
This Hawaiian Garden Spider spent a few days on the front door, waiting for prey. I didn’t see it catch anything, though I heard it had a bit of a tussle with a Jehovah’s Witness one day.
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well don’t you have a fabulously painted front door – think I’d be a bit daunted though if I met this gorgeous fellow
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Well, this is a female, much bigger than the little drab brown males, and she’s not at all scary.
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oh my apologies to her, and I will try and believe you but I am not great with spiders I don’t know!
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I wasn’t good with spiders either, but the more I watch them, the more I like them.
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yeah watching them and getting to know them definitely helps. I now have a few resident ones around the house, some quite large, and I am fine with them. They pay their rent!
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Its body looks bejeweled.
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The female has fabulous markings, especially when the light is right.
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Person of the cross meets a spider of the cross
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Someone or something is bound to get cross in such a meeting.
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Like the nuns driving at night when a vampire leapt onto the bonnet of their car.
Mother Superior said “Sister Mary, show him your cross.”
Sister Mary opened the window, leant out and said, “Oy you, fuck off”
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I’d pay to be there!
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Too funny, Graham. A nice-looking spider.
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The females are large and really beautiful, the males way smaller and a drab brown!
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Interesting. So often in the animal world it’s the other way around.
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omg – almost spit out my coffee with thisL a bit of a tussle with a Jehovah’s Witness
hahah
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Couldn’t resist!
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😉
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What Jo said! Scary looking spider, Graham. How nice it posed on the red door!
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The only one I’ve ever seen there. It’s a beautiful spider, not scary at all.
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Great capture
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Thanks Sheree.
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Did it win? It looks well capable, Graham xx
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I guess not or there would have been a very large bundle strapped to the door!
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