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Offline NUKE

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« Reply #45 on: November 18, 2005, 10:44:19 PM »
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I would bet the rent money that you have 2 different spiders there. The close up is a jumping spider (forget the genus, but it starts with an 'S'). They do not use webs to catch food, although they do have web spinning ability.


I'm not sure MT, but I have since looked up jumping spiders, and none that  I have found look like the one in my pic. Mostly, jumping spiders have very a distinctive set of eight eyes....this one doesn't really look like any I have found on the "web", pun intended.

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« Reply #46 on: November 19, 2005, 12:31:51 AM »
Spiders hunt.
Spiders will wait.
Spiders will attack.
Spiders hold Grudges.
Spiders will Revenge the Death of others...
Spiders will attack and then come back....
Spiders live in Tunnels....
Spiders grow huge...
Spiders have no Love.
Spiders are the Spawn of Satan...
Spiders are Evil!

I know....

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« Reply #47 on: November 19, 2005, 01:50:26 PM »
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I'm not sure MT, but I have since looked up jumping spiders, and none that  I have found look like the one in my pic. Mostly, jumping spiders have very a distinctive set of eight eyes....this one doesn't really look like any I have found on the "web", pun intended.


Its a jumping Spider.

http://tolweb.org/accessory/NA_Jumping_Spiders:_Sidusa?acc_id=2147

You got a side view of one of his big eyes.


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« Reply #48 on: November 19, 2005, 02:04:37 PM »
Thats for sure a jumping spider in your 2nd pic nuke. My house/yard is overrun with them..the exact same color and pattern. I love those little guys..Harmless, you can hold em in your hand.
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« Reply #49 on: November 19, 2005, 03:21:50 PM »
It looks similar, but not the same. My spider has what looks like a snout right in front with one big  eye on it in the middle, in addition to the eye on the side. Other than those eyes, none are apparent in the front.

Also, it's front section was a lot smaller than the back.

It was on a pool fence with no vegitation around, just dirt. He was at the top of the fence right at the edge of the web, then he spun a web down the fence, which looked just like the web he was near. Also, he was the same size and color as the one in the web.... very, very small.

I first saw the web, then got my camera to take a picture of the web. I then saw the spider right above the web, but no other spider was in the web.

I have a higher resolution picture of it where you can see his eyes better.

The spider in my pick has two grabbers/claws (don't know the term) between it's 1st and second legs on each side, and they are almost as long as the legs themselves. The jumping spider pic has the two smaller claws right in the front, not between it's legs.

From above, the spider in my pic has legs do that not extend very far past it's body  .....it was almost round looking from above.

I'm almost 100% sure it's the same spider that was in the web. Are any web dwelling spiders similar looking?

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« Reply #50 on: November 19, 2005, 05:18:15 PM »
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« Reply #51 on: November 19, 2005, 05:51:35 PM »
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I would spend the better parts of my younger days feeding these suckers grasshoppers. Good times:aok