Trees Cocooned in Spider Webs After Flood

Reece · 06-09-11, 06:02 PM

Rather eerie pictures, anyone for some tree climbing!

http://news.nationalgeographic.com.a...er-trees-webs/
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/spider-we...an-trees.shtml

Task Force · 06-09-11, 06:05 PM

Looks like those things caterpillars make to me.

06-09-11, 06:08 PM

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Looks like those things caterpillars make to me.

They look nothing like a bulldozer

Task Force · 06-09-11, 06:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Tribesman

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 · 06-09-11, 08:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Task Force

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?

Blood_splat · 06-09-11, 11:04 PM

krashkart · 06-12-11, 09:20 PM

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

The only genus(?) of spider that I have ever been able to hold in my hand

^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

).

TLAM Strike · 06-12-11, 10:15 PM

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Originally Posted by 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.

Remember this picture?

Yea, they are the reason we invaded Iraq. Exterminating the horrid things.

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Originally Posted by kiwi_2005

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.

Reminds me of the 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 · 06-12-11, 10:23 PM

So District 9 really is a documentary?

I'll be damned.

kiwi_2005 · 06-12-11, 11:23 PM

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Originally Posted by krashkart

So District 9 really is a documentary?

I'll be damned.

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

http://www.doc.govt.nz/conservation/...tebrates/weta/

06-09-11, 06:02 PM	#1
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krashkart Navy Seal Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 5,292 Downloads: 100 Uploads: 0	I like spiders because they keep the other bugs from becoming invasive; but there is a limit to my level of tolerance. The only genus(?) of spider that I have ever been able to hold in my hand ^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 ). __________________ sent from my fingertips using a cheap keyboard

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