Many whom i know eat meat.
Some of them have two legs,
some of them have eight.
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NOTE: Now and then, since October is the month of Halloween here in the U.S., i will likely post a few more spider photos than usual; not that spiders are really all that “scary” but that people associate them with Halloween (which is kind of fun and silly at the same time). 🙂
Spider with Prey … Photo by Thomas Peace c. 2018
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Dramatic shot. Catches the spirit of Halloween.
Thanks much, Belinda! Fire up those pumpkins! 🙂
Disgusting and beautiful at the same time, Tom. Thank you for it.
Like much of nature! Thank you, Susan! 🙂
Love your poem and creepy photo! 🙂
Thank you, Scifi (who also lives among meat eaters). 🙂
I like spiders fine – outside! Right now the tarantulas are on the move, looking for mates.
Awesome! I removed a spider from our living room ceiling last, releasing it outside. 🙂
Fantastic photo! I look forward to more spider images! 🕷
Will do! Plenty more on the way. Thanks, Sabine! 🙂
I love spiders, love this photo, such detail 🙂
Thanks very much, Paul! I am very fond of this one too! 🙂
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Ok, Tom, I’ll brace myself to be scared silly!
To help you with this, scientists say that people, during their sleep, swallow around 8 spiders a year. 🙂
Tom…Now I’ll be sleep deprived!
Oops! 🙂
Aren’t you forgetting some four-legged ones? Nice poem and pics!
Woof Woof, Meow Meow! Thank you! 🙂
Love Halloween, spiders not so much.
I love both! 🙂
I’m not fond of anything that runs faster than I do so that includes spiders and centipedes, much as Tom has told me in the past they are beneficial for our environment and most are harmless. 🙂 But that said, one time a huge spider made a web on the left side of the garage door in the siding. I was horrified as I had to pass it to go in the garage – a single-car garage and the car takes up most of it. No wiggle room, must pass the spider to get into the car. That deep web was thick and had a dark hole where this spider lived and he would come out and sunbathe and catch his prey. I one time watched him take a fly and bind it up in a cocoon. I was morbidly fascinated and watched for a while, then went confidently into the garage to get into the car, knowing he would not attack me for a while as he was so busy with the fly. I’m shuddering thinking about it.
That was likely a Wolf spider. Wolf spiders are way more afraid of humans than we are of them; they may look scary but they are really big babies. No venom is in them that is harmful to human beings. 🙂
I am not at all afraid of spiders. It’s politicians that scare the hell out of me! They spin the deadliest webs of lies and untruths!
Just Googled and that was what I saw and it ran so quickly into that deep hole – made me break out in a sweat! I often favor critters over people – devotion and you know where you stand (most of the time). Hope Marla is home and resting comfortably.
They scurry into their hole because they are extremely afraid! They are really quite harmless (to people).
Marla, following her Sciatica surgery, is in a whole lot of pain and can hardly move (due to having to remain off of the anti-inflammatory Mobic medication for an extended period of time). She suffers a lot, unfortunately. She has to get nutrition via stomach tube feedings (due to cervical surgery complications in the past) and i have been helping her with those throughout the day.
What a great photo. I’ve gotten over my fear of spiders, but I still don’t like running face-first into those huge garden spider webs! That’s Halloween-creepy!
I’ll have Tiger Argiopes coming up this October. They are related to the Garden Spiders and are just as large. I sometimes inadvertently walk into their webbing where i sometimes do photos (thick in it) and have had them crawling on my face. They are harmless! 🙂
Great capture Tom! I am vegetarian too! 🙂
Thank you, Marcela!… and great to learn that you are a vegetarian! Awesome! (Make sure you get DHA from some source, even supplements.) 🙂
Thank you so much Tom for the information! 🙂
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwww! Why would anyone intentionally eat a spider?!?!?!