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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    The females have a funnel web so they rely on their food coming to them for the most part. I'm sure randy male spider make up some of their diet too.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Well a male spider is only really likely to mate once and his genes are then tied up with that female surviving so sacrificing himself for food is probably a good evolutionary tactic. Given the work involved in raising human children it does seem like a better life sometimes... :#
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Don't worry. Even when my wife was pregnant and ate everything else in the house I still managed to evade capture. I'm sneakier than I look. o:)
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    wild edges said:
    Don't worry. Even when my wife was pregnant and ate everything else in the house I still managed to evade capture. I'm sneakier than I look. o:)
     :D 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    So that’s where my other pink gardening glove is! 😲
    😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I always wonder how bugs like that know what colour they are. Maybe they don't know and are just attracted to that colour surface and evolution just favoured the ones that didn't fancy hanging out on a contrasting background.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • granmagranma Posts: 1,933
    Creepy crawlies  get picked up and put in greenhouse  or in garden shed.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Meter reading day today so I got to visit my meter box spider. Looks like she's been doing some good growing this month going by the shed skin.


    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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