Wildlife

[Jong Lafitte]

Yall, my LNT spider didn’t take her web down this morning. Dang. Maybe it’s the turn coming? She takes the web down every morning without fail since June 1st when I first saw her, hides all day under the eve, then rebuilds this beautiful web every night. Last tenant just stayed all day, looked like the same species. “Common Orb?”

This is her in the daytime spot:



Here’s the best I could do to try to show the web (you can see the spider upper right):



Thing gives me the creeps. Obviously can’t hang there though the winter but it sure has been neat to have it around.

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[babybear]

sorry about the death of your pet spider

[Jong Lafitte]

sorry about the death of your pet spider

She’s a guest BB, Wink, not a pet; but I know nothing of the life cycle of these terrifying critters. Id be sad if you are serious but that’s how it goes I reckon. Intriguing little critter to observe through the season tho.


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[PB]

Is that large web mass on the grey/charcoal post an egg mass or just a large, sucked dry bug carcass?

[Jong Lafitte]

Is that large web mass on the grey/charcoal post an egg mass or just a large, sucked dry bug carcass?

My best guess is the latter, it’s been there for a while. I ain’t getting too close tho. I once busted an egg mass and all the little fuckers came down my arm, I jumped off a 15 foot ladder. Had a client once got bit when he got a bunch of baby black widows (brown recluse maybe I don’t remember exactly but venomous) on his arm. Put him in the hospital. The necrotic smell of this dudes arm was almost unbearable just sitting in the same room. SHUDDER.

Here’s another one I was at my ex in-laws in Manor, TX and there was a mother spider just trooping on across the lawn with like a thousand little babies on her back. She looked back up at me like “WUT?!?” Holy fucking shit even conjuring the image gives me the willies.


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[crashtestdummy]

Baby cat face spiders on my window screen, taken in 2016.

[babybear]

DISGUSTING. I really detest spiders although I usually let them go about their business since they target other bugs.
Similar situation-once my mom was sweeping and must have caught a spider egg sac with the broom bc all of a sudden there were hundreds of tiny spiders running everywhere 🤢

[Jong Lafitte]

Baby cat face spiders on my window screen, taken in 2016.

They are almost cute really. I love spiders but they cause this irrational reaction. I’d literally jump out of an aircraft to avoid those little fuckers. Almost out of spite. Like, I’d just hit the ground and die rather than having you little assholes freak me out for even one second. They do get to live in and around my place tho. The mayflies are collateral damage, fuck mosquitoes. I try to encourage the indoor resident spiders to stay out of site, kinda the rule.


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[plugboots]

Mrs. Plug brought a broom from Winthrop to Issaquah and a black widow crawled out. It lives in Issaquah now.

[Shredhead]

This guys been hanging on the deck.

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

doooood. that's the messenger.

[old goat]

Why are there spiders in my sink all the time. Do they have a predilection for sinks or do they just fall in and can't get out?

[I Skied Bandini Mountain]

They actually need water and are looking for a drink. And yes they then can't get out. I like spiders, I'm always rescuing them.

[old goat]

They actually need water and are looking for a drink. And yes they then can't get out. I like spiders, I'm always rescuing them.

me too. my wife hates them though, mainly because she hates spider webs.

[XXX-er]

GF had a really big (size of your thumb) bumble bee that a grad student had left in the BnB, so it was livivng in the kitchen for a bit, cuz it was so big it would fly around really slow especialy if it was cold, it was fed sugar water, sounds kind of wierd but it was neat

[stapes]

Ran into this guy on a run the other day
Red tail?

[rideit]

The place where “Florida Man” and Jackson Hole intersect…

https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/news/...bc4535b8e.html

[Marshall Tucker]

While we are on the subject

[babybear]

The place where “Florida Man” and Jackson Hole intersect…

https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/news/...bc4535b8e.html

I think that guy works where we play tennis. He kinda seemed like a dipshit if same guy, so not terribly surprised

[::: :::]

Big brown bears fighting in Kuhmo, Finland. The fight took place near the bear hides operated by Boreal Wildlife Centre. Check out the full trip (eng sub): https://youtu.be/e-JgjYuPIsM

[JimmyCarter]

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[rideit]

Nothing like biting a Grizzly Bear’s ass!

https://www.facebook.com/10004827450...2321396030115/

[KQ]

Good skunk! Dug up a ground bee nest. Woot! One of my horses got stung on the muzzle the other day. Very glad to have this gone with no effort on my part.

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[old goat]

Skunks dig up bees' nests and I assume eat the bees? That takes some toughness.

[KQ]

Skunks dig up bees' nests and I assume eat the bees? That takes some toughness.

Yup. Love them. Great horned owls are pretty much their only threat (they have little or no sense of smell). Less than 5 percent of skunk mortality is caused by predators.

Here's another shot. They went to town. So nice because those nests are in vole homes with many exits which makes them hard to deal with.