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coluber2001
 
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Reply Tue 28 Mar, 2006 02:58 pm
littlek wrote:
I actually think I have the wrong one, but it's the closest I could find.

The coolest looking spider I've seen wild was a bright green one in deep woods - this is close to what it looked like:

http://www.uky.edu/Ag/CritterFiles/casefile/spiders/longjawed/orchard1.jpg


This looks like an orchard spider?-Leucauge venusta. Range: southern Canada to Panama. The web is more or less horizontal.
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shewolfnm
 
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Reply Tue 28 Mar, 2006 03:04 pm
http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/2738/spider5xx.jpg

We get TONS of these around here.

Gotta be the coolest spider I have ever seen.

and one of the only ones that i am not scared of.

( i took this picture about a year ago. This one was strung between 2 trees in the back yard. )
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coluber2001
 
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Reply Tue 28 Mar, 2006 03:20 pm
littlek wrote:
I actually think I have the wrong one, but it's the closest I could find.

The coolest looking spider I've seen wild was a bright green one in deep woods - this is close to what it looked like:

http://www.uky.edu/Ag/CritterFiles/casefile/spiders/longjawed/orchard1.jpg

This looks like the orchard spider?-Leucauge venusta. Range: southern Canada to Panama. The orb web is horizontal to 45 degrees.



Personality-wise, my favorites are the jumping spiders:
http://entweb.clemson.edu/cuentres/eiis/factshot/images/jumpingspider2.jpg

Check out the wheel spider of the Namib Desert of South Africa. It may the the only animal?-other than humans?-to form its body into a wheel shape for locomotion. http://www.able2know.com/forums/about23556-130.html Scroll down.
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rosborne979
 
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Reply Wed 29 Mar, 2006 09:47 pm
Spider silkis amazing stuff.
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sozobe
 
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Reply Wed 29 Mar, 2006 09:57 pm
Gotta love that googly-eyed spider face!
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Wed 29 Mar, 2006 10:03 pm
The jumpers do appear to have a lot of personality. They follow you around when you are in their territory, like they just want to know what you are up to. If you try to drive them off for their own good, they refuse to be driven. They may hide, but they continue to hang nearby.
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littlek
 
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Reply Wed 29 Mar, 2006 10:05 pm
I LOVE jumping spiders. They get a lot of excersize when they run into me.....

Coluber - I can't remember the web, but it was definitely at about 3' off the ground. Maybe I didn't see it because it was horizontal. I stood transfixed after I regained my exposure from having stopped so abruptly.
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roger
 
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Reply Wed 29 Mar, 2006 10:45 pm
Certainly looks personable.
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JLNobody
 
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Reply Wed 29 Mar, 2006 10:55 pm
Nah, just another pretty face.
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edgarblythe
 
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Reply Thu 30 Mar, 2006 05:52 am
You could picture that one on the carpet before the hearth, snoozing.
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JLNobody
 
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Reply Thu 30 Mar, 2006 07:44 pm
Or posing seductively?
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dyslexia
 
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Reply Thu 30 Mar, 2006 07:56 pm
i'm the kind of guy that uses a 12 gauge shotgun to get spiders on the ceiling. My roof leaks.
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JLNobody
 
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Reply Thu 30 Mar, 2006 09:38 pm
They kinda freak you out, Dys?
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littlek
 
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Reply Thu 30 Mar, 2006 09:42 pm
Ha! And, I'm the one who, at midnight, gets a tupperware, catches the spider, and escorts him outside..... or, into the basement in winter.
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JLNobody
 
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Reply Thu 30 Mar, 2006 09:50 pm
You're a bodhisattva, LittleK
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littlek
 
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Reply Thu 30 Mar, 2006 09:53 pm
bodhisattva? I know it's buddhism, but what more exactly?
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Eryemil
 
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Reply Thu 30 Mar, 2006 10:06 pm
A bodhisattva is a being motivated purely by compassion and love. They're humans who attain nirvana, but instead of moving on they remain on earth to alleviate suffering.

http://www.aloha.net/~ruth/QuanYin.gif
This is Quan Yin one of the most well known and beloved of the bodhisattva. She's thought of as the goddess of compassion. (She's also sort of my patroness, though I'm an atheist. Go figure)
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littlek
 
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Reply Thu 30 Mar, 2006 10:09 pm
Oh yeah, that's me! <snicker>.
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littlek
 
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Reply Thu 30 Mar, 2006 10:11 pm
Oh, pardon me, thanks for the info, Eryemil!
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Eryemil
 
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Reply Thu 30 Mar, 2006 10:14 pm
Anytime. Smile
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