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Flaxbee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-28-11 08:24 PM Original message |
Spiders are incredible. For three nights running, one of these has spun |
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idiotgardener (479 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-28-11 09:00 PM Response to Original message |
1. They really are. |
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Flaxbee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-28-11 09:31 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. no - I should, but it's such a happy/sad story |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-28-11 09:40 PM Response to Original message |
3. I once had one spin a web across my front door overnight |
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Flaxbee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-28-11 10:57 PM Response to Original message |
4. She has feasted on three stink bugs already tonight. |
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libodem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-28-11 11:14 PM Response to Original message |
5. Your own personal spider |
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dimbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 01:14 AM Response to Original message |
6. You may feel a slight urge to free Scotland. |
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fizzgig (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 01:23 AM Response to Original message |
7. they certainly are |
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SCantiGOP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
8. remember the Far Side cartoon |
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kath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 12:04 AM Response to Reply #8 |
23. Heh. I thought of that too |
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MerryBlooms (940 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 04:16 PM Response to Original message |
9. Beautiful. Spiders are amazing creatures. n/t |
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Ineeda (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 04:21 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Well, okay, except for the widows in my mailbox. |
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MerryBlooms (940 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 04:31 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Yeah, widows give me the creeps too - and earwigs |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
11. I lived by a park a few years ago. There was lots of fauna in my apartment but particularly spiders. |
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Bladian (308 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 05:07 PM Response to Original message |
13. Oh god spiders. |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 05:51 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Yeah. I'm with you. I hate 'em. |
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Flaxbee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
15. Last night's stink bug-a-palooza must have worn her out; tonight she |
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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 11:08 PM Response to Original message |
16. I love spiders. That looks like a garden spider...I had one and her name was Lily. |
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Gabi Hayes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 11:18 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. could be a wood spider.....the banded, striped legs, maybe>>> |
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Flaxbee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 11:19 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. that's not her in the photo I posted - just looks like her. Some type of orb weaver |
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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 11:25 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. Ha ha. I've seen that before. |
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Flaxbee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 11:18 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. do you know why one would spin a web three nights in a row across |
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Avalux (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 11:24 PM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Yep, she's probably not hungry. Webs are hard work, she needed a rest. |
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Flaxbee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jul-29-11 11:31 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. yes, those stink bugs wiped out her web in a little under two hours last night |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 12:31 AM Response to Original message |
24. I have one kind of like that working out by the front gate... |
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Flaxbee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 12:37 AM Response to Reply #24 |
26. looks familiar - there are a lot of orb weavers out there ... |
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bigwillq (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-30-11 12:34 AM Response to Original message |
25. Nice pic |
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