Images from:
1) SNS (Spider web) ‘Mid air’
2) Unsplash.com (Spider)
3) Pixabay.com (Ant)
4) Unsplash.com (Ant)
5) Pixabay.com (Horses)
6) Unsplash.com (Horse)
7) Unsplash.com (Bee)
8) Unsplash.com (Beehive)
9) Pixabay.com (Ox)
10) Unsplash.com (Ox)
Websites: Pixabay.com, Unsplash.com
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9-17 Here Comes the Sun – Critters enjoying the sunshine – Theme idea from Bayouwulf.
9-24 First Day of Fall – Critters playing in leaves, posing with fall decorations, etc.
Thank you, contributors!
Nice collection!
Thanks, Claudia!
Thank you Claudia. Hoping all of you iOtwrs have a great new week.
Thanks for the Sunday pause Lady C! althogh the “working” critters seem somewhat lacking in cuddliness…
…I just was out being taken for a run by my lomg legged Schauzapoo, who took me through EVERY SPIDER STREAMER in my yard. The spiders here don’t take the Sunday before Labor Day off either, it seems, and they almost caught them a fat, White fly that’s still combing the silk out of the defiant remains of his once-lush shock of hair.
I have parasailing spiders too. My creek gives them lots to dine on. You need to be aware when the spider kids go on their parachute journey tho, you can only see them if the sun is bright, otherwise they land on you en masse because they all leave at once…
https://youtu.be/keJNDG7Hu1U?si=Dn6tsh4FFER4VGhH
…happy Sunday everyone. Remember that spiders give a new meaning to “hit the silk”.
The beehive pic reminded me of this story I saw recently (and a story from my youth) about a guy moving a hive of bees.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9200989/Man-transports-bee-colony-holding-queen-fist-letting-insects-swarm-arm.html
When I was a teen (40+ years ago) the men I worked for digging ditches and myself were riding down the road and they saw an old man they knew in his old pickup truck coming toward us, except they couldn’t really see him and he kept wiping the inside of his windshield while we approached. They waved him down in the middle of the road to ask if he was alright. “Mr. Ed” told them that he was fine – he was just moving one of his beehives and he had to keep the windshield wiped clean of bees so he could see where he was going. They asked if he wasn’t afraid they would sting him and his reply was, “I ain’t worried …. I got the queen right’chere in my hand”. That still impresses me today.
That great big spider web is that where Shelob lurks in hiding. I don’t like spiders or snakes.
Some cool shots.
You’d hate my yard, I have both.
https://iotwreport.com/scary-critters/
https://iotwreport.com/strange-and-unusual/
Hey Bubba’s Bro, that sounds like an old codger, I knew as a kid in the 60-70’s. A local farmer who basically took care of all the hives for a good chunk of the TX Panhandle, including ours. While he could’ve gone by Ed, everyone knew him as Goose.
All of us kids would gather around to watch him work the hives…he would cut out a small nugget of comb for each of us. Dad helped, all suited up, head-to-toe, but Goose only wore a hat with netting to “Keep ’em from gettin’ in my mouth ‘n flyin’ up my nose”! Never saw him get stung…Dad usually did. One or more of us kids always did.
He was full of wisdom, kindness, and continual good humor…was like another uncle! He passed in the mid-80s.
IATS
TWD
The spider web is beautiful but spiders not so much. True story – those giant Wolf’s Head spiders that get in the basement laundry room get hair sprayed or spray starched to become crispy critters.
Oh, Oh, Oh! Just remembered the spider story
Live on a river and there’s lots of those “Wolf Spiders” (at least that’s what I think they are) in and around the seawall and pier. Some get rather large. Showed one of the LARGE ones to the kids and they wanted me to catch it so they could take it for “Show and Tell” at school. (Do they still do that?)
Anyway we put it in a large glass jar with holes punched in the lid so it “could breath”. Turns out part of the reason the body was so big was it was a female carrying lots and lots of eggs. Yep they hatched out and of course way small enough to fit though the “air holes.”
Momma was NOT AMUSED as we didn’t discover till most had escaped. Not show and tell on that one.