Trees Cocooned in Spider Webs After Flood

[Reece]

Rather eerie pictures, anyone for some tree climbing!:dead:
http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/340/cache/pakistan-floods-drive-spiders-into-trees-adult_34026_600x450.jpg
http://news.nationalgeographic.com.au/news/2011/03/pictures/110331-pakistan-flood-spider-trees-webs/
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/spider-webs-pakistan-trees.shtml

[Task Force]

Looks like those things caterpillars make to me.

[Tribesman]

Looks like those things caterpillars make to me.
They look nothing like a bulldozer

[Task Force]

They look nothing like a bulldozer

Oah wait, not that one, the one that is a big... that's names spelling (if it is any different) escapes me now.

[TLAM Strike]

Oah wait, not that one, the one that is a big... that's names spelling (if it is any different) escapes me now.

Word you looking for?
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/7268/cocoon1f.jpg

[Blood_splat]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3193/2573152408_454e45a115.jpg

[mookiemookie]

http://www.myfacewhen.com/images/175.jpg

[Reece]

Don't you just them!
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRgsvjraZDHLyF1JSYG82wgL6m7rICp7 KJ5qq_uCI4zcMnSm5fx&t=1
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/img/2007/national/2210_birdeating_sp_lg.jpg
http://www.gold-coast-aus.com/femalefunelweb.jpg

[Blacklight]

Back when I was a teenager, there was this bush in front of my house to the left of the front door. I remember one summer day, I walked out the door and noticed that the entire bush was in a web cocoon that had sprung up literally overnight. Sitting near the top in a little tunnel structure was this HUGE (at least 4-5 inches long) and very tired looking wood spider. That thing could sense movement of anything in that bush. If I dropped a bug anywhere on the bush, the spider would speed around the bush to grab it.

[Stealhead]

The spiders rest their legs on different lines on the web that way they can feel the movement of something caught inside the web somehow they are able to tell the difference between prey that has been captured and merely the wind moving the web.

I tried a few times when I was a kid tricking what we call Banana Spiders but they never seemed to get fooled by my fake movements of the web.The Banana spiders make a huge web that has a very sturdy center their silk is very strong and sticky even in thinner areas the webs are often 7 or 8 feet high I bet that a small bird would be unable to get out of the web if it got caught though I have never seen evidence of it actually happening.

I was viewing some show a few weeks back on National Geographic they where in Texas and they where looking at this massive web like the one in those trees in the op picture but in this case it was covering one very large oak tree it was much larger than the webs in the op photo.

[AVGWarhawk]

Is this a spiders version of "circling the wagons?"

[Jimbuna]

Horrible buggas...never have liked them :nope:

http://www.shoutingatco.ws/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/spider_hand.jpg

[frau kaleun]

Just stopped by to top off the old nightmare fuel tank. If anyone wants me I'll be over here in the corner crying softly into a pillow.

[Reece]

That spider is common here Jim, that type of huntsman can grow to 7", the biggest I have seen was 6.5" but stuffed if I'm gonna pick one up!:oops:

[Jimbuna]

That spider is common here Jim, that type of huntsman can grow to 7", the biggest I have seen was 6.5" but stuffed if I'm gonna pick one up!:oops:

I must admit I don't like them at any size but the bigger they are the more concerned I become.

[Stealhead]

Actually at least here in the US the smaller spiders are the ones that can truly harm you the Black Widow is fairly small but it has venom that has killed people.The Banana spider that I mentioned earlier they are much larger but are harmless.Of course I always liked spiders because they eat critters that I don't like; caterpillars.

[Reece]

Australia has so many poisonous spiders, the Red Back is virtually identical to the Black Widow, also the White Tip, even smaller but the bite is really bad, causes a large raw wound that wont heal for anything up to 20 years!! and lives in houses (cracks etc). The Funnel Web is by far the worse though, more poisonous than the brown snake, 20 minutes to get an anti-venom shot!:x:oops::doh::o

[TarJak]

I pick em up using a plastic bowl and a sheet of card. Pop the bowl over them then slide the card underneath and flip him into the bowl. carry them outside and release. Too easy and no toxic fumes or mess to clean up inside the house.

Never tread on one, they can splay over a wide area. Especially the big ones:
http://images.jmikep69.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/orig/SASuQAoKCn8AADmmRJ8248/1.jpeg?et=kJNyEG%2BJ2xbhr5ByQi4t2g&nmid=

[frau kaleun]

I pick em up using a plastic bowl and a sheet of card. Pop the bowl over them then slide the card underneath and flip him into the bowl. carry them outside and release. Too easy and no toxic fumes or mess to clean up inside the house.

