TARANTULA APPRECIATION DAY “Yet here we have the young Tarantula, wishing to leave her mother and to travel far away by the easiest and swiftest methods, suddenly becoming an enthusiastic climber.  We know her object.  From on high, finding a wide space beneath her, she sends a thread floating.  It is caught by the wind, and carries her hanging to it.  We have our aeroplanes; she too possesses her flying-machine.  She makes it in her hour of need, and when the journey is finished thinks no more about it.” -Jean-Henri Fabre, Insect Adventures