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Subject: [OM] New IMG Intuitive Chameleon Arachnid?
From: "Brian Swale" <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2011 22:43:49 +1200
Moose wrote
> The descriptions say they are free roaming hunters and "They do not wrap
> their prey in silk after biting, but instead remain with the immobilized
> prey until they have sucked it dry. " So what the heck is this that my
> local spider has built?
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Home/Garden_
> Summer_2011 &image=_MG_2669croof70.jpg>

In my opinion this is a cocoon with her eggs laid alongside or in the nice 
food source she has stored for her babies.

Nice shot.

Brian Swale
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