Never tread on one, they can splay over a wide area. Especially the big ones:
http://images.jmikep69.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/orig/SASuQAoKCn8AADmmRJ8248/1.jpeg?et=kJNyEG%2BJ2xbhr5ByQi4t2g&nmid=

*faint*

I try to do the catch and release but sometimes they refuse to cooperate with the rescue operations and then my primal instincts kick in.

Had one coming across the floor in the bedroom once, tried my best to get the little bugger but he just kept scurrying around and finally went up into the folds of the bedding that were hanging down at the corner of the bed. Well, that sealed it. Visions of spider eggs being laid in my hair whilst I was sleeping... *shiver* From that moment on, we were sworn enemies.

Took a while for him to come back out into the open but when he did it was on like Donkey Kong. :O:

[Jimbuna]

http://lobsterfacts.livelob.com/images/kill_water_spider.jpg

[Reece]

Is that a picture of the Frau in action Jim?:hmmm:

[Jimbuna]

Is that a picture of the Frau in action Jim?:hmmm:

Apparently so...after realising they had crabs :hmmm:

[danasan]

I pick em up using a plastic bowl and a sheet of card. Pop the bowl over them then slide the card underneath and flip him into the bowl. carry them outside and release. Too easy and no toxic fumes or mess to clean up inside the house.

Never tread on one, they can splay over a wide area. Especially the big ones:
http://images.jmikep69.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/orig/SASuQAoKCn8AADmmRJ8248/1.jpeg?et=kJNyEG%2BJ2xbhr5ByQi4t2g&nmid=


I am glad that we have none like that here in Germany. A bit scary, that monster :o

[Reece]

Apparently so...after realising they had crabs :hmmm:
:har: Where's Frau?:oops:

[frau kaleun]

Is that a picture of the Frau in action Jim?:hmmm:

Apparently so...after realising they had crabs :hmmm:

That's the last time I let the crew go on leave unsupervised. :stare:

[TarJak]

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ5zpZjojUzJhGx_JLuDhV4sItJWBa_f i992RKstdW0vg0r2CswUg&t=1
Nope I can't see anything there.:O:

[Reece]

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ5zpZjojUzJhGx_JLuDhV4sItJWBa_f i992RKstdW0vg0r2CswUg&t=1
Damn thing spat at me!

[frau kaleun]

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ5zpZjojUzJhGx_JLuDhV4sItJWBa_f i992RKstdW0vg0r2CswUg&t=1

Newsflash: Subsim Meet Secret Rituals Revealed!

[krashkart]

I pick em up using a plastic bowl and a sheet of card. Pop the bowl over them then slide the card underneath and flip him into the bowl. carry them outside and release. Too easy and no toxic fumes or mess to clean up inside the house.

Never tread on one, they can splay over a wide area. Especially the big ones:
http://images.jmikep69.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/orig/SASuQAoKCn8AADmmRJ8248/1.jpeg?et=kJNyEG%2BJ2xbhr5ByQi4t2g&nmid=


Poor little bastard... he's been drinking Foster's again hasn't he? :cry:

[Jimbuna]

That's the last time I let the crew go on leave unsupervised. :stare:

Make sure Reece accompanies them next time...not much chance of them catching anything then :DL

[Subnuts]

What's that you say, Mr Tree, "Kill me! Kill me?" Just hold on a minute while I go home and whip together a flamethrower.

[STEED]

Kill them, kill them all..

http://media1.fxhome.com/preset-images/1832/preview.png

[Jimbuna]

Kill them, kill them all..


http://www.dignews.com/legacy/screenshots/starship_troopers_05.jpg

[STEED]

http://www.dignews.com/legacy/screenshots/starship_troopers_05.jpg

A..?

[Platapus]

Two words

Camel Spider

Which strangely is neither associated with camels nor actually a spider.

Relatively harmless to humans, but high on the oogy scale. :yep:

[kiwi_2005]

Spiders & snakes is one reason I wont travel outside my country. Relatives head of to Aussie, no way man to many spiders over there! :nope:

The only poisonous spider we have is the Whitetail which came from Australia and the black widow. Very rare to see a black widow they hang out mostly in sand dunes but the whitetail is everywhere during summer, their bites are not fatal but you can lose a limb to gangrene if you do not get it treated. Rots your fresh :dead:

We have no snakes, scorpions or any other creepy crawly, though one creature which is freaky looking but doesn't seem to scare me like a spider does is the Weta. Harmless slow creatures.

http://i51.tinypic.com/25h061d.jpg

[Reece]

Make sure Reece accompanies them next time...not much chance of them catching anything then :DL
Now how do you respond to that!!:hmmm:

[krashkart]

I like spiders because they keep the other bugs from becoming invasive; but there is a limit to my level of tolerance. :yep:

The only genus(?) of spider that I have ever been able to hold in my hand :DL
http://utahspider.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/utah-spider-daring-jumping-spider.jpg

^These are probably the most docile critters on the planet.

