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T-Black
10-17-2011, 04:45 PM
I was watering my trees today and found this guy!

http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/ss238/The_Tyler_Black/IMG_0677.jpg

Did some research and I think it is a Jumping Spider more specifically a Bagheera Kiplingi, which is not venomous, and very aggresive to eat bugs! so i think ill leave him... What do yall think?

sunfish
10-17-2011, 06:15 PM
I was watering my trees today and found this guy!

http://i579.photobucket.com/albums/ss238/The_Tyler_Black/IMG_0677.jpg

Did some research and I think it is a Jumping Spider more specifically a Bagheera Kiplingi, which is not venomous, and very aggresive to eat bugs! so i think ill leave him... What do yall think?

Leave him:nanadrink:

Bob3
10-18-2011, 04:50 PM
Leave him:nanadrink: Heck, put out a "FREE RENT" sign, if you can figure out what language they can read!
:bananas_b
Jumping spiders have excellent eyesight & will sometimes respond to "greetings" of waving/wiggling the index & middle fingers around, sorta like a "squiggling peace sign".
Keep your distance at first, till she responds in kind, just in case you inadvertently say something offensive. ;)

T-Black
10-18-2011, 06:55 PM
Heck, put out a "FREE RENT" sign, if you can figure out what language they can read!
:bananas_b
Jumping spiders have excellent eyesight & will sometimes respond to "greetings" of waving/wiggling the index & middle fingers around, sorta like a "squiggling peace sign".
Keep your distance at first, till she responds in kind, just in case you inadvertently say something offensive. ;)

If only there was enough time in the day to sit with my new tenant and teach him to speak to me, or better yet to turn on the water and water the trees! lol
:08:

caliboy1994
10-19-2011, 10:54 AM
I found a black widow on my banana plant once. It has since disappeared...

Bob3
10-19-2011, 11:21 AM
I found a black widow on my banana plant once. It has since disappeared...
If you'd like more, we have tons of the critters around here & don't mind sharing. ;)
You probably have more than you think, they tend to be way more active at night.
You'll usually notice their webs first, they tend to be a disorganized mess of thin webbing, not the neat geometric net-like works of art that many other types of spiders spin.

caliboy1994
10-19-2011, 12:01 PM
Yeah, I know. I've seen brown widows, black widows, false widows, garden spiders, blue-bellied lizards, etc. Brown widow webs look a little more organized than black widow webs. Our backyard is full of them! I have yet to see a wild tarantula though. They're supposed to come out in the fall. Just yesterday I saw a fully grown female black widow on the wall of my house. I also caught a baby lizard the other day too.

Darkman
10-22-2011, 05:00 PM
All spiders, bees, wasps, lizards, geckos, tortoises, turtles (but I don't have water yet) salamanders, snakes, toads, frogs and many birds are welcome in my yard and garden areas. Most all of them serve a beneficial purpose. I especially like the green anole lizards. They are a bug eating machines.

caliboy1994
11-01-2011, 09:06 PM
Just found a massive funnel web spider in one of the petioles on my plant the other day.

Darkman
11-02-2011, 08:10 PM
When I was growing up I used to catch bugs and feed the spiders. I especially loved to find roaches and serve them up. I hate roaches. Nasty things.

caliboy1994
11-02-2011, 11:26 PM
Sounds just like me! I would always feed earwigs and crickets to spiders. And I HATE roaches, so much that I won't even touch them!

Darkman
11-05-2011, 04:47 PM
Sounds just like me! I would always feed earwigs and crickets to spiders. And I HATE roaches, so much that I won't even touch them!

That reminded me I used to feed crickets too harvester ants. We used to have them in the fields near my house but they have disappeared. Their primary predator has also disappeared, the horny toad lizard. That was one cool lizard.

caliboy1994
11-05-2011, 04:50 PM
That reminded me I used to feed crickets too harvester ants. We used to have them in the fields near my house but they have disappeared. Their primary predator has also disappeared, the horny toad lizard. That was one cool lizard.

You can blame that on the Argentine ants, an invasive species. They're those tiny little ants I find all over my yard.