Spiders

Piffka
I know what you mean, but just the thought of possibe huge spiders near me would ruin me, LOL!

I bet the horse was scared! In a case like that it's wondering what the horse is gonna do that freaks you out.

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I will be trying to find out more about those spiders, Montana, believe me! (If I do, I'll be sure and tell you.)

The horse was startled, but he was such a good horse that he only sidled a little bit off the trail and would have kept going. We stopped to listen to the snake and he kept his back feet far away from the pile of brush that was rattling. The horse's name, btw, was "Big Dick"... no kidding! Wink

He was about 17 1/2 hands high - really tall - a part-Percheron. I had to drop the stirrups to get up, then raise them back to the right length for my short legs.

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Why didn't you just carry a little rope ladder?

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Montana - chances are you would never see any of the fearsome fauna if you came to Oz! We don't have the nasty funnelwebs where I live - but I have spent long periods in Sydney and never seen one.

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dlowan wrote:

Why didn't you just carry a little rope ladder?

heehee -- I didn't even think of that. Maybe a lariat with a loop would have worked....

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eoe-
Yes, the horned tomato caterpillars are horrible. And they can kill the plant real fast. Hope that you have some parasitic wasps around. If you see one of those guys with white things sticking out of its back, leave it alone. The parasitic wasps (good guys) are doing their thing and the bad guy is as good as dead.

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Piffka wrote:

I will be trying to find out more about those spiders, Montana, believe me! (If I do, I'll be sure and tell you.)

The horse was startled, but he was such a good horse that he only sidled a little bit off the trail and would have kept going. We stopped to listen to the snake and he kept his back feet far away from the pile of brush that was rattling. The horse's name, btw, was "Big Dick"... no kidding! He was about 17 1/2 hands high - really tall - a part-Percheron. I had to drop the stirrups to get up, then raise them back to the right length for my short legs.

That's one big horsey all right. I bet he's beautiful. LOL on the Big Dick :-D

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dlowan wrote:

Montana - chances are you would never see any of the fearsome fauna if you came to Oz! We don't have the nasty funnelwebs where I live - but I have spent long periods in Sydney and never seen one.

I'm sure you're right, but with my luck I probably would. There's also the flying thing that I can't get around <sigh>

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Arachnid Arrival

The ongoing heat wave across Europe is believed to have brought out an infestation of poisonous spiders never seen before in Romania. One man died and 11 others were hospitalized after being bitten by the unidentified arachnids, which first appeared on the country's Black Sea coast. Doctors said the spider bites triggered headaches, dizziness and muscle spasms. Medical and insect experts in Constanta were examining some of the spiders, said to look like the black widow variety found in the Americas.

(From Earthweek)

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Cav, that's horrible! People said that with Global Warming, there could be changes in resident populations of various creepy crawlers. <shudder>

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Add rain and humidity and you have the perfect recipe for an explosion of creepy crawling and flying things. It is bug city here in eastern NC.

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Oh Boy!!! That's all we need are more bugs <sigh>

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yikes...I HATE SPIDERS...been reading through this thread...I WILL NOT look at the pictures, thank you....I can take the little ones, and grand daddy long legs....just reading all of this makes my skin all crawly...

what's that on the back of my neck, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!! Embarrassed

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Hi Petunia - I see you're one of us! Welcome to a2k!

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LOL Petunia! I know exactly how you feel. Welcome to A2K :-D

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And petunia is a soon to be ex-smoker.

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From what I can remember of my uni zoology course, spiders have hydraulic legs (if you break their carapace, they can't run and leak to death...) and their lungs look like a slightly-open upside-down book. Their nearest relatives are scorpions, crabs & lobsters. The things looking like boxing gloves in front of their heads are the sperm-depositors of the males. And they have 8 eyes (I think).

Not scary, not funny, but merely interesting...!

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