Hi, Chris,
Glad you and your son liked the spider. Yes, they are essentially harmless,
except to their mates. The large one is the female. For two days, the male
was also in the web, but, yesterday, he was nowhere to be found. Probably
served as breakfast for the female.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Crawford" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 9:24 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: IMG: Garden Spider
> Awesome spider. Those things are gigantic but harmless. My grandpa had two
> of them set up side by side webs on some plants next to his house a couple
> years ago. Unfortunately I didn't have a camera with me that day and they
> were gone next time I visited. My son, who loves spiders, thought it
> looked
> cool too when I showed him the photo this afternoon.
>
> Chris
>
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> On 8/7/08 12:33 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> I went out this morning to replace my old rain guage, and found that this
>> fellow had set up housekeeping, placing its web over the guage so that it
>> would have been useless.
>>
>> Given the location, I could not do much to improve the background.
>>
>> Oly E-510 with Zuiko 14-54 lens, ISO 200.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Garden+Spider+final.jpg.html
>>
>> Comments and critiques welcomed.
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
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