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No web she pounced on it !



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She did well to catch her lunch so quickly :)

11 Jul, 2012

 

EEEEWWWWWWW!
Can't wait to see what Pixi says!

11 Jul, 2012

 

surely there is some suitable music to go with this!

11 Jul, 2012

 

What do you mean EEEEWWWWWWW! ? Pixi loves 'em Lol ;)

It's enough doing the pictures never mind the music Sticki.

11 Jul, 2012

 

how about this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ac4xamCIgY

or this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o29VoxtsFk

11 Jul, 2012

 

Of the two it would have to be the second... takes me back to a Saturday morning way back.

11 Jul, 2012

 

thats the one i had in mind!!!

11 Jul, 2012

 

That's gorgeous (I love spiders!)

11 Jul, 2012

 

I don't mind spiders either - it's toads that give me the creeps!

11 Jul, 2012

 

Hello Sheilar... I have thousands of them :) Amazing when I think how many bugs crawlies are in my little yard.

I've not seen a toad for years W/Rose.

11 Jul, 2012

 

I was lying reading in bed the other night when I saw something out of the corner of my eye. Next to my head on the pillow was a big black spider!! I carefully got hold of him and put him out of the window. When I told the women at work, they were squealing in horror!!

11 Jul, 2012

 

Sheilar . . . you are BRAVE. I'm with the squealers, lol!

11 Jul, 2012

 

Spiders move thats what gets me!

11 Jul, 2012

 

This one is one of the jumping spiders 'Marpissa muscosa' Drc.... It leaps on it's prey, with lightening speed.

11 Jul, 2012

 

Aww, Denise, they're harmless (unless you're a fly!!)

11 Jul, 2012

 

You must send some of these piccies off Pimps, they are fab! :-)

11 Jul, 2012

 

It's not very good Willi , Google jumping spider and see how cute they are.

11 Jul, 2012

 

What you on about? its a great action pic & the green background of shiny leaves, excellent.

11 Jul, 2012

 

Jumpers, I wont be able to sleep tonight now!

11 Jul, 2012

 

Do they have 4 eyes or are they large nostrils, Lol

11 Jul, 2012

 

spiders have 8 eyes willi!!!

http://www.mdavid.com.au/spiders/eyes.shtml

11 Jul, 2012

 

They have eight eyes...First they calculate the distance of their prey, then they spin a bungee line of the right length just in case they miss. Then they leap up to 40 times their body length. They can take prey bigger than themselves.

11 Jul, 2012

 

where did you find this one pimms?

11 Jul, 2012

 

This is on my tree fern Stiki.

11 Jul, 2012

 

8 ! 8 ! They look like buttons on his coat, Lol.

11 Jul, 2012

 

is that tree fern leaves i can see [all lovely and shiny] ~ how big is that spider?

11 Jul, 2012

 

OMG completely traumatised....I have faced many fears head on (was standing on 20 beer crates the other day at a team building event and I'm scared of heights). But the eight legged horrors give me the heebee jeebies big time, def not following this thread anymore!!

11 Jul, 2012

 

we have had snails, slugs and spiders this week!!!!

11 Jul, 2012

 

Yes, near the tips...She is not very big just over a centimetre.

11 Jul, 2012

 

ah ~ and there was i thinking you had discovered some exotic 3" spider in your garden????

11 Jul, 2012

 

Don't mind smooth things such as snakes, but anything multi-legged and furry...... :0

11 Jul, 2012

 

Don't you get Skink's where you are Lil ? That would be a great pic

11 Jul, 2012

 

Skinks???

11 Jul, 2012

 

Ha Ha Skinks! Thats a good word, Lol

11 Jul, 2012

 

Skink's.....lol it's like a newt or gecko

11 Jul, 2012

 

Is it his accent I'm not getting?? Or does he have a mouthful???? ;)))

11 Jul, 2012

 

Oh dear, you seem to be getting two blogs merged here Lil, Lol

11 Jul, 2012

 

http://www.carcnet.ca/english/reptiles/species_accounts/lizards/Pl_septentrionalis/p_septentrionalis2.php

11 Jul, 2012

 

Willi!!!!!! STOP IT!!!!! LOL, LOL, LMAO!!!!

Thanks for the link Pimp. Yes, this type of beastie is right up my alley, smooth and pretty colours. Problem is, I'm not on the prairies! Big country over here ;)

11 Jul, 2012

 

He He He

11 Jul, 2012

 

Great picture!!!

12 Jul, 2012

 

Wow - I like the Skink almost as much as my blue-headed lizard :))

(Is there ANYTHING Pimm's doesn't know about the natural world??!!)

12 Jul, 2012

 

blimey great pic Pimms,

12 Jul, 2012

 

Incredible pic - that you happeend to be there with camera ready at the right moment is even more incredible. This sort of thing happens all the time, everywhere, but how many people manage to get such excellent pics of it??

12 Jul, 2012

 

Had to stop reading this when I reached the spider on Sheilar's pillow! Fantastic photo and fascinating creatures, but they 'freak me out'.

12 Jul, 2012

 

Excellent shot!

12 Jul, 2012

 

I truly don't get fazed by many animals, and have stroked a cheetah and cradled a python, but spiders!!!!!!! It's irrational, I know, but I HATE the bu**ers. I can sit and watch 'em for hours - they're really beautiful, but if it moves a muscle, I'm out of there, and have been known to scream a lot, too while I'm running! It's the big, black, beefy ones I particularly hate. This one's quite cute.

14 Jul, 2012

 

Totally awesome! :-))

16 Jul, 2012

 

I gotta put comment # 48- Gruesome! Red eyes on the little blood sucker!

26 Jul, 2012



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