I Like Turkeys
Crowing
Hopefully this isn’t too dislikable a topic. I have a bunch of spiders in my yard, so I am constantly running into them. Lately i’ve just begun to like them, and i suppose I’d like to talk about them.
My favorites are definitely the orbweavers. I have a bunch of spiny backed and golden silk orbweavers in my yard. The golden silks tend to hang around the frontal emu pens, where it’s more wooded. They‘ll make these group nests, where I’ll see 3 or more females, then occasionally their male partners. I usually find spiny backed ones behind that area, nesting on or between some of the smaller trees in my backyard.
this is a male/female pair of golden silk orbweavers below. The male is tinier, the female is the big colorful one. There were 1 or 2 more pairs on that same nest.
This, I found a giant grasshopper or cricket in the nest of a golden silk orbweaver pair. It disappeared the next day. The nest has since come down, sadly. I’m not sure where the female went.
This girl below is who I called “the giant”. Photos don’t do her justice, she was massive. She nested right beside my turkey pens. Her nest has disappeared too, as has she. A spiny back is now nesting where she was.
And a spiny backed orbweaver. They‘re super cute.
If anyone else has spider photos to share, feel free. I definitely do. I just really want to talk about spiders for some reason.
My favorites are definitely the orbweavers. I have a bunch of spiny backed and golden silk orbweavers in my yard. The golden silks tend to hang around the frontal emu pens, where it’s more wooded. They‘ll make these group nests, where I’ll see 3 or more females, then occasionally their male partners. I usually find spiny backed ones behind that area, nesting on or between some of the smaller trees in my backyard.
this is a male/female pair of golden silk orbweavers below. The male is tinier, the female is the big colorful one. There were 1 or 2 more pairs on that same nest.
This, I found a giant grasshopper or cricket in the nest of a golden silk orbweaver pair. It disappeared the next day. The nest has since come down, sadly. I’m not sure where the female went.
This girl below is who I called “the giant”. Photos don’t do her justice, she was massive. She nested right beside my turkey pens. Her nest has disappeared too, as has she. A spiny back is now nesting where she was.
And a spiny backed orbweaver. They‘re super cute.
If anyone else has spider photos to share, feel free. I definitely do. I just really want to talk about spiders for some reason.
They are fairly harmless to humans, their mouths are too small to bite and inject venom. But they can shoot their tiny hairy quills into the eyes of dogs or cats that get too close.
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