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Another interesting spider around here
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Frank Pinello
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Cool photos. I'm not a spider fan but you can't ignore the natural beauty.
What made it really challenging getting closeup pics was that these little spiders were between the spikes of a yucca plant. So while I'm maneuvering to get the shots, between the wind and trying to avoid getting skewered in the eyeballs by those sharp points of the yucca, yeah, it was a challenge.
Karl_Mcknight
Common Sense Holder
Spider stuffing itself
I ran across this spider, (have no idea what kind it is) while walking the Lake a while back. The spider was eating what looks to be some type of grasshopper or maybe a Katydid. (I'm thinking it's a Katydid, but there's not enough of it there to tell for sure). I shot the picture with a Canon T5, Hand Held, with a zoom lens set at about 200mm.
I ran across this spider, (have no idea what kind it is) while walking the Lake a while back. The spider was eating what looks to be some type of grasshopper or maybe a Katydid. (I'm thinking it's a Katydid, but there's not enough of it there to tell for sure). I shot the picture with a Canon T5, Hand Held, with a zoom lens set at about 200mm.
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I wish the yellow flies would die off so I could get outside with the camera some more. Of course, they are tapering off now, but it appears that the mosquito population is inflating to take their place. It's REALLY difficult to concentrate on taking a photo when you have a bunch of blood suckers buzzing all around you. REALLY takes the fun out of it. At least for me, anyway. I just don't like being a buffet style food item for the local wildlife.
Of course, if the spiders are dining heartily on the flies and skeeters, by the time I can get out there, the spiders will be the size of kittens. Then I'm not going anywhere near them, anyway. :eek1: I've already seen some HUGE wolf spiders around here.
Of course, if the spiders are dining heartily on the flies and skeeters, by the time I can get out there, the spiders will be the size of kittens. Then I'm not going anywhere near them, anyway. :eek1: I've already seen some HUGE wolf spiders around here.
Raven
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Yeah, I've had a few spiders that were the size of a newborn kitten. I made a friend move one for me because she ever so kindly made her enormous web from the roof of my porch to my car. If I walked out of my door, I would have had a spider the size of my fist on my head. I love watching spiders, but that one... No thanks!
We have a type of spider around here that tends to only build it's web during the night hours. It must take it up during the day, because we never see the webs then. Makes walking outside during the night to go to the garage or other building a challenge, because just because there wasn't a web across the path earlier during daylight hours, doesn't mean there won't be one there now. And, of course, the spider tends to sit in the web right about face height.
They don't get very big, only having a body size about the diameter of a nickel, at most, but still...... Any spider in my face is one WAY too many for me. And this one just looks, well, EVIL looking to me. No way I want it running across my face!
About the only spiders I seem to have a soft spot for are the little jumping spiders. Not sure why, but for some reason I will go out or my way to help keep them from inadvertent harm.
They don't get very big, only having a body size about the diameter of a nickel, at most, but still...... Any spider in my face is one WAY too many for me. And this one just looks, well, EVIL looking to me. No way I want it running across my face!
About the only spiders I seem to have a soft spot for are the little jumping spiders. Not sure why, but for some reason I will go out or my way to help keep them from inadvertent harm.
Raven
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If you take a flashlight out at night and shine it around, you'll see just how many there are around your yard (I'm guessing we have the same types of spiders). Their eye glow. I like the crab spiders - spiny orb weavers - I forget their scientific name though. Starts with an m I think.
Someone showed me that trick with a flashlight at night. You hold the flashlight parallel with your eyes and that really helps to see the gleam of the eyes all around you.
Once I spotted a possum (or was it an armadillo?) like that and it gave me quite a start as I thought it was a particularly HUGE spider's eyes gleaming back at me. Feet don't fail me now! :sidestep:
Once I spotted a possum (or was it an armadillo?) like that and it gave me quite a start as I thought it was a particularly HUGE spider's eyes gleaming back at me. Feet don't fail me now! :sidestep: