7 responses to “A Photo for Friday”

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   JohnMcC

   August 14, 2020 at 7:22 am

   The first hiker on the trail every morning gets this view pretty often; his/her face clears the path of the night’s work by these lovely guys. I think that’s a Wolf Spider, by the way.

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   Cheryl Rofer

   August 14, 2020 at 8:50 am

   That’s Ms. Spider.

   Point of biology.

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   OzarkHillbilly

   August 14, 2020 at 9:00 am

   @JohnMcC: That’s why you bring a stick to hold in front of you.
   @Cheryl Rofer: You are absolutely correct.

   Pretty sure that’s a type of Orb Weaver, I suspect Nephila.

   ETA: Wrong. Nephilas are the infamous banana spiders and as such are endemic to the tropics. I suppose some may have hitched a ride tho.

   I still think a type of orb weaver.

   ETA2 Than again Steven, iirc you have spent some time in S America. Where did you take this pic?

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   JohnMcC

   August 14, 2020 at 9:05 am

   @OzarkHillbilly: Actually, trekking poles. And I was hoping someone would give an actual identity; I’ve run into her kin pretty often without any introduction.

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   OzarkHillbilly

   August 14, 2020 at 9:18 am

   @JohnMcC: My wife likes her trekking poles for when we go hiking but she doesn’t use them for that. I will sometimes pick up a stick but usually I just let her go first. 🙂 Last year I mounted a bike flag on the front of my lawn tractor to catch all the webs. I just put it back on for orb weaver season.

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   Steven L. Taylor

   August 14, 2020 at 9:36 am

   @Cheryl Rofer: Good to know. I will confess to ignorance on the subject, although I suppose I should have given that Charlotte’s Web was my favorite childhood book.

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   de stijl

   August 14, 2020 at 7:30 pm

   @Steven L. Taylor:

   Trigger warning for us arachnophobes, please!

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