I saw a well-situated, large (bigger than a dime without counting legs) spider on a walk. His web reached about 3 or 4 feet across a few trees and bushes.
The interesting part was, as I was staring at this spider's kingdom, I noticed another, much smaller, spider encroaching upon the top bit. The larger spider had his attention gained and skittered away towards the offending party. As he approached and saw, not a harmless bug as surely anticipated, but another, perhaps dangerous spider, he slowed. And stopped, extending his front two legs protectively.
This monolith of an arachnid paused and allowed the smaller offender to approach him, so he could attack when he felt safe. During one such rush, the smaller spider fell off of the web completely, dangling on one small tendril, trying to regain composure. But he crawled up his lifeline, and just went right back to the face-off.
I lost time, standing and waiting for action, but seeing a small glimpse of this other world has granted me a lovely insight.
Even if you have every advantage, it is still in your best interest to play towards security.
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