Yes!

That reminds me of my old favourite search engine in the mid 1990s

I was in there last night. With my telescope!

I did not have the courage, though, to stand there gawping at the big web. And potentially making a big pillock of myself.

Oh, the big web construct has got bigger!

My Pest Control mate was with me for a bit and he estimates that it is now 8 feet in length and expanding by width dramatically.

And another one of my long-term inmates of The Capitol reported that one of the spiders dropped down via its web last Saturday (that's about a 40 foot drop) and then hilariously got sucked out one of the side doors when somebody popped out for a ciggie into their beer garden.

So, Les, based on that then it is entirely possible that your daughter's adopted one in your garage may well share a bit of The Capitol's spider's DNA.

Totally agree.

Although, I still do get the heebie jeebies. And jump through the roof if some little bug hops on my skin when I'm looking at spiders. And I also feel like they are crawling on the back of my neck when there is nothing there.

And thank you very much Applespider for that Society of Biology link. I will study that a bit later today and start participating.

I'm quite sure we have something really interesting in SE23 to contribute to their database.

Thank you again.