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Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 30608 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
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anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!!!!!!!!!!.... oooooh noooooooooooo the shudders have got me....... I hope they haven't been burrowing. I was estimating its probable size on an above ground basis. I wonder if its time for me to emigrate again... |
Dr Who Fan Send message Joined: 8 Jan 01 Posts: 3191 Credit: 715,342 RAC: 4 |
Huge 1000ft spider web appears overnight on a beach in Greece AN ENORMOUS and terrifying spider web has sprung up in Greece overnight, covering everything from trees to shrubs near a lagoon. A tranquil beachfront has been transformed by the starving spiders. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
The flies are starting to get around here as spring settles in. ;-) But there's many more bugs to come here yet. Cheers. |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
We have those out in Barstow CA, they must have to fly for miles and miles from any water here in the desert, the Mojave river around there is underground, though before the flood control dam was installed the river out here wasn't so dry, the closer to the Mojave Narrows one gets, the more likely one is to finding water on the surface these days. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3324 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
The flies are starting to get around here as spring settles in. ;-) You have some unusual critters down under. I hope we'll get to see some pix of your bugs. ~Sue~ |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
I just found some bugs in an opened oatmeal container, there are another 7 that were opened cause of bad Amazon packing and delivered by UPS, I'd thought I'd fixed the problem, when and if I do this again I'll have a few 20 cup Tupperware containers on hand and not rely on paper, My thread says more on this and no I don't have any pics, needless to say one container had at about a dozen or so, even 1 is too much, and 42oz Oatmeal containers via Amazon again? Not likely. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3324 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
I just found some bugs in an opened oatmeal container, there are another 7 that were opened cause of bad Amazon packing and delivered by UPS, I'd thought I'd fixed the problem, when and if I do this again I'll have a few 20 cup Tupperware containers on hand and not rely on paper, My thread says more on this and no I don't have any pics, needless to say one container had at about a dozen or so, even 1 is too much, and 42oz Oatmeal containers via Amazon again? Well that sucks! Did you contact Amazon? Once when I lived in Germany I bought some rice from a German store. I left it in its plastic bag in my pantry for a while. One day I found thousands of little brown bugs crawling in and around my pantry. I traced them to that bag of rice. I never bought German rice again. Apparently, in America, we clean our rice (or something like that) so we don't end up with bugs if we don't eat the rice right away. And I thought about that, too - eating the rice right away. If I had, I'd have ingested the little eggs that must have been in the rice. 🤢🤮 ~Sue~ |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
I just found some bugs in an opened oatmeal container, there are another 7 that were opened cause of bad Amazon packing and delivered by UPS, I'd thought I'd fixed the problem, when and if I do this again I'll have a few 20 cup Tupperware containers on hand and not rely on paper, My thread says more on this and no I don't have any pics, needless to say one container had at about a dozen or so, even 1 is too much, and 42oz Oatmeal containers via Amazon again? Back then? No, I taped everything up, thought I'd got all the holes, wrong, and it wasn't much lost at first, some was in the box too. I didn't lose much money, so what can I say. I cleaned everything out and found more, the only places that had no bugs were in steel cans or in resealable plastic bags, like Krusteaz pancakes will use at some retailers, I had 2 bags like below, neither had any insects or signs of insects. Usually one would have to ship back the packages, so it was not worth it to Me. Like this one: The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22158 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
At the marina we have a fair collection of spiders and spider webs. Every morning the cleaners remove the webs from around the lights, but every evening the spiders put them back. The other night I went out with a camera and grabbed a few shots of the rebuilding process. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Richard Haselgrove Send message Joined: 4 Jul 99 Posts: 14649 Credit: 200,643,578 RAC: 874 |
Photobomb! Mystery insect interrupts interview Sorry to say, it looks like a perfectly normal ladybird to me - I've got them on my windows too. |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3324 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
I have ladybug larvae around my house all summer. I've never paid much attention to them except to note how they look like something I might have seen in a sci-fi movie (except much, much larger). A couple of days ago one of these things attached itself to my back door (sliding glass door) to start the process of turning into a ladybug. I'm always excited to experience nature up close, even when it's something this small. My iPhone took some fairly good pictures, so here are two of them. I have no idea how long it will be before it becomes a fully independent ladybug, if ever. It may not survive. We'll see. I guess I should mention that the larva is, at the very most, only about one centimeter (3/4") long or less. ~Sue~ |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
Cool Suzie-Q, I didn't know what their larvae looked like. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3324 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
A spider in my back yard. It's really difficult to photograph things tiny like this. ;-) ~Sue~ |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
A spider and its former meal on the left. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3324 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
A spider and its former meal on the left. Is there supposed to be a photo? ~Sue~ |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3324 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
After a short time, my ladybug has emerged from its larval state. Soon it will fly off. ~Sue~ |
zoom3+1=4 Send message Joined: 30 Nov 03 Posts: 65709 Credit: 55,293,173 RAC: 49 |
A spider and its former meal on the left. No, I was quoting your picture. The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's |
cRunchy Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 3555 Credit: 1,920,030 RAC: 3 |
That is an amazing and interesting spider type. Body shape is quite unique. Do you know what it's 'official' name is? Is it edible?.. (Just in case one travels 6000km and decides to creep into my mouth whilst I am sleeping.. ) Good macro. A spider in my back yard. It's really difficult to photograph things tiny like this. ;-) |
Stargate (SA) Send message Joined: 4 Mar 10 Posts: 1854 Credit: 2,258,721 RAC: 0 |
Crab Spider? |
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