>Be prepared to dodge some spider webs....BIG spider webs, with BIG
>spiders.
>
>All the best,
>Aili
I think you are referring to what we call Bannana Spiders where I
grew up in Florida. We do grow them BIG down here. I _strongly_
suggest that anyone who decides to go into the woods (particularly
wetlands) off well marked trails down here carry a spider stick. Any
stick will do and you just wave it in front of you like a magic wand
to pull down any spider webs before you walk into them. I can tell
you from experiences it is no fun to get tangled in one of those
webs with a spider as big as your hand who is not very happy. The
bright side is I don't believe they are poisonous, just scary.
--
Regards,
Eric Mings
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Florida Spiders: was Postings
2 messages in this thread |
Started on 2002-01-17
[LbNA] Florida Spiders: was Postings
From: Eric Mings (elm@letterboxing.com) |
Date: 2002-01-17 08:08:27 UTC-05:00
Re: [LbNA] Florida Spiders: was Postings
From: defygravity2001 (defygravity@snet.net) |
Date: 2002-01-23 04:04:36 UTC
Hi Eric,
I looked up two of the three spiders I encountered on the net, one was
the golden silk spider (very pretty) another was the yellow & black
agriope (I'm on memory, sorry if its spelled wrong). We the yellow &
black ones in CT but not as large. The third which I could not
identify was a fuzzy gray with red. I photographed them all.
We had taken a hitchhiker down with us to leave there, but we ended up
bringing it back home. As a consolation, I color-copied my pictures,
cropped them and taped them into the hitchhiker's log book, before
leaving it at a Rhode Island letterbox. Oh well, best of intentions.
Yours,
Aili
--- In letterbox-usa@y..., Eric Mings wrote:
> >Be prepared to dodge some spider webs....BIG spider webs, with BIG
> >spiders.
> >
> >All the best,
> >Aili
>
> I think you are referring to what we call Bannana Spiders where I
> grew up in Florida. We do grow them BIG down here. I _strongly_
> suggest that anyone who decides to go into the woods (particularly
> wetlands) off well marked trails down here carry a spider stick. Any
> stick will do and you just wave it in front of you like a magic wand
> to pull down any spider webs before you walk into them. I can tell
> you from experiences it is no fun to get tangled in one of those
> webs with a spider as big as your hand who is not very happy. The
> bright side is I don't believe they are poisonous, just scary.
> --
> Regards,
>
> Eric Mings
>
> Letterboxing International: http://www.letterboxing.com
> StoneStashing: http://www.stonestashing.com
I looked up two of the three spiders I encountered on the net, one was
the golden silk spider (very pretty) another was the yellow & black
agriope (I'm on memory, sorry if its spelled wrong). We the yellow &
black ones in CT but not as large. The third which I could not
identify was a fuzzy gray with red. I photographed them all.
We had taken a hitchhiker down with us to leave there, but we ended up
bringing it back home. As a consolation, I color-copied my pictures,
cropped them and taped them into the hitchhiker's log book, before
leaving it at a Rhode Island letterbox. Oh well, best of intentions.
Yours,
Aili
--- In letterbox-usa@y..., Eric Mings
> >Be prepared to dodge some spider webs....BIG spider webs, with BIG
> >spiders.
> >
> >All the best,
> >Aili
>
> I think you are referring to what we call Bannana Spiders where I
> grew up in Florida. We do grow them BIG down here. I _strongly_
> suggest that anyone who decides to go into the woods (particularly
> wetlands) off well marked trails down here carry a spider stick. Any
> stick will do and you just wave it in front of you like a magic wand
> to pull down any spider webs before you walk into them. I can tell
> you from experiences it is no fun to get tangled in one of those
> webs with a spider as big as your hand who is not very happy. The
> bright side is I don't believe they are poisonous, just scary.
> --
> Regards,
>
> Eric Mings
>
> Letterboxing International: http://www.letterboxing.com
> StoneStashing: http://www.stonestashing.com