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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => DOWN UNDER BEEKEEPING => Topic started by: hardwood on March 07, 2012, 03:53:38 pm

Title: Spiders
Post by: hardwood on March 07, 2012, 03:53:38 pm

This is crazy! Any of you aussies see this?

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/thousands-spiders-blanket-australian-farm-escaping-flood-165958059.html (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/thousands-spiders-blanket-australian-farm-escaping-flood-165958059.html)

Scott

Title: Re: Spiders
Post by: BlueBee on March 07, 2012, 05:35:08 pm

Wow!  That does look like a scene right out of a horror movie.

Thanks Scott, now I'm going to have nightmares tonight!

Creepy creepy creepy......uuuuughhh

Title: Re: Spiders
Post by: ShaneJ on March 07, 2012, 06:21:35 pm

I hate spiders and I can tell you if I ever saw a tree like that around here, it would get a damm good coating of something flammable and then set a light  :evil:

Title: Re: Spiders
Post by: Lone on March 07, 2012, 08:25:51 pm

I'd set the whole farm alight.

Title: Re: Spiders
Post by: bernsad on March 08, 2012, 12:36:52 am

Are you kidding? I thought it looked fantastic. It's a pity we're not closer (7-8 hours drive), I'd go take a look.

Title: Re: Spiders
Post by: Harpo on March 08, 2012, 06:50:21 am

I AGREE WITH BERNSTAD 100%!!!!

And when you think about it - imagine the huge favour they're doing for the community by catching the 10's of 1000's of mozzies which would be hatching out of the flood waters...

ShaneJ - wouldn't the thought of having your blood drained overnight by the mini vampires freak you more???   :lau:

Title: Re: Spiders
Post by: ShaneJ on March 08, 2012, 07:58:13 am

I guess it depends what the mini vampires look like. I've seen some vampire shows advertised on TV lately and I reckon I could handle one of those vampires. But if you're talking the kind with lots of hairy legs I'd be freaked.  :? :?

Title: Re: Spiders
Post by: Lone on March 08, 2012, 08:08:39 am

I'm with Shane 200%.

Normal insects only have 6 legs.

Title: Re: Spiders
Post by: gdoten on March 08, 2012, 01:11:53 pm

Aw c’mon now, spiders are our friends. The March issue of “Bee Culture” magazine has an article titled, well, “Spiders” by Jennifer Berry It was an interesting read. She tells a story about how in 1929 the Tennessee governors mansion was overrun with brown recluse spiders. The governor’s wife wouldn’t let them fumigate so instead an extension agent put in 12x12 inch sticky traps all over every floor of the place. One day later he picked them up and each was apparently completely covered with the spiders.

Freaky? I would say. She ends the article reminding us that the general public runs screaming when the sound of bees is nearby. Do beeks really run from spiders or, as Jennifer calls it, doing the “spider dance”? Although she does have a great picture of a black widow spider resting on one of her hives. I suppose I’d run from that.

OK, that Oz thing is pretty freaky too.