Close encounter of the arachnid kind-bug video added post 26

**crow_noir** · 09-07-2007, 03:31 AM

YEaaeeeeeeeeeee!!!! Egads!

Those things are creepy. I like to look at them outside, but i keep my distance.

p.s. for what it's worth... since everyone else is stating what they think it is... It looks like a type of Garden spider to me. ...maybe just because of how stretch looking the front legs are... other than that it looks like the unidentified window spiders that i call Guardian spiders. (long story... but as much as those creep me out... I like having them around. They've done me a few favors.) It actually looks like a mix between the two from around here.

Originally Posted by ChrisH

A relative has made its way on to a wall in my living room.

(It's the same size as the one that was on my shoulder.)
click if you dare!

creepy crawly warning

**ChrisH** · 09-07-2007, 10:24 AM

Seems as if my house and it's environs have become bug & creature city this year.
First the annual ant invasion with a difference, bigger and more numerous, and then the giant beetle type bug in my kitchen, creepy crawly bug in a jar and thirdly, the slugs, of which there have been an amazing amount.

Nicer ones were: seeing a real dragonfly for the first time and a second smaller one a few days later who obligingly stayed still and waited whilst I went and got my camera. (I'll put a link in case anyone feels they are also creepy crawlys). dragonfly Another nice one was being buzzed by a -rare as I found out later- butterfly as I was hanging out the washing. It flew by me a few times then landed on the window pane for me to have a good look, didn't stay long enough for me to grab my camera though.

The next nice one for me, but I suspect not for others, was seeing some bats flying around the front of my house. I stood for a while in my garden, just watching. Amazing acrobatics.

Finally, the nasties, wasps. Being stung whilst working in the garden one day was not pleasant and then there was the nest outside my bedroom window. I had to get someone out to get rid of it because it was dangerous being so close to where I sleep. Then yesterday there was a one (a wasp) in Ebby's 'apartment' and today one in the living room.

Not one of my favourite creatures to be sure.

Where will it all end I ask myself.