calling any one from missouri

[OhZark Biddies]

Looks like the risk of finding a stinging caterpillar in Missouri is a bit rare. However in the southern states the risk is much higher and having lived on and near the gulf coast many times once stung I never forget!

JT

Something like what @karenerwin described are the ones I look out for... I’ve seen a few this year ... I just searched and came up with “tussock moth” caterpillar as the name

https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/tussock-moths

 

[OhZark Biddies]

This is Fred. He builds his webs outside the back door, and invariably we walk thru part of it each morning. But he doesn't give up. He stays out of the middle of the walk zone, and even if he loses a strand, the web is still usable. Here he is repairing the damage yet again.....
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@SueT have you figured out what kind of spidey crawler Fred is?

We have a few of his type on our front porch .... I haven’t looked to see what kind they are, but the mail lady brought the new MDC magazine today and it has an aticle about wolf spiders:

https://mdc.mo.gov/conmag/2019-10

 

[jthornton]

I was walking to the butt end of a black oak to measure off some logs and almost walked right into this guy right at face level! Scared the crap out of me!

About 16" long maybe and the size of my finger but when you don't expect to run into a rat snake in the branches it makes you jump back even if you don't jump anymore.


JT

 

[doublecrossranch]

Welcome from Smithville! I don't post on here too much either, just trying to get a feel for it and relatively new in the chicken business. I just read, soak it all in and then worry I am doing things wrong! I am driving my hubby crazy with "Well, I read..." lol

I’m in smithville!! I think I know you.
Erica

 

[doublecrossranch]

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What a small world it is. Our surname is Young, moved away in the late eighties. My father was a loan officer at the Bank of Sullivan.
Believe it or not I ran into the High PE coach from Sullivan a few weeks ago. He is now coaching in Gower, MO -- just north of here..

I’m in Smithville also! Im new so sorry for the 11 year gap

 

[SueT]

@SueT have you figured out what kind of spidey crawler Fred is?

We have a few of his type on our front porch .... I haven’t looked to see what kind they are, but the mail lady brought the new MDC magazine today and it has an aticle about wolf spiders:

https://mdc.mo.gov/conmag/2019-10

I haven't figured it out, but it isn't a wolf spider.....

 

[OhZark Biddies]

I haven't figured it out, but it isn't a wolf spider.....

Yeah definitely not wolf spiders... but the article on those was interesting...,

This is one of the Fred style spiders we’ve been seeing... this one was on the bee hive up here by the house... she got relocated to a tree nearby so she wouldn’t be catching hard working bees ...

This is what it looks like when a guard bee comes at my phone when I’m trying to take spider glamour shots, lol

Like JT I can still jump... just not as high as I used to

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I haven't figured it out, but it isn't a wolf spider.....

Sue I think it's just a yellow garden spider. . same as mine a week or so ago.

 

[SueT]

Sue I think it's just a yellow garden spider. . same as mine a week or so ago. View attachment 1919746 View attachment 1919747

I don't think it's the same tho...we do have the yellow garden spiders too. They make a zipper in their web, and they are colorful, w vibrant yellow markings. I'll try to get photo of Fred from the top view...
edit to add photo, see it's mostly a dull brown with very pale yellow stripes on legs. Every time I go out there, he retreats to the pole. After googling midwest spiders, I think it may be a type of 'orb weaver'

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I don't think it's the same tho...we do have the yellow garden spiders too. They make a zipper in their web, and they are colorful, w vibrant yellow markings. I'll try to get photo of Fred from the top view...
edit to add photo, see it's mostly a dull brown with very pale yellow stripes on legs. Every time I go out there, he retreats to the pole. After googling midwest spiders, I think it may be a type of 'orb weaver'
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Oh. .whoops. . ya I misunderstood which spider we was talkin bout. That's one isn't even pretty.
Kill it!