The worst sensor dust you have ever seen !

gus

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Elaine

Oh my...that's a pretty bad case! My husband would be freaking out right now! Well, I would too if I had to cross their path every day! Yikes!

Skippy

gus wrote:

I mean i like spiders i really do but the last count around my house was over 200 & some are getting to be a few inches across.

The buggars have a nasty habit of building a web over my path at night so i walk out in the morning & get a spider in the face.

Awwwwwwwww I wanna be there... dang it!
I'd be beside meself with joy if I came across a sight like that Gus

Are these all Orbs Gus ??? ..... Skippy
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schmoo

oh my $%#$%@#@ god



Actually, that looks like my entire trip to Kyoto last month.

Raphy

Maybe you should move ... I'd be screaming like a little schoolgirl...

saurora

He-he...that 2nd shot is surreal. It looks like it's raining spiders! I can only imagine what my dreams would be at night if I had that many of those little guys in my face everyday!

gus

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speedracer04

i would have to move...fast haha

DoctorIt

but think of all the bugs they're eating!


some of those look pretty big, you better keep an eye on splodge

JohnC

Spiders don't bother me because they eat other pesky bugs.

But they do get in the way and you have too many, so I'd get out the Raid.

gluwater

gus wrote:

The buggars have a nasty habit of building a web over my path at night so i walk out in the morning & get a spider in the face.

How do you think they feel getting hit by a Gus in the face every morning? :hide You're nuts, I'm not afraid of spiders but that's ridiculous.

Dogdots

:wow :eek1 Those would keep me inside for sure.......

tlee

I like spiders, but not that many--and definitely not on me. I'd probably put aside my fear, and go get the camera....

Thanks for sharing your photos!

gus

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schmoo

gus wrote:

Spiders are a LOT easier to work out than people. Its been a long time since a death from a spider bite here (actually since they made the antivenene for the funnel web bite) but about 500 die on our roads each year but everyone happily jumps in a car.....but show 'em a spider & they freak

Trust me, if I walked out my front door and saw a bunch of acrobats a la Cirque du Soleil just hanging out over my yard like those spiders I'd freak out, too.

DavidTO

Yabbut Gus, when they get in their cars they're too drunk to care.

Like spiders or not, that's just too dang many for my taste.

nybor7

SCARY stuff alright.
I almost walked into th espider shown here 2 summers ago. She scared the wits out of me. I snapped a quickie with my HP point and shoot. The weather was soooo hot that the lens fogged up immediately. The photo is NOT goo, I know. Just throwing it up here to show the spider.
I emailed a University in Utah asking if she was venomous. Nope, just large and pretty(for a spider). She is called a Yellow/Black Agriope.
I hope to take more of her offspring next Summer. This last summer we saw about a dozen of her kind 20' into the woods behind our home.

Robyn

ChrisJ

Awesome. I sometimes feel we have that many Black Widows around our house. But they skulk in the shadows and their webs are just a big mess.

JaredAnderson

Two things:

1. Where do you live(city/state or county/state will do, my wife wants to make sure that we'll never live there)?

2. A fun picture idea. Use something that is a large structure(radio tower, building, or even the phone polls that I saw in the pictures) as the background then play with a very small apeture to get a great depth of field and the various compression on the lens. I.E. zoom in really far from a ways back and you can isolate a spider or spiders and put them on the large structure making them look King Kong size. I did this with a small apeture and a wide angle and got this result:

The only photoshoping needed was to move a stray web strand and I got some fun results(it took one of my friends a half an hour to figure out that the spider was about as big as a quarter).

p.s. while backing up with the camera at you eye, for my sake, don't back into one of those spiders, I think I'll feel it from here!

gus

ChrisJ wrote:

Awesome. I sometimes feel we have that many Black Widows around our house. But they skulk in the shadows and their webs are just a big mess.

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gus

DavidTO wrote:

Yabbut Gus, when they get in their cars they're too drunk to care.

Like spiders or not, that's just too dang many for my taste.

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marlof

gus wrote:

I love spiders as much as my mac.

I never thought I'd see the day where gus would exclaim his love for any kind of technology. It seems so ungusly.

aerialphoto

Neato - wish I'd gone out to take more pictures of ours. We had one build a massive web between our two houses here in Florida, and there were tons of them building webs over top of the roads for several miles going south of here. I've seen more this year than usual - and even after a few cold snaps there are still a lot of huge webs still being maintained.

HarveyMushman

ChrisJ wrote:

Awesome. I sometimes feel we have that many Black Widows around our house. But they skulk in the shadows and their webs are just a big mess.

Careful walking around Virginia racetracks too . . .

W.W. Webster

gus wrote:

.... but about 500 die on our roads each year but everyone happily jumps in a car ...

Not that few!

JenGrace

Yeesh...as a science educator I know some about the importance of spiders, but they still freak me out a little bit. That many would probably freak me out more than a little bit...

Slinky0390

spiders freak the hell out of me :yikes i couldnt deal with them lol, time for the little pyro in you to come out with the lighter and wd-40