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[OM] Re: Garden Spider(Now Server Problems)

Subject: [OM] Re: Garden Spider(Now Server Problems)
From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:56:54 -0500
This one showed up 10 min after I sent it.  Things are looking up.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2008 12:52 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Garden Spider(Now Server Problems)


>
> 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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