolutionary inheritance still makes me shiver and my hairs to stand erect when I see the spider move.