Today's creature's
May 7, 2016 10:39:48 #
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May 7, 2016 14:33:00 #
May 7, 2016 15:26:20 #
Tom DePuy wrote:
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Tom, I don't know the name of it but I have seen that skink in my garden. Had to take it away from the cat. The spider is fantastic!
May 7, 2016 16:25:27 #
Beautiful closeups, Tom, and you must have embarrassed the skink. It's blushing. :-D
May 7, 2016 17:24:42 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
Your spider is an Orchard orbweaver (Leucauge venusta).
:thumbup: :D
May 7, 2016 17:25:35 #
Corolyn wrote:
Tom, I don't know the name of it but I have seen that skink in my garden. Had to take it away from the cat. The spider is fantastic!
Actually had two of them but the other would not come out from hiding...thanks for commenting
May 7, 2016 17:26:21 #
Dixiegirl wrote:
Beautiful closeups, Tom, and you must have embarrassed the skink. It's blushing. :-D
lol...I probably did ...it was early and I was still in my jammies...lol
May 7, 2016 18:06:52 #
May 7, 2016 18:09:16 #
Tom DePuy wrote:
lol...I probably did ...it was early and I was still in my jammies...lol
:lol:
May 8, 2016 09:13:39 #
Tom
Cool photos the spider is fantastic a real hairy guy :thumbup:
chuck
Cool photos the spider is fantastic a real hairy guy :thumbup:
chuck
May 8, 2016 20:58:28 #
The skink is an old male broad-headed skink, Eumeces laticeps, sometimes called a 'scorpion'. Looks like somebody else got to the tail first: it's tail has been broken and regrown, twice I think. Interesting that they re-grow the tail, but not the vertebra of the backbone -- its just a long single spine of cartilage in the new tail.
Can't find a definitive call on whether the orchard spider is a true orb-weaver (family Araneidae) or a long-jawed spider (Tetragnathidae); even though it does not have particularly 'long jaws' it's usually considered the latter.
Can't find a definitive call on whether the orchard spider is a true orb-weaver (family Araneidae) or a long-jawed spider (Tetragnathidae); even though it does not have particularly 'long jaws' it's usually considered the latter.
May 8, 2016 21:01:21 #
Tom DePuy wrote:
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Love the first one - hate spiders. Great captures both of them.
May 9, 2016 00:25:34 #
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