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This time of the year when we walk in the timber I find an 4 foot long walking stick and wave it in front of me to clear the trail of cobwebs. I just hate it when those things hit my face and I look up to see a spider dangling from my sun visor.

Today while harvesting the dead tree I found a small yellow spider with a v pattern of dark spots on it's thorax. Just looked it up.

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It was a banded crab spider. Smaller than a dime and feisty.
 
This time of the year when we walk in the timber I find an 4 foot long walking stick and wave it in front of me to clear the trail of cobwebs. I just hate it when those things hit my face and I look up to see a spider dangling from my sun visor.

Today while harvesting the dead tree I found a small yellow spider with a v pattern of dark spots on it's thorax. Just looked it up.

smooth_crab_spider_08-02-13.jpg


It was a banded crab spider. Smaller than a dime and feisty.
That is a beautiful Spider!
 
When I bought this property I had to clear a lane to the back about 1200ft x 30ft, 3 times wider where the house is, out of about 10 acres of dense cedar, spruce, poplar and various heavy undergrowth. What I quickly discovered is that there are LOTS of spiders in the woods. All different sizes, shapes, and colors. They are literally everywhere. And they give me the willies, but I try not to kill anything unnecessarily so we had a detante thing going.
 
This time of the year when we walk in the timber I find an 4 foot long walking stick and wave it in front of me to clear the trail of cobwebs. I just hate it when those things hit my face and I look up to see a spider dangling from my sun visor.

Today while harvesting the dead tree I found a small yellow spider with a v pattern of dark spots on it's thorax. Just looked it up.

smooth_crab_spider_08-02-13.jpg


It was a banded crab spider. Smaller than a dime and feisty.
Cool!
 

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