Hi, Scott,
The male was on the web, out near the edge, for the first couple of days.
He was much smaller and wouldn't have made much of a meal, but perhaps
provided a little nourishment.
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Peden" <scotpeden@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 10:20 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: Garden Spider
>
> We may get mates for life, they get mates for a good time and a meal.
>
> Lucky dating isn't as hard on the human race as it is on spiders, but then
> again, there are way more of them then there are us.
>
> We'll not all of the eat their mates, I use to think it was just the black
> widow, but there are a few species. The male would have been much smaller
> and skinny, he may have escaped to play mating roulette again on another
> day.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Jim Nichols
> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 5:01 PM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: Garden Spider
>
>
> The one I photographed is still here, but I think she devoured her mate,
> for
> he is no longer around.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Scott Peden" <scotpeden@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 1:25 AM
> Subject: [OM] Re: Garden Spider
>
>
>>
>> Agi, agrophi? I forget how to spell this ones name. Zig Zag in the web is
>> the giveaway.
>>
>> WE use to have 5-6 and if you get to close they'd move their web like a
>> trampoline, we thought it was so cute we'd show visitors, then one day
>> one
>> jumped out of their web and chased down a grasshopper and stopped it in
>> it's
>> tracks with one bit..... I never teased one again to show friends how
>> they
>> make themselves look larger....... Ours had larger splotches of Yell like
>> a
>> tortoise shell.
>>
>> Before I had a camera, sorry!
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf
>> Of Jim Nichols
>> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 2:48 PM
>> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [OM] Garden Spider
>>
>>
>> This morning I went out to replace my old rain gauge before the forecast
>> shower, and found that this garden spider had taken over the area,
>> sheltering the gauge with its web. I couldn't do much about the
>> background
>> because of the location.
>>
>> Oly E-510 with 14-54 Zuiko, ISO 200.
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Garden+Spider+final.jpg.html
>>
>> Jim Nichols
>> Tullahoma, TN USA
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