Spiders of the North Woods

This is a book I actually bought instead of borrowing it from the library.  I took a class a couple weeks ago and Larry Weber, the author of Spiders of the North Woods was one of the instructors.  Another person on the trip mentioned he wasn't being paid to come on this trip so we could help him out by purchasing a book or two from him.  I got a deal because I see it for sale for $5 to $10 more than I paid.  I read the book this weekend.  How boring was it to read a field guide to spiders?  When faced with the alternative of cleaning the house, this book on spiders was riveting.  With their two section bodies and their 8 legs spiders lead fairly solitary lives.  Some spider babies immediately fly away on threads blown by the wind because if they don't their siblings will eat them.  Some spiders are carnivores and some are vegetarians.  Some make the classic spoke webs and others make bowl webs or corner webs and some don't make webs at all.  Some spiders remake their webs every day.  These are the ultimate recyclers.  They eat their old web and spin another one. They can spin sticky threads and non sticky threads. Spiders can't see very well so if a male spiders wants to court a female spider on a spoke web he has to vibrate and do a little dance so she doesn't mistake him for a meal.  Then he takes his sperm web that he made earlier and inserts onto the female for an indirect insemination.  So you can see how reading about spiders is much more fun that mopping the floor!  There is an entire series of things from the North Woods.  The publisher includes a famous naturalist from Duluth.  I already have Dragonflies of the Northwoods but there are also butterflies, fungi, lichen, moths and caterpillars, orchids and wildflowers.