30-06-2019, 04:09 AM
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I was looking at some of my plants this morning and thought you might like these. I originally planted them to stop my kids jumping over the fence and make them use the gate (the gate has long since gone).Then there was this clever little spider. Usually this type of spider takes a leaf and rolls it up to hide in while it waits for prey. evenually the leaf dries out and becomes brittle so the spider has to make another nest. This is the spider's old home.
Its new one has been made from a paint flake from when my kids painted my house recently. I wonder if this home will last for 10 years?
It got very shy when I started to take a photo of its new home.
30-06-2019, 06:49 AM
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I could never get my red hot pokers to flower.
Yours look lovely!
I love the idea of a bashful spider!
Spiders are great, aren't they? And so diverse! A lot of people don't realise that not all spiders spin orb webs; some of them are very ingenious in what they do.
Like bees. I remember my first encounter with a leaf-cutter bee in my garden, many years ago, using its built-in circular 'pastry cutter' to take circles out of my beech leaves, and on seeing it flying to and from my garden table, found a brilliant little nest made of the leaf circles underneath the table!
Then there are wasps. I know we hate them in close proximity, but when they make their paper nests, they are brilliant! I found an empty one in my disused shed, and tried to keep it, but they crumble as soon as you try to move them.
It was a work of art, though.
Ain't nature wunnerful?
Saw foxy in my garden earlier this morning, which surprised me a bit, as the jungle is finally starting to go. They were there a lot when it was very overgrown.
07-07-2019, 12:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Tiffany
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I like the White Ibis photo, Bruce. Didn't realise they scavenged in urban bins.
This was taken a while earlier in the same park - the other birds (the Corellas) in the picture are becoming a pest in some country towns by sheer weight of numbers.
You'll have to forgive these photos as they are just snapped with my phone.
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