Not Lepidoptera - Spiders

[Denise]

I found this and thought it may raise a laugh or two. Please don't take it seriously as it's a joke. (no spider was actually drugged)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc

Denise

[Denise]

What great camouflage

Denise

[Zonda]

I never cease to be astounded by nature.

[Susie]

Great picture, Denise.

[Dave McCormick]

Petty my video camera messed up 2 nights ago. I was out at around 10pm, with torch, and setting up heath traps to see what moths were around and I saw a spider web with a male and female spider. The male was giving the female a "present" of a dead fly wrapped up in silk, while the female was unwapping this gift, he came behind her and attempted to mate her. But seeing the size difference, I guess he had to be quick or be found out and eaten by her. I think it was a Comb-footed Spider I was watching.

[Trev Sawyer]

I realise Gruditch has previously posted a photo of a wasp spider on this "thread" ( ), but I was under the impression they were only found in Southern counties. Certainly not what I expected to stumble across in rural Bedfordshire today anyway...

Photo taken with my little compact camera as I was actually fish-spotting at the time

Trev

[Gruditch]

Nice ain't they Trev, I think they are across the south from Kent to Wiltshire / Dorset, and the last I knew, they had reached as far North as Oxfordshire.

Gruditch

[eccles]

Nice catch, Trev. I'll have to look out for them in Somerset.