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Post by Louise on Jun 3, 2022 5:35:28 GMT
This isn't my own image but it could be. Like this image shows one on a Cistus flower, the one i saw was on one of my Cistus, here. They're a creepy looking thing, very small at about 4mm and it had a buff tailed bumble bee in its mouth/grips ..... apparently they'll take on prey much larger than itself by injecting their own 'venom' into the poor thing. My sister saw a lot of them last summer in their garden but this was the first time i'd seen one, i don't want to see another one if it means they catch all my, various, bees 😠🤬  |
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Post by SueA on Jun 3, 2022 8:12:32 GMT
I've never seen one of those here, well camouflaged isn't it!  |
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Post by steve on Jun 3, 2022 12:15:58 GMT
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Post by Eli on Jun 5, 2022 1:52:31 GMT
Here's one I saw in my garden a few days ago. I see lots of them here, and also dead bees   |
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Post by SueA on Jun 5, 2022 7:29:34 GMT
They're fascinating aren't they but hope they don't head for our garden! |
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Post by balc2 on Jun 6, 2022 15:28:09 GMT
They're fascinating aren't they but hope they don't head for our garden!  I've never actually seen one myself but I have seen pictures of them & a video, not all that long ago. As SueA says they're fascinating & I have never liked spiders! I do find them interesting - while they don't come anywhere near me! I can watch one close up - on the other side of glass!  So I don't have a phobia of spiders (arachnophobia) I just can't stand them being close to me!
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Post by SueA on Jun 7, 2022 7:11:09 GMT
I'm not bothered by spiders balc2 - I've actually held a tarantula once at a 'meet the creatures' open day at a garden centre where they had an 'oasis' section full of reptiles, spiders, fish etc. - it was quite prickly!  |
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Post by seaburn on Jun 9, 2022 13:12:15 GMT
They are crab spiders and my daughter photographed lots when she was in South Wales on placement at Parc Slip nature reserve. There was one with a grasshopper in her mouth.
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Post by balc2 on Jun 9, 2022 15:57:25 GMT
SueA, when I was growing up in London we lived in a house with an outside toilet. Very often there would be great big spiders on the door of the toilet, as well as inside it! I would only go in there out of pure desperation! Many a time I had to go back several times till I finally couldn't possibly wait a single moment more. We laugh at these things now but at the time it caused me a lot of distress! A few months after we got married, we were living in my wife's town, in Spain, a lady friend of ours let us use her house for a few months while we looked for a place of our own. There was a lot of garden around the house & she asked me if I would look after the garden while we lived there. One day an ENORMOUS black spider got into the bathtub, it made the "big" spiders in London look like Lilliputians! I was frozen, I didn't know how to get rid of it without it "attacking" me. My wife came into the bathroom & took one look at the spider & started to laugh at my fear! She got rid of it but to this day I don't know what she did! Over the years she has had to remove spiders from our houses as I can't get near them. Though I have lost a lot of this fear & I can even sleep now even knowing there's a spider in the bedroom - something I couldn't do years ago! I can kill them - at a distance! I can even watch fascinated as a "money spider" craws over the hairs on my arm (I'm very fair & the hair on my arms is very short & almost invisible) yet a normal sized spider I can't get close to! But it's not arachnophobia as I can watch them, (but not touch them!), & find them fascinating creatures!
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Post by geumgrower on Jun 9, 2022 16:44:37 GMT
I know how you feel. I feel the same way about earwigs. Can deal with them in the garden, but in the house.......brave wife.
She one hung my white summer trousers on the washing line and left them out over night. They were alive with earwigs next morning. My mother and her spent ages picking them off. Made no difference I never wore those trousers again.
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So I don't have a phobia of spiders (arachnophobia) I just can't stand them being close to me! 
