Arachnids and Insects, by request.

Hey.. what's that up your butt? A barking spider?

This one made a web over our tent one night. She's a little different to the last Master Wheel Weaver I showed.

fdd2blk said:

i'm in. i'll go turn over boards for this thread.


an ugly one. i found it under a paving stone. it's body looked wet and squishy. it's legs are really long but i couldn't get a pic of them strecthed out. it ran too fast.
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Looking forward to seeing more pics FDD (I just picked up on your nick abbr. too...I'm a bit slow at times

Nice, Gryphonn.

But.. would ya mind 'splainin' to me fdd's nick? Cuz I don't get it.

Well, I could be wrong, but I believe it is short for 'Fade To Black'. It's a Metallica song from the 'Ride The Lightning' album.
But then, he could be referring to the film of the same name. It's about a movie buff who kills off all the people who have picked on him in the past. Not a bad movie actually, if you like thrillers.

Ah.. well, it depends. There are some I like, but I don't care for gratuitous violence. I prefer for my mind to be better fucked with, if that makes any sense.

No more spidey piccies for me. There is one similar spider high up over one of our windows, but I need a ladder to see this one. It's smaller, but otherwise appears to be the same species. I have a good western American bird book, but nothing for insects.. I should do some Googling.

this little guy .........

All I can find are books, nothing really good for identification online. crap.
We get those and other detritivores, like pinch-bugs.

amphibians? .........

Coolies FDD. Now you've got me thinking...

I'll see what other amphibs and stuff I can find in our photos. We get Centipedes over here that range in size from about an inch up to 10 inches. I'll go a hunting with the camera today as well and see what I can find for you and Seamaiden (and anyone else lurking). Hope you enjoyed 420. We were dry unfortunately.

Coolies FDD. Now you've got me thinking...

I'll see what other amphibs and stuff I can find in our photos. We get Centipedes over here that range in size from about an inch up to 10 inches. I'll go a hunting with the camera today as well and see what I can find for you and Seamaiden (and anyone else lurking). Hope you enjoyed 420. We were dry unfortunately.

Here's a St Andrews Cross Spider that was hanging around in the garden.

Lovely.

You're a tease, you give one pic at a time.

Gryphonn said:

Here's a St Andrews Cross Spider that was hanging around in the garden.

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that's a cool one.

more please.

Hey, you too, please. I already spidey-spooged all OVER this thread.

As they say over here, "Righto, keep your shirt on!"

First up, this is a Spiny Wheel Weaver. They're quite small, harmless to us humans, but make some beautiful webs at times. The images have been cropped, shrunk and made web friendly. The originals have more detail, but we try to sell our stuff so I can't really throw up the high res ones, sorry. Having said that, some of these we wouldn't be able to sell due to the quality anyway

More coming folks, stay tuned...

There are a lot of Golden Orb Weavers over here. I think in some countries they're called Banana Spiders. This one is devouring some prey. If you look above the female, you can see the male hanging out behind her. Mating is a very risky process for the blokes, obviously.

These pics explain why they're called 'Golden Orb' Weavers. It's the same photo, just different cropping and aspects.

The Golden Orb Weavers share their web with tiny Quicksilver spiders. The Quicksilver spiders clean up all the crap and leftovers from the bigger spider. If you look closely behind this ones abdomen, you can just see the male as well.

The Wheel Weaving Garden Spiders are commonly called 'bush' spiders over here. Unlike the Orb Weavers, they hide out during the day, sometimes dismantling their webs before they hide away. My GF got lucky one morning and found this perfect web, and a Wheel Weaver sitting on anchor strand strand of it's web. They just blow me away sometimes the way they construct their webs, and how they can balance on such a thin strand of web.