What interesting creatures live in your garden?

[sumi]

It's that time of the year, it seems...

 

[Pulsegleaner]

Careful. My knowledge of African spiders is sketchy, but that looks like a Huntsman, and they're venomous (and rather aggressive)

 

[sumi]

Thanks, I used the zoom on the camera to get close enough and asked DH to place the ruler I don't go near them since I got bit by a venomous spider when I was 14. I would not wish that on my worst enemy. Since then I've been VERY careful around them, all of them, regardless of what they are.

 

[Smart Red]

Thanks a lot, @sumi! Since you first started talking about spiders the size of a hand, I've had dreams of such a spider crawling up and around my hands, arms and shoulders . . . then disappearing on me. Not to be found for several moments before the crawling up and around began again.

Of course, being an educator, I was sharing the spider with school children -- not worried about myself, but whether a child might find the spider and get hurt before I catch it again.

Nope! I'd much prefer to have dreams of roses than spiders. More flower fotos and less spider sightings, please.

 

[sumi]

Sorry @Smart Red Your dream was my reality a few years ago when I removed a "dead" spider from a bathroom for a friend and the thing miraculously recovered. The spider got a free flying lesson and was never seen again and people from the street came running to see what all the screaming was about Did I mention I was work at the time?

I'm getting my butt kicked by a sinus infection at the moment, so I didn't move around much today, but I have some rose bushes earmarked to photograph, just for you.

 

[canesisters]

 

[sumi]

 

[Smart Red]

@canesisters, you do amazing things with those emoticons! I stand in awe!

 

[goatgurl]

we have a lot of wolf spiders around here and in the fall they all think they should move into the house. usually i scoop them up and toss them back outside but was in a hurry the other day, couldn't find a 'scooper' so reached out and smacked it with my shoe. at least 100 baby spiders took off running around my bedroom with me doing the spider dance till i didn't see anything else moving. now i wait for the escapees to crawl up into bed with me...... second picture is of this guy who was hanging on my driveway gate. sorry the picture is kind of blurry. looked it up and it is a variegated fritillary butterfly. the first picture is a mama hummer and her 'friend' she was not thrilled to having the praying mantis on her feeder and finally decided to eat on the other side to keep away from it.

 

[sumi]

This wasn't in our garden (thankfully!), but interesting nonetheless. We took DS and his friends to the river for a swim and on the way back spotted this beauty in the middle of the river: