2009/09/03

くもの巣 / A spiderweb

おととい裏庭にニョキニョキ出ていたミョウガを取っていて、ふと立ち上がったら太めの糸みたいなものにひっかかった。何だろうと上の方を見たら、頭上に超!巨大なくもの巣が・・・!

そして引っかかっていたのは蚊でもハエでもなく、大きなトンボ!どんだけデカイ巣だ。私が引っかかっても糸は全然切れてなかったし。昔BBCの自然番組で、くもの糸は寄り合わせるとワイヤーより強いとかなんとか言っていた気がします。その時は、「ウッソだ〜」と思っていたのですが、おととい「こりゃ、ホントだわ」と実感したわけです。おそるべきクモの糸!

クモは見かけがちょっとニガテだけど、尊敬はしようと思いました。

I was picking up some Japanese gingers in the backyard the day before yesterday, when I thought I'd touched some kind of thread behind me. I looked up, and there I saw a massive spider's web!!

Well, it's normal to see some flies hooked up on spiderwebs, but I'd never seen a huge dragon fly entangled in it! I remember a TV programme on BBC about spiderweb. It was saying that the thread can be much stronger than a wire of the same thickness. That time, I thought "I won't believe it.", but today, after a few years I watched the programme, I was convinced that was true.

I've never liked spiders, but i do think it's an amazing living creature!