"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Saturday, October 27, 2018
What the...?
Spider webs (in Australia, of course). I wonder what happened to the picnickers.
That almost looks like my dining room and kitchen in the morning. We take them down, and they're up the next morning. We rarely see the little engineers. It's hard to combat them because we have cats.
And then there is outside. No massive spider webs even tho the spuders are huge (thankfully they stay outside), but industrious ants that make hills several inches high. They even crack the ground near the hill. Kill one and another springs up overnight. Sigh.
In our neck of the woods, there are massive structures that are spider nests in some of the trees. Spidey treehouses.
Here is a Golden Orb spider with some captured victims in her larder in the top left of the picture. I recently found this Golden Orb victim hanging from a tree in my orchard. The hapless bird was about 7 inches from tip of tail to beak.
Messed up that link to Golden Orb spider. Try this http://s154.photobucket.com/user/Skeeter_049/media/Golden-orb-spider-Nephila_plumipes_D4176.jpg.html
That almost looks like my dining room and kitchen in the morning. We take them down, and they're up the next morning. We rarely see the little engineers. It's hard to combat them because we have cats.
ReplyDeleteAnd then there is outside. No massive spider webs even tho the spuders are huge (thankfully they stay outside), but industrious ants that make hills several inches high. They even crack the ground near the hill. Kill one and another springs up overnight. Sigh.
In our neck of the woods, there are massive structures that are spider nests in some of the trees. Spidey treehouses.
Advice when in OZ: don't stay still for long.
Looks like Queensland, or up north where they have things like this:
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrocnide_moroides
Their bloodless corpses are in web cocoons under the table.
ReplyDeleteJim: I figured it was something like that.
ReplyDeleteWe have some powerful spiders in Oz.
ReplyDeleteHere is a Golden Orb spider with some captured victims in her larder in the top left of the picture.
I recently found this Golden Orb victim hanging from a tree in my orchard. The hapless bird was about 7 inches from tip of tail to beak.
Messed up that link to Golden Orb spider.
ReplyDeleteTry this
http://s154.photobucket.com/user/Skeeter_049/media/Golden-orb-spider-Nephila_plumipes_D4176.jpg.html
The poor bird, Skeeter. I see the spider's processing some red/yellow beetle too.
ReplyDeleteSorry yellow and black beetle.
ReplyDeleteHere's a spider drawing us into its global web of death now, down south:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-26/victoria-and-china-belt-and-road-signing-mou/10435148
This is insane. I'd rather be invaded by Putin than by China's Borg.