The Beauty Of The Changing Seasons

[Spimp]

No camera, just my phone, but I thought this little guy was interesting given his Choice of striped plants.

 

[Lester Freeman]

Well looky here!

 

[GardenFaerie]

That is either an immature female garden spider or a mature male. I can't see how big it is. If it is larger than about an inch (abdomen swollen) it is female. I think it is a boy, though.

Very beneficial in the garden.

 

[Spimp]

Body is probably 1/2" long. (abdomen)
I left it alone and until Mrs. Spimp sees it, it will be fine right there.

She is not a fan of alive spiders Me either really, but I draw the line at the front door. You come in my Casa, it's not gonna end well. You stay outside, I'll try to help you hide from the Mrs. lol

 

[GardenFaerie]

Yeah, this spider is not one which you would ever likely find inside. My Mark was bitten by a Brown Recluse and it melted his hand a bit and it swelled up triple. And Mark definitely has huge mitts and wears size 15 shoes. He's 6'5, 235. He runs like a girl when he sees a spider!

Me, nothing scares me really. OH, no, one thing, anything in the grasshopper or cricket family. And I rescued about ten crickets from inside the store last week. I put them in an envelope and freed them outside.

Do you have that where you guys live; a stampede of crickets at certain strip malls? I don't mean a few here and there. I mean blanketing the ground, and many jumping all over in the stores, too.

 

[Lady Cannafan]

We call them zipper spiders. Cuz their webs are in zipper shape. Beautiful Spimp! I had a pic of one that was on my deck screen last year, I uploaded it here back then. I'll try to find it an post it this weekend.

GF is right, they are good guys.

 

[Lady Cannafan]

If I remember correctly, the actual name is "Orb Weaver"?

 

[GardenFaerie]

Yes, this type spider is often referred to as a zipper spider. Orb spiders create a different type web, though the garden spider does have an orb-ish, the way it is built is different.

I'm fascinated by these creatures. OUTSIDE.

 

[GardenFaerie]

The female is 4 times larger than the male and I think she eats him when they are done. If you look in my OT garden journal, I believe there is a photo of one on the pool brush with a billion babies on her. Here, I found it.

 

[Lady Cannafan]

Yeah, this spider is not one which you would ever likely find inside. My Mark was bitten by a Brown Recluse and it melted his hand a bit and it swelled up triple. And Mark definitely has huge mitts and wears size 15 shoes. He's 6'5, 235. He runs like a girl when he sees a spider!

Me, nothing scares me really. OH, no, one thing, anything in the grasshopper or cricket family. And I rescued about ten crickets from inside the store last week. I put them in an envelope and freed them outside.

Do you have that where you guys live; a stampede of crickets at certain strip malls? I don't mean a few here and there. I mean blanketing the ground, and many jumping all over in the stores, too.

Not crickets here, but danged if we don't have hundreds and hundreds of baby toads!

 

[GardenFaerie]

Oh definitely toads and a million of them! With two ponds you can imagine. At night it sounds like an automated loud machinery factory outside! We also have bullfrogs, and one in particular loves the pool. Every night Mark has to go get him out, but only after he make a huge turd. Dang. He's very large, I'd say about 1.5 pounds or so.

I'll try to get a photo of him swimming at night with the pool light on.

 

[Lady Cannafan]

Oh! I would love to have bullfrogs in my pond! I have frogs that make noise, but nothing like a bull. I love to hear them.

 

[GardenFaerie]

He is so loud out there you wouldn't believe it. Maybe I can record how loud it is out there at night. Ever drive through N. Florida at night? That cacophony of noise. Almost like that. Not AS loud.

I don't have any idea where he came from. The creek is at least 1,000 feet away, across the street, down into the woods and down a ravine.

Nature.

Maybe one year I'll invite people over from 420 for the weekend or something. It would be a lot of fun to get together. Not sure how many people would come.

 

[Lady Cannafan]

Well, I've been trucking back and forth to my folks house helping out cuz Mother fractured her hip and had to have pins put in it. So I figured as long as I was over there today I would get some pics of the garden goodies and some things around their pond.

Here's some yums yums:

 

[Lady Cannafan]

And some wild flowers:

 

[Lady Cannafan]

And I'm so jealous! They have red dragon Flies:

 

[Lester Freeman]

Wow that last shot is just spectacular!

You have many Nat. Geo. worthy shots

Oh and those are really high quality goodies

Be well my friend!

 

[Lady Cannafan]

Wow that last shot is just spectacular!

You have many Nat. Geo. worthy shots

Oh and those are really high quality goodies

Be well my friend!

Thank you Lester.

I just got a "Lester" Grasshopper shot. This guy appeared on the window screen and stayed quite a while watching. Drove the kitten bananas! LOL

 

[GardenFaerie]

I just jumped on the couch! I can't stand those hoppers.

Did I post this yet? The flowers I bought for Mark the other day. I don't normally like pink and yellow, but these were so beautiful.

Here's Mika in her little carriage. I pull it behind when I ride my bike or I push it when we walk.
I can't ride the bike because of the balance thing, so I hope we find out what is causing it and fix it.

 

[GardenFaerie]

I do not remember if I told you guys, but I brought her to the vet on Friday and it cost me almost 900 dollars. She had her sinuses flushed, shot of antibiotics, two blood tests, xrays, shot of hormone to calm her repro (she has ova in her, if they develop it will be 4 eggs, not good).

She is amazingly better already. I'm waiting for her nasal culture now so I can get her the antibiotics she needs. Probably Baytril.

There goes my camera, my Oxy Pot System, or fixing my trucks load leveler system! Bah