Last Friday, I took my monthly trip to our transmitter site at Broadcast Peak, and discovered a dead mouse. That’s not always a unique thing, as Broadcast Peak is in a very remote area, and it’s not unusual for a mouse to end its days around our facility. One even found it’s way into the electrical part of our backup generator, and… well, there wasn’t a whole lot left - although it got the final laugh. Cost of a new generator: over $8000 (includes rodent prevention).
One of the other critters that enjoys broadcast sites are black widows. I routinely see these little creepies when I first enter - where they immediately run and hide out of site and proving that they are, in fact, more scared of us than we are of them (please, no one tell them different).
Apparently, between visits, and mouse tangled with a black widow, and the end result is the photo below:
That is the skeletal remains of a mouse suspended in the remaining web of a black widow spider… and easily one of the coolest things I have ever seen. And if you feel sorry for the mouse… think bubonic plague.
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