FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] Re: OK birders: Here's a spider/snake mystery for you

["Michael Hamm" <hamm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

That's an interesting possibility, although it means the snake must have
come into the porch to shed. How it got in (and out again) I do not
know. There's no way a snakeskin could have blown in from the outside.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Monroe [mailto:markmonroe1@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 11:00 AM
To: Michael Hamm
Subject: Re: [birdky] OK birders: Here's a spider/snake mystery for you


Wind would be my bet.  Snakeskins are fairly light and aerodynamic.

Mark


--- Michael Hamm <hamm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We have a cabin the wooded Knobs of Boyle County. It
> has a screened
> porch. On that porch I keep a sealed plastic garbage
> can for sunflower
> seeds that I use to feed the resident birds. Spiders
> have constructed
> some webs between the can and the porch wall. The
> other day I noticed
> that a small snakeskin (6-8 inches) was imbedded in
> one of the webs,
> suspended about two feet off the floor in mid-air.
>  
> I have no idea how a snake could have gotten into
> the porch in the first
> place as the cabin/porch is built well off the
> ground with no obvious
> places for entry/exit. But the real mystery is how a snakeskin could 
> get suspended in a spider web two feet off the ground?
> No way the web could
> support a shedding snake. Do spiders drag snakeskins
> in from the outside
> to help construct their webs?
>  
> Nature sure is mysterious. Any thoughts?
>  
> Michael Hamm
> Danville
> 


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