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The Spider

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Denburybob

Denburybob Report 15 Mar 2015 20:11

If you wish to live and thrive,
let a spider run alive.
Bob

Mayfield

Mayfield Report 14 Mar 2015 13:03

:-D :-D :-D

Researching:
Moribus facit homo,

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 14 Mar 2015 11:22

so it's not the spider version of a mancave, it's a nursery?

I've being calling "him" Boris............ should I change that to Borisina?

Mayfield

Mayfield Report 14 Mar 2015 10:54

Sounds like he is a she and building a nest for her eggs, you are going to be a spider granny to your adopted spider! :-D

Researching:
Moribus facit homo,

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 14 Mar 2015 06:36

:-) Sylvia ~ I'm keeping an eye on him.

He's better at predicting the weather than the Bureau of Meteorology :-)

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 14 Mar 2015 02:51

I'd take the warning he's giving you :-)

Researching:
My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 14 Mar 2015 01:13

If he came over to the deck he'd get squashed!

He's doing a great job out there, catching mozzies........ but he's definitely not welcome where we go!

His body & legs would be bigger than the palm of my hand.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 14 Mar 2015 00:27

He sounds lovely, LadyScozz :-D

....at least you can see him, he's not small and poisonous - though he may be huge and poisonous - but you can see him coming!.... :-D :-D :-D

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 14 Mar 2015 00:22

Oh, that sounds really lovely Scozz.

I wish I was there to see it.

With my catapult!! :-D

Researching:
"If I don't see you through the week.........I will see you through the window". :o))

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 14 Mar 2015 00:14

lol PH..... you'd like this one. His body is over 1" in dia, and I can see his eyes! Long legs, brown & black.

I've just been outside again, he's back in his web, spinning like crazy. The spider cave he made is interesting...... he curled an orchid leaf around and spun the web around it. Nice and cosy.

:-D

PricklyHolly

PricklyHolly Report 13 Mar 2015 23:58

What is it with you two talking about spiders at this time of night? :-| :-|

You know it gives me the willies!!

:-D :-D :-D Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Researching:
"If I don't see you through the week.........I will see you through the window". :o))

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 13 Mar 2015 23:46

....I think I would make/find a cave somewhere too....
Stay safe xx

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 13 Mar 2015 22:38

He's been in a big tree just outside our back deck for a couple of months.

His web is probably 6' in diameter, I've been watching him... fascinating... as long as he stays in the tree and doesn't head my way. :-) He's welcome, because he catches mosquitoes & other annoying bugs.

A couple of weeks ago we had torrential rain, the tailend of cyclone Marcia, and the spider disappeared...... and came back a couple of days later. Interesting.

This morning at 7.30 I went out on the deck with my morning coffee, and he wasn't in his usual spot in the middle of the web. The web was intact, no holes to show he might have been eaten by a bird.

I've just been out there again... and spotted him. He's making a "spider cave" in an orchid that's growing in the tree!

The sky is dark, and the wind is picking up........ I wonder what the spider knows?

I might take advice from the spider and move things again.