Responding to several spider stories on AL.com, a reader sent in a photo from Pelham of an eye-catching spider that had what resembled a small pumpkin on its back. Banded black and white spider ...

“You’ll break the spider’s web.” “What web?” he asked absentmindedly, adding that he’d already gone out and come back through the same door earlier.

Then it happens — the big black and white spider starts to bounce in its web. "This is a fluke," you think. "A gust of wind has collaborated with a spider to terrify me today.