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Topic: Spiders are awesome (Read 321062 times)
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Ingmar
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More like wishful thinking really.
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IainC
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Just to add more pedantry, I can't be sure but those look like harvestmen, not spiders. We call those daddy longlegs around these parts. In the UK, a Daddy-Long-Legs is the common name for a cranefly. The things in the picture would be harvestman spiders (even though they aren't spiders at all but opiliones).
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apocrypha
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Talking of crane-flys/daddy-long-legs, why is it that I think spiders are awesome, as are most insects, but daddy long legs freak me out? Hate them!
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voodoolily
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Craneflies are salmon's favorite food. When I was a kid we called those "mosquito hawks."
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Ingmar
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Here in California, crane flies are crane flies, and 'daddy long legs' means the cellar spider (which is actually a spider):
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TheWalrus
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Here in California, crane flies are crane flies, and 'daddy long legs' means the cellar spider (which is actually a spider): If those are the same guys I've seen running around washington just in the past 5 years, thats an angry spider. I've seen them run across ceiling from about 6 feet apart and start attacking each other. Sucks, as they also like to hang out in a cars engine bay.
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FatuousTwat
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We have both here, and they are both called daddy long legs, at least by the people I know. I always see them in the shower, and have had more than a few decide to rappel down onto me while in said shower. GAH!
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gryeyes
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They seem to prefer showers for some reason. The translucent daddy long legs with a elongated body. Ive seen them more and more lately, much preferable to the 26oz leaping fuckers i generally encounter. How in the hell do those things prey on huntsmen?
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pxib
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Fun fact: "What do mosquito hawk/crane fly/mosquito eaters eat?" Trick question. The adult form with the dangly legs hasn't got proper mouth parts for eating. It exists entirely to breed, and dies of starvation in only a few days, successfully mated or no.
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apocrypha
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Early September which means that it's orb weaver time in our garden. Loads of them hanging around, fat & full of eggs, munching on flies, wasps and the occasional small bird:
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Mosesandstick
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F*ck me, fantastic. I think that belongs in the awesome pictures thread . What'd you use for the shot? (Since I guess you've hidden your EXIF data)
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apocrypha
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Nikkor 105mm f2.8 macro lens and a single flash with a mini-softbox stuck on the front of it, held in as close as I dared without touching the web on the right hand side. Was pretty much full-power flash at ISO400 to get down to f25 and I could still have done with more depth of field!
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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apocrypha
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voodoolily
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I think that's a trapdoor spider?
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apocrypha
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No, I'm fairly certain that's a facehugger
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"Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism" - Rosa Luxemburg, 1915.
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Cyrrex
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Now you're just making up names to make it even creepier.
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voodoolily
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I think he was talking about Alien.
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VainEldritch
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Spiders are sinister and I confess they are the only animals that I find genuinely "creepy". It's their clutched stillness... their waiting... it carries the distubing notion that sly intelligence exists where non really should. Brrrrrr....
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Mrbloodworth
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This count?
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« Last Edit: March 18, 2010, 11:23:46 AM by Mrbloodworth »
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01101010
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This count?
Since I get a image expired thumb when I clicked it, I was all ready to come on this and make fun of you. But cutting and pasting the pic lead me to pass out for an hour and I forgot what I was going to ridicule you about.
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Mrbloodworth
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This count?
Since I get a image expired thumb when I clicked it, I was all ready to come on this and make fun of you. But cutting and pasting the pic lead me to pass out for an hour and I forgot what I was going to ridicule you about. Fixed thanks bro!
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Lantyssa
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That is definitely NOT a spider, and thus not 'awesome'.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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tgr
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That is definitely NOT a spider, and thus not 'awesome'.
I disagree, it's awesome. It makes me want to bust out the macro lens. What wouldn't be awesome is being the owner of that arm.
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Cyno's lit, bridge is up, but one pilot won't be jumping home.
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Trippy
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It is not a spider, though. This is not the "Awesome Creepy Crawlers" thread.
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NowhereMan
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I would not be confident enough to explain to that demon that it was in the wrong thread.
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Ingmar
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Yeah there aren't too many arthropods that really really bug me, but centipedes are one of them.
It is a healthy fear to have though, some of those things are quite poisonous.
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Cyrrex
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A spider constructed of tons of tiny spiders. How terrible.
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tgr
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Spoilering for size:
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« Last Edit: March 30, 2010, 07:13:06 AM by tgr »
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Cyno's lit, bridge is up, but one pilot won't be jumping home.
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NowhereMan
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... I can never stop screaming...
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Wolf spiders... yeah fuck that. They are known for running down their prey instead of using a web or trap to catch them. Step on it and kill a whole generation seems like a bonus.
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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