Small holes in dirt?

[DwayneNLiz]

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[perchie.girl]

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Great pix.... and info. Where have you been.... Missed you on the pond.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Great pix.... and info. Where have you been.... Missed you on the pond.

so busy!!!
but i am working on the pond, i'll get there

 

[perchie.girl]

 

[Wyorp Rock]

I was pestering one out in the front yard when I was about sixteen... Just gently redirecting its travel so I could see it better... Mom called out from the kitchen... Be Careful Tarantulas can jump about three feet... she went on doing dishes.... Dont know if its true but I stopped messing with it after that.... LOL.

deb

LOL I would probably pester one just to see if it could jump that far

We have these little tiny spiders that I call jumping spiders - their sort of fuzzy - I just love to watch them and pester them - they will back, back, back, then finally put of their front legs, then if you antagonize them a leeeetle bit more, they pounce - LOL (it's pitiful, I've done this since I was a kid and well, close to 1/2 a century later, I still do it)
but of course, these are not Tarantulas either!

btw - @DwayneNLiz great link!

 

[mstailfeathers]

I have similar holes this time of year near my coop. It is usually mice or vols (of the mole family) I put DE down the hole and out popped a mice and it was a treat for one of my chickens with everyone else running after her. I have also put DE down the holes with success.

 

[perchie.girl]

LOL I would probably pester one just to see if it could jump that far

We have these little tiny spiders that I call jumping spiders - their sort of fuzzy - I just love to watch them and pester them - they will back, back, back, then finally put of their front legs, then if you antagonize them a leeeetle bit more, they pounce - LOL (it's pitiful, I've done this since I was a kid and well, close to 1/2 a century later, I still do it)
but of course, these are not Tarantulas either!

btw - @DwayneNLiz great link!

I love love love jumping spiders..... always have.

My avatar for several months a while back.

 

[AllenK RGV]

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See and you all thought I was crazy calling them wonderful pets.I usually uncover 1-2 ever year while mowing the lawn they seem to always survive that unscathed. Either that or I only find the survivors and the rest became fertilizer. I have yet to find a region of Texas where those critters do not live and were I interested could catch 2+ nightly. They are paracitized by the scariest looking wasps I have ever seen on this planet to lay the next generation of freaky looking wasps.

P.S. those wasps also sometimes use cicadas as host organisims for their larva too.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Since I mentioned Cicada's.....these are what ours sound like in my region of the world, I was less than 4.9ft away from it and that is why this Giant Cicada never came into focus.... WARNING--Do not listen to the western hemispheres loudest insect at full volume!

 

[Granny Hatchet]

crawdads ? snakes ? is it wet there ?