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Subject: [OM] Re: Garden Spider(Now Server Problems)
From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:52:38 -0500
This response took 2hrs 10min to come back to me.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 10:38 AM
Subject: [OM] Re: Garden Spider


>
> 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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