A beautiful widow......(you may find her creepy)

[rooster-red]

Told you we have a ton of black widows around here, so I took my camera outside a few minutes ago, and here she is:

 

[rooster-red]

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Sorry, but thats a myth.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.asp

 

[luvmychicknkids]

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Oh she is lovely! I can't imagine being able to just go find one whenever...well, except this new one since I now know where she lives.

Thanks for posting her pic.

 

[EllyMae]

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Is that her eggs to the left...looks like spider web and something under it?

 

[rooster-red]

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Is that her eggs to the left...looks like spider web and something under it?

I think it is, she moved very little from the time I turned over the wheel until I took her pic, then I just turned the tire back over.

 

[EllyMae]

That is egg collecting...Halloween style, lol.

 

[riderbecky]

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Haven't read the whole thread yet...so apologies if I'm duplicating info...

Mosquitoes are pollinators. Mostly they are flitting from flower to flower drinking nector. Only the female bites because she needs a blood meal to nourish her eggs.

This doesn't mean I like getting bit...most times I swat, muttering B**ch.

Spiders, I really don't like. We have eave spiders here that spin these gorgeous webs but they are huge....actually I think they are what "Charlotte" was...and so thats what I call them..."Charlotte, you just stay nice and cozy in your web, and its all good **gulp**"

 

[luvmychicknkids]

I had no idea that mosquitoes actually help with pollination. There are so many others who do that don't eat me, though.

Right now I look like I am diseased from all the bites and feel like a mosquito pin cushion so I will squish any one I see!!! Yeah, I knew the males don't bite. I have actually had a whole swarm of the males get in my car when I forgot to close the window one evening....and not a single bite.

 

[wegotchickens]

Sorry, but I'd rather paint each tomato blossom with a dry paintbrush than deal with skeeters. Darn skeeters didn't pollinate my maters when we had the bad honey bee die off a few years ago...

 

[riderbecky]

Funny this topic should be here today. I just glanced over at my Ripley's Believe it or Not day calendar and it has and interesting bit of info....

"Middle Eastern Camel Spiders grow to 6 inches in diameter and can run up to 10 miles an hour!"

Just thought I'd share...and now that I have the heebie jeebies...I'll toddle off to bed.