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Fri 31 Aug, 2007 07:57 am
Looks like something Bilbo Baggins ran into, doesn't it? Not made from a giant spider, but a spider cooperative. No one really knows why. Some may think it is early for Halloween, but it's just in time if the retail store's schedule is anything to go by.
BBC
I have never seen anything like that before
Too bad they didn't post a picture of what the spiders look like.
If it wasn't made by many of this species of spider, it was made by many very much like it. It's a Social Cobweb Spider.
That is really interesting.
Thanks for the pic littlek
that's really cool but I think it was frodo who ran into the spider web in the tunnel leading to mordor.
(I feel like such a D&D geek now)
No, D&D geeks don't get their fictional characters confused they way you have.
(Bilbo was in the Hobbit and had some problems with nassty spiderses.)
<Snatches D&D geek trophy from Bear's hands.>
Thanks- I had enough trouble with my arachnophobia before this picture.
Big quarter-size spiders are always putting up webs in front of my girlfriend's house, which I invariably run into. I think they see me coming and think, "Wow. If we could just catch THAT one, we'd be set for LIFE!"
My worst nightmare is hanging off the roof of a skyscraper by my hands, and having tarantulas crawling over my fingers.
Bi-Polar Bear wrote:my life is over....
Don't be sad... Of
course I'm a bigger geek than you; I'm in Texas.
Fascinating and yet... really creepy! I had no idea they would work together like that. Hope they stay in Texas.
I think it would be neat to watch. I am not afraid of spiders, so it wouldn't bother me.
littlek wrote:If it wasn't made by many of this species of spider, it was made by many very much like it. It's a Social Cobweb Spider.
I saw the story on TV this morning. The spiders did resemble this one, I think. Teenage mutant Ninja Spiders.
DrewDad wrote:No, D&D geeks don't get their fictional characters confused they way you have.
(Bilbo was in the Hobbit and had some problems with nassty spiderses.)
Shelob.....grabs geek award from DD.
Shelob was in a cave.
Don't make me sing the attercop song....
<Grabs trophy and shoves Chai into a cobweb.>
all right you two.... that's MY precioussssssssss
Old fat spider spinning in a tree!
Old fat spider can't see me!
Attercop! Attercop!
Won't you stop,
Stop your spinning and look at me!
Old Tomnoddy, all big body,
Old Tomnoddy can't spy me!
Attercop! Attercop!
Down you drop!
You'll never catch me up your tree!
and of course Tomnoddy is insulting to anyone....
DrewDad wrote:Shelob was in a cave.
Don't make me sing the attercop song....
<Grabs>
ow...that got spiderwebs in my nose.
I'm tellin'
runs off to tell.....
Here's a one-spider show...
And another beautiful structure...
Stumble It!
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