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Re: Not Lepidoptera - Spiders
Posted: Tue Sep 01, 2009 8:45 pm
by 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
Re: Not Lepidoptera - Spiders
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:02 pm
by Denise
What great camouflage
Denise
Re: Not Lepidoptera - Spiders
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:05 pm
by Zonda
I never cease to be astounded by nature.
Re: Not Lepidoptera - Spiders
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:39 pm
by Susie
Great picture, Denise.
Re: Not Lepidoptera - Spiders
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:53 pm
by 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.
Re: Not Lepidoptera - Spiders
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 5:24 pm
by 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
Re: Not Lepidoptera - Spiders
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:22 pm
by 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
Re: Not Lepidoptera - Spiders
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 7:49 pm
by eccles
Nice catch, Trev. I'll have to look out for them in Somerset.