@kiwi: When I was much younger we lived next door some college kids that kept black widows (and piranhas) for pets. At some point they got tired of keeping the black widows and set them loose in the space between their home and our home. With nowhere else to go the wayward bastards (the black widows, not the college kids) ended up in our basement; more specifically in the corner of my bedroom where my bed happened to be. We didn't find out about that until a deep spring cleaning. Turned out that I had been sleeping a few inches above the nest for close to a year. I don't know what words my dad had for those guys next door, but if those words were anything like the words he reserved for me whenever I got into trouble (then they got off far too easy IMHO :stare:).

[TLAM Strike]

Two words

Camel Spider

Which strangely is neither associated with camels nor actually a spider.

Relatively harmless to humans, but high on the oogy scale. :yep:
Remember this picture?
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/77/largecamelspidery.jpg
Yea, they are the reason we invaded Iraq. Exterminating the horrid things.

SWe have no snakes, scorpions or any other creepy crawly, though one creature which is freaky looking but doesn't seem to scare me like a spider does is the Weta. Harmless slow creatures.

http://i51.tinypic.com/25h061d.jpg

Reminds me of the Emerald Ash Borer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_ash_borer). We have a problem with them in NYS. Saw one once, thought it was a frog at first it was so huge. I got closer and saw it was some kind of huge bug and I ran away.

[krashkart]

http://i51.tinypic.com/25h061d.jpg

So District 9 really is a documentary? :huh: I'll be damned. :hmmm:

[kiwi_2005]

http://i51.tinypic.com/25h061d.jpg

So District 9 really is a documentary? :huh: I'll be damned. :hmmm:

They are nocturnal so love coming into homes at night cause of the lights. I use to live near native bush and would always get Wetas coming in or just hanging out on the outside of my windows attracted to the light. Never bothered me I just don't find Weta's scary they are slow and just tend to stay in one place for ever. Though put a spider there, half its size and I would be running for the hills :har:

http://www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/native-animals/invertebrates/weta/

[Jimbuna]

A..?

It was just something off Starship Troopers :DL

Doesn't show up on Google now :hmmm:

http://www.grouchoreviews.com/content/films/3154/2.jpg

[Jimbuna]

Spiders & snakes is one reason I wont travel outside my country. Relatives head of to Aussie, no way man to many spiders over there! :nope:

The only poisonous spider we have is the Whitetail which came from Australia and the black widow. Very rare to see a black widow they hang out mostly in sand dunes but the whitetail is everywhere during summer, their bites are not fatal but you can lose a limb to gangrene if you do not get it treated. Rots your fresh :dead:

We have no snakes, scorpions or any other creepy crawly, though one creature which is freaky looking but doesn't seem to scare me like a spider does is the Weta. Harmless slow creatures.



I also consider those of us living in the UK as being very lucky...we only have the common Adder snake and that rarely bites and is even less likely to prove fatal...unless you have a heart defect etc.

[Hottentot]

I also consider those of us living in the UK as being very lucky...we only have the common Adder snake and that rarely bites and is even less likely to prove fatal...unless you have a heart defect etc.

Aye, that's the only real poisonous animal in here too and it's very rare that they bite: usually they scarper already when you are trampling your way trough the bushes a few kilometres away.

Though every year about this time our media goes crazy with the news of some new, weird and exotic little bug that has somehow found its way over the border and is eeeeextra icky scary disgusting dangerous! Boo! It's beyond me why, but our journalists seem to have some sort of collective fetish for them, based on the way they write those articles :doh:. This year it's some new tick and a bug that apparently sprays its eggs right into your eyes thinking you're a moose.

They never seem to stick around, though. I guess they are just smart and notice their mistake soon enough. "Bob, you moron, I told you we should have taken the left road, not the right one! This is Finland, not England! Give me that map!"

[Jimbuna]

LOL :DL

[STEED]

It was just something off Starship Troopers :DL

Doesn't show up on Google now :hmmm:

http://www.grouchoreviews.com/content/films/3154/2.jpg

They should have nuked the bugs!

What a bunch of useless farts they were, bullets...come on!

[TLAM Strike]

They should have nuked the bugs!

What a bunch of useless farts they were, bullets...come on!


The real Navy opinion is even more extreme: The Army is obsolete and
should be abolished.
The Navy doesn't say this officially -- but talk to a Naval officer who
is on R & R and feeling his oats; you'll get an earful. They think they can
fight any war, win it, send a few of their own people down to hold the
conquered planet until the Diplomatic Corps takes charge.
I admit that their newest toys can blow any planet right out of the sky
-- I've never seen it but I believe it.Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein (the book!)

[Jimbuna]

Never read the book but I admit I quite enjoyed the first film.