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Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Crab Spider
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:46:53 -0400
I have very distinct memories of my first encounter with yellow jackets. 
  When I was a young kid a friend and I made some "spears" out of some 
saplings that we cut down and sharpened.  We were throwing them on the 
front lawn of his grandmother's country farm house.  When I went to 
retrieve my spear after a couple of throws I discovered that it had 
exactly entered the middle of a yellow jacket nest in a hole in the 
ground.  They were not happy campers and let me know it!

Chuck Norcutt


Jim Nichols wrote:
> 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
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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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