The Menace from Lydia:

Rob Furey
16 min readMar 15, 2020

The Social Spider as Alien Invader

The eyes of a jumping spider, focused and assessing. Image by Ronny Overhate from Pixabay

Meet the Spiders

It was twenty years ago that I first saw a spider city. Scattered sundrops from the canopy dappled the understory plants and set translucent web-works to glow. The structure appeared to soar upward with curving support cables of as I approached the enormous spider city, talking into the tape recorder fixed to an epaulet on my left shoulder.

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Rob Furey

Rob is a professor of integrated science in Pennsylvania where he teaches biology and forensics courses. He writes both fiction and non-fiction.