Hi Marc,
The most dangerous insect we encounter, aside from the infrequent black
widow, is the yellow jacket, which builds its nest in the ground. If you
walk over a nest with a walking mower you are in for trouble. I spotted one
a few weeks ago and dealt with it, first with a full can of hornet spray,
and then with several ounces of gasoline. No, it was too close to the house
to light it, though I have done that out in the open.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Marc Lawrence" <montsnmags@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Crab Spider
>> Chris Crawford recently posted: "You shouldn't have killed it, Crab
>> Spiders are cool. They change colors to match the flowers they sit on,
>> so they can ambush bugs that frequent flowers, like bees."
>
> I'm not sure, but I think this might only extend to the Goldenrod Crab
> Spider, and then only between the colours yellow and white (and it is
> not an "instant" thing, as with some other colour-changing animals).
> I'd happily stand corrected on this.
>
> Crab Spiders are some of the nicest-looking spiders (as Jim's and
> Moose's photos attest), but I also live with someone who must be
> restrained from wielding the shoe, Jim, in his case inside and out.
> Should that spider be as large as a Huntsman (think something that
> looks as big as an open handspan, and that likes to sit high on the
> walls, inevitably somewhere near the head end of the bed), that
> feeling is understandable even by me. The
> magazine-and-Tupperware-container trick works there. I do point out
> that the remarkable absence of mossies and flies in our house (where
> we leave our doors open all the time, and where the environment would
> otherwise indicate massive numbers), is likely down to all the
> different spiders of several species we see in and, more often, around
> the house (those, and the hornets and solitary wasps, and the dragon
> flies, and the geckos, and so on).
>
> I must admit I get more of a fright when inadvertently walking through
> the tough webs of some of the big garden spiders, or accidentally
> knocking a paper ant (not sure of actual species) in the palms and
> having a mass of their mid-sized black bodies fall on and run all over
> me (though thankfully, they don't seem aggressive, and have never
> harmed me even when provoked with my wild batting and barely
> restrained squeals).
>
> Bees frighten the crap out of me though. I save them from the pool,
> but it's a close thing for me. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Marc
> Noosa Heads
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