[Marte]

OMG, that hornet is a monster!

[glimmertwin87]

Originally Posted by Marte

OMG, that hornet is a monster!

It certainly is!
When it first flew past me I thought, wow, what a nice colourful little bird.
So imagine my horror when it landed and I got a closer look.

[bulldog]

love the pics glimmer I love strange animals...... ( spiders at a far) I HATE spiders....... OMG they are just *shutters* gross.

[glimmertwin87]

Originally Posted by bulldog

OMG they are just *shutters* gross.

Yep, indeed gross, but also bizarrely intriguing.

[Marte]

Oh, come to think of another thing. Items/people/animals/insects in LARGE numbers. Swarms. Like those swarms of fish that swim the same way.. wow!

[bulldog]

Originally Posted by glimmertwin87

Yep, indeed gross, but also bizarrely intriguing.

oh yes I agree........

[Lady Kestrel]

Marte,
Some of those Victorian post mortem pictures are so sad, especially the ones of the kids.

Glimmer,
I had to scroll fast past your spider pics. Too many legs! Too many legs!

In a former life (my previous marriage) I used to have pet snakes, including a 12' burmese python, several boas, a ball python, a king snake, and a bull snake. They were very beautiful and didn't bother me at all to handle, but I didn't enjoy the feeding part.

[Jelena]

Originally Posted by Lady Kestrel

Too many legs! Too many legs!

I agree, the problem with spiders are definitely too many legs! I'm so happy there aren't flying spiders. *shudders at the very thought of it*

In a former life (my previous marriage) I used to have pet snakes, including a 12' burmese python, several boas, a ball python, a king snake, and a bull snake. They were very beautiful and didn't bother me at all to handle, but I didn't enjoy the feeding part.

Snakes don't bother me the same way spiders do, but I don't think I'd be comfortable living with a bunch of them.

[rlpw]

Spiders are fantastic creatures! I had a large Signature spider that lived next to our porch for a few months. I saw a male but never an egg sack in her web even though she was very well fed.(guilty) She past away a week ago and the children regarded her as our personal Charlotte.

[glimmertwin87]

Originally Posted by Lady Kestrel

I used to have pet snakes, including a 12' burmese python, several boas, a ball python, a king snake, and a bull snake. They were very beautiful and didn't bother me at all to handle, but I didn't enjoy the feeding part.

Wow, that’s quite a collection! Yes, they truly are incredible looking things, especially the intricate patterns.
I’ve briefly stumbled across a few snakes before; needless to say, I usually depart as fast as I can in the opposite direction.

[glimmertwin87]

Originally Posted by Marte

Oh, come to think of another thing. Items/people/animals/insects in LARGE numbers. Swarms. Like those swarms of fish that swim the same way.. wow!

Yeah, it’s cool when you see things working together, almost as if they’re a single larger entity, like ants.

Originally Posted by Jelena

I'm so happy there aren't flying spiders. *shudders at the very thought of it*

Lol, flying spiders! That’s the stuff of nightmares........or of movies; I can almost imagine “Flying Spiders on a Plane” as a sequel to “Snakes on a plane”.

Originally Posted by rlpw

I had a large Signature spider that lived next to our porch for a few months.

Cool spider, I think I've seen one once but under a different name.

[rlpw]

They're not so much a type as a group of spiders known to put zig-zag patterns in there webs which cannot be scene in me picture due to someone feeding a cricket to it.
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/803168...fast_in_texas/

[bulldog]

check this out.......very funny .............. dont watch around small children

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc

[Fantasysci5]

I'm not sure where else I'd put this, so I'll put it here.

Right now, I'm obsessed with a commercial with opera singing, about "cash now". I sing it all the time, and it drives Louie crazy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx4kD...ext=1&index=63

[tsa]

Hehe, it's very contagious CASH NOW!!

[Jazhara7]

Originally Posted by glimmertwin87

I don’t know if it qualifies as weird, but I like to photograph strange creatures when i see them on my various travels.

Enjoy!

That last one looks like some type of Weevil to me.


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[glimmertwin87]

Originally Posted by Jazhara7

That last one looks like some type of Weevil to me.

Ah ha! Yes, thank you; the mystery of the strange bug is finally solved.

[Lady Kestrel]

Thanks, Fan. That very silly commercial is stuck in my head now.

[Sage]

Originally Posted by rlpw

Spiders are fantastic creatures! I had a large Signature spider that lived next to our porch for a few months. I saw a male but never an egg sack in her web even though she was very well fed.(guilty) She past away a week ago and the children regarded her as our personal Charlotte.

Although Wikipedia says otherwise, the Argiope spiders I've observed here in Alabama tend to hide their egg cases in vegetation near or below their web and not place it on the web itself. Also, like most spider species, Argiope females tend to have a distinctly deflated look to their abdomen after laying their eggs.

[rlpw]

Argiope is the name huh? I just knew them as Signature spiders though a friend of mine said they are also known as Orbweavers so that makes lots of sense.