Cool pic of a spider in my garden

[WhiteSE]

Taken with cheapy Kodak digi cam


http://publish.hometown.aol.com/jsujo/images/spider1.jpg

[EchoWars]

Argiope aurantia. Sukers get big, but they are very beneficial critters. Used to love tossing ants into the webs when I was a kid.

[WhiteSE]

Argiope aurantia. Sukers get big, but they are very beneficial critters. Used to love tossing ants into the webs when I was a kid.

Poor ants...and to think they are so disciplined and clean...

[Morden2004]

Taken with cheapy Kodak digi cam


spider (http://publish.hometown.aol.com/jsujo/images/spider1.jpg)

Thats a terrific shot even for a cheap Kodak! It can't be that bad :no: .

Paul

[alexkerhead]

Dang, I can't walk 6 feet in my yard without getting one of them buggers in my hair.
Its ridiculous.

[Sandy G]

We call 'em "Garden Writing Spiders" here. Sometimes you can see the daddy spider in a corner of the web-before she mates with & then eats him...-Sandy G.

[Unican_Eric]

I dont care what it is or what its called, But if its in my garden its gonna be target practice cause I HATE SPIDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Nice shot though. :thmbsp:

[WhiteSE]

I dont care what it is or what its called, But if its in my garden its gonna be target practice cause I HATE SPIDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

Nice shot though. :thmbsp:

Dont you hate mosquitoes more?

[THOR]

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww KILL IT!!!!! KILL IT!!!!! KILL IT!!!!! KILL IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[WhiteSE]

Thor..control yourself.....lol

[Unican_Eric]

Dont you hate mosquitoes more?

Kill them too....... :yes:

[Sandy G]

KILL 'EM !!KILL ALL OF THE LITTLE MUTHA....BLOW THEIR LITTLE COMMIE ASSES TO KINGDOM COME BWAAAAAAHHHH!!!-Sandy G, just watched the original "Dawn of the Dead" again...

[kc8adu]

aohell wont serve the pic.
try uploading it to ak
spiders are cool but you can have these wasps and hornets/yellowjackets we have here.got hit yesterday by one.nest went boom this morning.pull! boom.12 ga insecticide.

[madpioneer]

For the first time I had one of those in the backyard of my new home, and damn if I spotted the web only after running into while mowing. Now the spider has left the area! :dammit: :twak:
Only time I had the opportunity to see one up close was at a customer's Ranch house. Hope he comes back around!

[ckelly]

I got a spider shot too :p:

http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b106/topherchile/SpiderCrop.jpg

Chris

[Markus111]

Dang, I can't walk 6 feet in my yard without getting one of them buggers in my hair.
Its ridiculous.


Spiders like that make me appreciate Michigan a little more. Nice long winter that kills everything!!!!!

Mark

[Sandy G]

Don't guess you would have approved of my pet Tarantulas, then ? <grin>-Sandy G.

[luvvinvinyl]

OK, since [IMG] tags are disabled (in the Cameras forum? WTF?) let's see if we can upload to AK.

I had to reduce the one pic to 900 pixels in size, but otherwise, everything is OK, there. Just the IMG tags are disabled

[ckelly]

vinyl

I could have posted them like that as an attachment, but i wanted to do it from photobucket.

Chris

[luvvinvinyl]

sorry, Chris. I was just exploring the possibilities. Attachments work, IMG tags don't, in THIS forum. IMG tags work in others, though. Go figure.

[ckelly]

now it works... Tim fixed it :)

[Sandy G]

Chris, that spider you got looks disturbingly close to a Black Widow...those are fairly common here. I hated to do it, but I've sent a few to Spidey Heaven...not scared of 'em myself, but they might bite my mom, dad, or sis, or one of the dogs.-Sandy G.

[ckelly]

LOL here there's lots of things that bite or sting. I leave them alone - that spider in particular was at the sydney botanical gardens when i took the pic earlier this year.

Chris

[Sandy G]

Y'all have wasps, hornets 'n' yellow jackets down in Oz ? If not, would you LIKE some ?!? I'd be most happy to oblige.....<grin>-Sandy G.

[uofmtiger]

I have had a spider living in my garden for a while, too.

[rickon66]

When I was a kid(50+) years ago, we lived in government housing in the Mississippi river bottoms of southern Illinois. The black widows were so thick around the foundations of those houses that we used them for pets. It was a real poor area, we only had dirt to play with. No audio equipment at all.

[tgunner]

Yeah, we have those spiders here in New Jersey. These aren't like Black Widows (which we also have). A black widow is around 1" long, while these garden spiders are usually around 2.5-3.5" leg-leg, and much, much heavier! They also move a lot faster than the black widow which seem to move slowly in comparison to other spiders, namely Wolf spiders, they can go FAST! :eek:

[Ghog]

Found one of these at church early Sunday morning. This is not my picture, but the one I found was just like it. Between 7 and 8 inches long! I ain't usually squeemish about bugs, but that thing made me want to run screaming. Nightmares are made of this kind bug...

[tgunner]

Doesn't really bother me. Was the centipede that color? They are usually just brown.

[Ghog]

Yeah, the head wasn't quite as vivid red as that, but otherwise it was the same color. The sheer size of it is what's so shocking. Think carpenters pencil with a head and legs. It literally is about the same size as a flat carpenters pencil. Scolopendra heros is the genus/species, and apparently it is not uncommon in certain localilties where conditions are right. I got it in a tupperware box and sent it to my bro in Arkansas. He's a biologist and will get a real kick out of it. I hope it arrives alive...

[tgunner]

You actually sent one in the mail?? :scratch2: That's odd. Did you pack it well? You don't want it banging around in the container. Did you tell the shipper what i t was?

[Ghog]

Why is that odd? He wanted to see it. And no, I didn't tell the shipper. It is sealed in a plastic container inside a box stuffed with paper, can't escape, and isn't any more dangerous than a wasp or bee if it did. It has damp paper towels to provide humidity and cushion it's tossing around, so unless they get it too hot, it should make the short journey ok. And if it dies, well, he just gets a dead centipede to look at instead of a live one!

[tgunner]

good plan...

[Kamakiri]

I would about freak. I'm never moving from here :yes: