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...

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

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

Cheers.

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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~Sue~

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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~Sue~

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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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

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.

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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~Sue~

A spider in my back yard. It's really difficult to photograph things tiny like this. ;-)

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~Sue~

A spider and its former meal on the left.

Is there supposed to be a photo?

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~Sue~

After a short time, my ladybug has emerged from its larval state. Soon it will fly off.

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~Sue~

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. ;-)

Crab Spider?

A spider and its former meal on the left.

Is there supposed to be a photo?

No, I was quoting your picture.

I didn't even notice the little bug.

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~Sue~

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. ;-)

I only know that it's some sort of orb weaver. Spiny orbweaver, from the pix I find when googling.

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~Sue~

Crab Spider?

No, I don't think so. Spiny orbweaver.

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~Sue~

The Moroccan Flic-Flac. No personal encounters - but a fine reason to enjoy a night-in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1hctUr0E14

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cebrennus_rechenbergi#Behavior

That's a great bug!

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The Moroccan Flic-Flac. No personal encounters - but a fine reason to enjoy a night-in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1hctUr0E14

They didn't show the bit at the end where it throws up.

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~Sue~