Roscoe's Midnight Snack

After I took pictures of the Pacific Tree Frog, I peeked over to see what Roscoe was up to, and as luck would have it, a beetle had just flown into HER web (yes, he's a she!) and within a minute, she'd wrapped it up and sat with a foot lightly touching it to sense any movement. She will wait for it to die and then have a tasty feast! By the way, she is getting bigger and bigger and eating like a piggy! She eats 3-4 insects every day, maybe more that I haven't seen. I don't know if she's attracted a mate yet but I have been checking every day. She needs all the energy she can get because she needs to grow to her full size and make an egg sac before she dies in a couple of months. :*( I am trying to prepare myself...I know Roscoe is "just" a spider...but she's been here since the beginning of September and I've watched her grow from a itty bitty 1/4" spider, so small I could barely see her, and I kept and eye on her while she hibernated all winter until March. And now...WOW, she's so big and beautiful, and growing bigger every week! She's so cool. It will be so sad when she dies, but if all goes well, she'll have had a whole egg sac of babies and maybe one or two of them will hang around, just like Charlotte's babies!! I hope so...that would be wonderful!