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dpack
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dpack
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gz
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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Mistress Rose
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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wishus
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dpack
Joined: 02 Jul 2005 Posts: 45374 Location: yes
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buzzy wrote: |
buzzy wrote: |
dpack, you have this photography business well and truly sussed. I'm pretty certain your charming spider is the Zebra Spider (Salticus scenicus). Supposedly usually found on walls - is there one close to your mint?
It is alleged to be possible to get them to take aphids from a pair of fine forceps. Their eyes, as well as numerous, are very sharp. Somebody is watching you.
Henry |
Best not try feeding them these chaps
https://influentialpoints.com/Gallery/Stomaphis_wojciechowskii_Pale_giant_oak_aphid.htm
and take note, peeps. There are scary things out there. If you go down to the woods today...……….
Henry |
gulp those aphids are huge and a bit different.
the zebras do live on/in the walls(the mint is on a window sill) , i am quite fond of them, no bother, fun to watch and they eat the mint aphids which only the most deranged sparrows do
(mind aphids are ok in a mint sauce but as an entrée they are a bit toothpasty)
re snaps , not yet but i try to improve as i go along
papping inverts is sort of ok, but for good snaps with ones that move a lot, i recon "hold the area, bait n wait for them" might give better images
a bit like fishing with a string
the big spiders that live in the woodshed are next on the list, this years have 3 homes i know of, 2 of which are ripe for snapping
i have an electro bat to catch flies to use as payment for the photoshoot, tweezers they would pull me in and wrap me up:lol:
fierce but relatively harmless as sheet web things go
the ones that live in the cracks of the shiplap on the big shed are a little more worrying, i am pretty sure i saw false widows last year
i am also pretty convinced it must have been one of those that bit me on the ings a few years ago, well up on the Schmidt sting pain index plus a few days of serious swelling etc from 2 tiny holes.
it stung briefly but not for long when it happened but nowt to see and it eased rapidly, a few hours later it was not unlike nasty but not dead rattlesnake bite snaps and was pretty unpleasant for nearly a week. |
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dpack
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Mistress Rose
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dpack
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buzzy
Joined: 04 Jan 2011 Posts: 3708 Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds
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dpack
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dpack
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dpack
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