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Bathtime is a bit stressful at the moment. The big ones are easy to shift, it's the teeny ones I'm having to look out for...
Thread about spiders (not for the arachnophobic!)
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SheilaNaGig
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By rights I should have one living in subtropical Bristol since I have every other kind of spider - though my daddylongleg spiders are fairly voracious.
I miss Minnie
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What happened to Minnie?
Also, I thought Daddy Longlegs are crane flys?
The spiders with long thin legs that tremble and spin when you blow on them, they're cellar spiders, I think. Not Daddy Long-legs.
Or have I got that wrong?
SheilaNaGig
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In the bath? I hate finding spiders in the bath, because they must feel so exhausted and hopeless from trying to get out.
SheilaNaGig
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I am somewhat jealous.
I reckon your level of pleasure would easily outstrip mine, mainly because you have much greater knowledge and understanding than I do. But I promise that I'm totally delighted to have a huntsman spider roaming my kitchen.
If it get significantly larger though, I may ask you to give it a home...
SheilaNaGig
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Blimey! If Tom gets that old he'll definitely outlive me.
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This is Natasha.
Sandra and Teesha are not visible right now. I'll try to get snaps of them too.
Sandra and Teesha are not visible right now. I'll try to get snaps of them too.
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I think I mean cellar spiders - thought they were a different species.
Pholcidae - Wikipedia
Segestria florentina - Wikipedia
SheilaNaGig
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I think I mean cellar spiders - thought they were a different species.
Minnie was years ago - I doubt she never got herself a boyfriend so there were no replacements.Pholcidae - Wikipedia
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Segestria florentina - Wikipedia
In my old house, there was a cellar spider that lived in the corner of the downstairs loo. I looked for her every time I went in there, and she was always there, motionless but apparently quite satisfied. When I sold that house, I was worried that the new people would hoover her up or kill her, so just before I left I gently l removed her to a sheltered spot in the porch that I thought might best aproximate an indoor setting.
About six months after I moved out, the new people invited me in for a cuppa when I was collecting my post. I asked to use the loo before I left, and right there where she'd always been was the cellar spider. Of course I can't know for sure it was the same spider, but I like to think that she took it upon herself to move back to her preferred spot as soon as she could. And I was really please she hadn't been noticed/removed by the new people.
SheilaNaGig
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I think I mean cellar spiders - thought they were a different species.
Minnie was years ago - I doubt she never got herself a boyfriend so there were no replacements.Pholcidae - Wikipedia
Segestria florentina - Wikipedia
Hmmm... I wonder if Sandra is one of these...? Teesha also...
gentlegreen
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They're so spindly, but they apparently eat a lot of other spiders !
SheilaNaGig
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Who, the cellar spider, the flimsy daddy long legses ? I didn’t know that.
Natasha apparently eats other spiders, I have seen three wispy remains in her web.
farmerbarleymow
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Heteronormative.
SheilaNaGig
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I've played around with some filters on that photo of Natasha.
SheilaNaGig
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So what species is Natasha?
Chilli.s
mingling jets and statuettes
Steatoda nobilis
SheilaNaGig
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Dp
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I seem to have posted all of them twice.
Showing off now...
Showing off now...
farmerbarleymow
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That's a very handsome spider SheilaNaGig 
SheilaNaGig
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That's a very handsome spider SheilaNaGig
It really is. His form is really lovely, I enjoy looking at him on my walls and ceiling. But I didn't realise he had these beautiful markings til I took these snaps. And look at those mandibles!
gentlegreen
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I saw a thing about crab spiders earlier and how cow parsley was their favourite haunt because of their colour and the way they fool insects by reflecting UV in a particular way - so I set out to find one in the park.
I think I found one - though sadly not in action - plus my phone camera isn't up to the job.
I think I found one - though sadly not in action - plus my phone camera isn't up to the job.
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and a bonus chafer - "rose" or "noble" ?
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SheilaNaGig
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Tea time for Sandra.
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And what is this spider please?
I turned over a flat rock and two of them were on the underside. They didn't skeddadle, even when I blew on them, so I wondered if I'd squashed them when I laid the rock down a few days ago. But they didn't look squashed, and they'd have had to have been upside down when that happened, for they were right side up when I turned to rock over. Then one of them ran off, nothing wrong. So they were clinging to the roof of the small gap between the rock and the stony ground.
I've posted the snap I took, and the version I messed about with in an effort to enhance the image, markings etc.
This is in Brixton.
I turned over a flat rock and two of them were on the underside. They didn't skeddadle, even when I blew on them, so I wondered if I'd squashed them when I laid the rock down a few days ago. But they didn't look squashed, and they'd have had to have been upside down when that happened, for they were right side up when I turned to rock over. Then one of them ran off, nothing wrong. So they were clinging to the roof of the small gap between the rock and the stony ground.
I've posted the snap I took, and the version I messed about with in an effort to enhance the image, markings etc.
This is in Brixton.
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Harvestman so arachnid but not actually a spider.
