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Message 1955033 - Posted: 12 Sep 2018, 19:09:13 UTC

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Message 1955047 - Posted: 12 Sep 2018, 20:37:33 UTC - in response to Message 1955033.  

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...
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Message 1956607 - Posted: 21 Sep 2018, 5:52:22 UTC

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.

A giant web spanning 1,000ft has mysteriously appeared overnight in Aitoliko, a city in western Greece.

The spiders are from the genus Tetragnatha, known as stretch spiders due to their elongated bodies.

They are known to build webs near watery habitats, with some species even said to be able to walk on water.

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Message 1956621 - Posted: 21 Sep 2018, 8:26:48 UTC

The flies are starting to get around here as spring settles in. ;-)

But there's many more bugs to come here yet.

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Message 1956651 - Posted: 21 Sep 2018, 17:49:54 UTC - in response to Message 1942778.  

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.
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Message 1956711 - Posted: 22 Sep 2018, 0:44:51 UTC - in response to Message 1956621.  

The flies are starting to get around here as spring settles in. ;-)

But there's many more bugs to come here yet.

Cheers.

You have some unusual critters down under. I hope we'll get to see some pix of your bugs.
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Message 1956844 - Posted: 22 Sep 2018, 20:45:29 UTC

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.
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Message 1956865 - Posted: 23 Sep 2018, 0:21:42 UTC - in response to Message 1956844.  

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.

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. 🤢🤮
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Message 1956873 - Posted: 23 Sep 2018, 0:57:11 UTC - in response to Message 1956865.  
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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?

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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. 🤢🤮

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:

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Message 1956937 - Posted: 23 Sep 2018, 15:30:34 UTC

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.






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Message 1958375 - Posted: 4 Oct 2018, 14:40:17 UTC

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.
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Message 1959195 - Posted: 8 Oct 2018, 4:45:14 UTC
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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.




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Message 1959202 - Posted: 8 Oct 2018, 5:13:06 UTC - in response to Message 1959195.  

Cool Suzie-Q, I didn't know what their larvae looked like.
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Message 1959208 - Posted: 8 Oct 2018, 5:36:04 UTC
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A spider in my back yard. It's really difficult to photograph things tiny like this. ;-)


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Message 1959213 - Posted: 8 Oct 2018, 5:57:09 UTC - in response to Message 1959208.  

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Message 1960009 - Posted: 13 Oct 2018, 3:11:58 UTC - in response to Message 1959213.  

A spider and its former meal on the left.

Is there supposed to be a photo?
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Message 1960010 - Posted: 13 Oct 2018, 3:15:52 UTC
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After a short time, my ladybug has emerged from its larval state. Soon it will fly off.




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Message 1960017 - Posted: 13 Oct 2018, 3:57:58 UTC - in response to Message 1960009.  

A spider and its former meal on the left.

Is there supposed to be a photo?

No, I was quoting your picture.
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Message 1960019 - Posted: 13 Oct 2018, 4:19:59 UTC - in response to Message 1959208.  
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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. ;-)

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Message 1960021 - Posted: 13 Oct 2018, 4:58:21 UTC

Crab Spider?
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