There are Spiders and then there is:

I looked at the face before the title and thought "Spider-Aardvark doesn't really flow off the tongue."

Well I'd hate trying to come up with the equivalent to Peter Porker for an Aardvark character.

Peter Anteater?

(snort)

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~Sue~

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~Sue~

I've had at least a flamethrower one in my kitchen sink all week. Not doing much.

What's the one with the yellow?

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David
Sitting on my butt while others boldly go,
Waiting for a message from a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri.

I've had at least a flamethrower one in my kitchen sink all week. Not doing much.

What's the one with the yellow?

I have no idea.

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~Sue~

It could be an orb weaver as they can get quite large.

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What's the one with the yellow?

Way too big!

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I searched google and google images for a spider that looks
like that one - black with a yellow mark on the abdomen. The
only one I saw that was close was the black and yellow
argiope.

I didn't assume the spiders depicted in the comic were based
on anything real, except for the black widow.

As you know, the black widow is found in the US. I don't know
if it's common in Australia or not, or in any other country
outside of the western hemisphere.

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~Sue~

That is what I came up with too.

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I dreamed about argiope spiders last night. I dreamed
there were three of them that had webs inside a house.
I grabbed one and took it outside, but the other two
got away.

This is not the weirdest thing that happens in my dreams.

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~Sue~

Black widows were very common in Southern Africa. They're also not that big. Thatched roofing is a favourite indoor habitat for them and dropping on people in the middle of the night, then getting annoyed about the effort of having to get back up to their nest, was a lot of the reason people would get bitten I reckon... our neighbour did. Bit her on the hand and she nearly lost her arm. :(

But I don't mind spiders. I prefer not to get surprised by them though. I had one a few weeks ago that must have been walking along the back of the couch and popped into my hair for a quick look around. Ticklish and rather large - I did squeal a bit :) popped him/her in the broom cupboard I don't keep brooms in to save her/him from my cats...

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oh...and did we say we like humans too? Well we do :)

No idea what this is. It's the first one I've seen. I tried to
find it on google but couldn't. It appears to be missing one
antenna. It's quite shiny. Every time I tried to take a picture
of the front of the bug it would turn away from me.

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~Sue~

First thought was one of the many "rhinoceros beetles", but the antenna just doesn't look right....
Fabulous colours :-)
(and its shy)

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Bob Smith
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Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

I should have added that it's quite small - less than one centimeter
(or less than 1/2 inch).

No idea what this is. It's the first one I've seen. I tried to
find it on google but couldn't. It appears to be missing one
antenna. It's quite shiny. Every time I tried to take a picture
of the front of the bug it would turn away from me.

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~Sue~

I had that in my sig file for a short time. It pissed off so many
people that I was "asked" to remove it.

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~Sue~

I had that in my sig file for a short time. It pissed off so many
people that I was "asked" to remove it.

Yes it's quite annoying after a while so I will ask the mods to remove them.
If it was that easy to remove bugs from computer programs... :)

It reminds me a bit of what we used to call stinkbugs when I was little - some of which can be very colourful - aka shield or chust bugs - apparently.

edit: I never actually smelled their wiffyness because I never killed any :)

Hi Suzie... I think I have positively ID it as a Shining Flea Beetle:
http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2011/04/04/shining-flea-beetle-2/

Metallic blue and orange bug/beetle
Location: Central Texas
April 3, 2011 10:42 pm
I found him on the porch, he is pretty small. I have never seen one like it, we live in Central TX.

This appears to be a Shining Flea Beetle, Asphaera lustrans, which we quickly identified on BugGuide. Many Flea Beetles from the tribe Alticini as well as other Leaf Beetles in the family Chrysomelidae are considered to be significant agricultural pests. The host plants of this Shining Flea Beetle are listed as Scullcap and Willow. BugGuide notes this interesting remark: “In Florida this is sometimes called the Gator beetle – due to the orange and blue-black colors approximating those of the UF Gators.”

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Hi Suzie... I think I have positively ID it as a Shining Flea Beetle:
http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2011/04/04/shining-flea-beetle-2/

Metallic blue and orange bug/beetle
Location: Central Texas
April 3, 2011 10:42 pm
I found him on the porch, he is pretty small. I have never seen one like it, we live in Central TX.

This appears to be a Shining Flea Beetle, Asphaera lustrans, which we quickly identified on BugGuide. Many Flea Beetles from the tribe Alticini as well as other Leaf Beetles in the family Chrysomelidae are considered to be significant agricultural pests. The host plants of this Shining Flea Beetle are listed as Scullcap and Willow. BugGuide notes this interesting remark: “In Florida this is sometimes called the Gator beetle – due to the orange and blue-black colors approximating those of the UF Gators.”

YES! That's it!

Thank you.

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~Sue~

I had that in my sig file for a short time. It pissed off so many
people that I was "asked" to remove it.

My dad used to have a early version of a OS that looked like Windows. He downloaded a app called "roaches". You started the app and saw some roaches run across the screen and hide under the icons. You just click and jiggle a icon and two or three roaches would run and hide under another icon.

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