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
Not Lepidoptera - Spiders
Re: Not Lepidoptera - Spiders
What great camouflage
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Great picture, Denise. ![Very Happy :D](./images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif)
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Re: Not Lepidoptera - Spiders
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.
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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...
![Image](http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm307/trevsawyer/Waspspider.jpg)
Photo taken with my little compact camera as I was actually fish-spotting at the time
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Photo taken with my little compact camera as I was actually fish-spotting at the time
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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
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Nice catch, Trev. I'll have to look out for them in Somerset.