Aaaaaaargh!!!!!!!! Got me again. Strolled out to check the rain gauge as we finally had a shower yesterday. Must have encountered a thirty-footer that decided to wrap itself around my entire body before I escaped. Not good when it gets in your hair. Worse for those of us with full beards, especially gray ones. No matter what you do, you know it's still there, somewhere.
Surveying out in the woods/tall weeds/underbrush about late September is horrible. Sometimes those octo-pedy critters decide to come along for the ride.
Walk softly and carry a big stick...
The measure of a "real" man is how he acts when he inadvertently walks through spiderwebs across the path in the deep woods.?ÿ
Web catchers are a MUST HAVE product, for an ATV.
N
I just love Golden Orb Weavers. ?????ÿ
@flga
Sure you do. You are retired and won't ever walk amongst them again.
My wife has crossed Australia off the list of possible places to live because of the spider web photos she has seen on the web.
@paden-cash Screaming like a little girl while slapping my head like one of the Three Stooges.
Head first into a big wet spider web, is an initiatory rite, for becoming a land surveyor!?ÿ
@nate-the-surveyor I did that this morning while taking my dog for a walk. Yep, it'll give the Willies for a second but it has happened so many times now that you just brush it off (pun intended).
Andy
I have been taught there is some good reason for the existence of every living creature.?ÿ That training leaves my head immediately during encounters of the webbed kind.
I have been taught there is some good reason for the existence of every living creature.
True, but there is also a good reason to avoid contact with some of them.
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I just posted this over in humor, but it it fitting for this topic as well. ???? ?????ÿ
@flga Never heard them called that. Banana spiders look a lot like that. It seems like they want to spin their webs around chest or head high for some reason.
I always called them Banana Spiders too, until a Park Ranger (who was giving me a warning/lecture about fines associated with relocating a gopher tortoise in FL {the gopher was on the shoulder of I-4}) corrected me. ????
@flga
Many years ago. Have forgotten most of what I read.
