arachnophobia ,omg where is it

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I was stung by a scorpion when I was a child and when playing with some boulders and such, close to the lake where we lived back then.

Does this count? :D It's etched to my memories and the pain and the shock I felt then is still as vivid as ever.

Interesting enough, I could of died that day as result, if I wasn't taken to the emergency room in time because I was merely 5 years old, but instead I developed a fondness for these creatures, accompanied with respect for their way of life. It was acting merely in defense of its own life and babies and it was I who disturbed the stone that they lived under by attempting to pick it up to play...

I wonder though, how does Spiderman do it? I haven't shown signs of Scorpiongirl flowing in my neurological and blood streams. I must be missing these heros' cue somewhere! :D

Maybe someday...

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Well I'm happy too admit one Yildiz to the exclusive Spider club on the strength of being stung by a Scorpion, that's probably overqualified for admittance actually. I've only ever seen a few Scorpions here, I saw one small one crawling accross the concrete floor of the hut once..just before it had an unfortunate encounter with a steel-toe-capped workboot :mrgreen: though I do remember thinking, I wonder where it's mother is. (I'm not a huge fan of things that live under rocks)...I probably should have taken a photo of it but it wasn't in very good shape by the time I remembered, anyway I was still using film at the time and the negitave would have ended up in a drawer in one of the many many film packets, a major time consuming search just to find it, like any other negitave I've wanted to find... :roll:
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Thank you Mr. President /chairman of the Spider Club, this is a huge honour! :D

Greg, they love concrete floors of huts. I saw some in a newly constructed hut once in a desert environment, where they take refuge from direct sunlight and heat. Naturally, they are dangerous so you probably did the right thing...

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Greg Beetham wrote:Well I'm happy too admit one Yildiz to the exclusive Spider club on the strength of being stung by a Scorpion, that's probably overqualified for admittance actually. I've only ever seen a few Scorpions here, I saw one small one crawling accross the concrete floor of the hut once..just before it had an unfortunate encounter with a steel-toe-capped workboot :mrgreen: though I do remember thinking, I wonder where it's mother is. (I'm not a huge fan of things that live under rocks)...I probably should have taken a photo of it but it wasn't in very good shape by the time I remembered, anyway I was still using film at the time and the negitave would have ended up in a drawer in one of the many many film packets, a major time consuming search just to find it, like any other negitave I've wanted to find... :roll:
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Just for something completely different I collected a little jumping spider today (on me) while I was tidying up, I only noticed it when it jumped back off, so I thought I might as well take a photo or two for my old mate Birma especially. :lol:
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Ok, so I've just picked myself up off the floor :shock: . So Greg, the spider was on you?! How did you escape? I suspect it was trying to drag you back to its nest/web/hide-out?

Very nice pictures, esepcially #2. Disturbing level of eye contact - that variety obvioulsy use binocular vision for hunting! How far do these guys jump?
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Hi Birma, glad you liked it ha ha. It was only small, about ½ inch long I reckon, I must have brushed against one of the plants. I’m not sure how far they can jump but they do cover short distances very quickly and you can’t really see the jump, it simply stops being there and is suddenly here kind of thing, if you watch very carefully you can sometimes see a blurred motion but it’s very hard too see. (mind you I don’t know if it’s actually called a jumping spider, it’s just that I’ve seen them before…jumping, I was wondering if it was going to jump onto my macro lens as I’m sure it was probably within range…briefly) :lol:
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Great captures Greg! Love #2 :-)
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Greg, those are great!
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Wow!! Gotta say Nr 2 works for me!!
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Thanks Zeb, Henry and darius_fkrois, after seeing that one through the lens I’m sort of grateful that I’m not some small bug that spiders like too eat.
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Nice catch.

Spider are so beautiful to take in picture but also so scary ... , Too much time when I was trying to take one, I found another one on me in the shooting mostly due to the fact that we not moving in Macro photo and poor spider think it is time to put a web on you ...

I'm lucky that in Quebec we have winter to make spider stop growing ...

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Thanks Frank, ha ha yeah that’s a good one, someone taking so long to take a macro shot that a spider built a web on them….I believe every word. :lol:
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Those are some great spider shots Greg, I love the catch light in the spider's main? eyes in the second one. That little guy looks pretty ferocious...
This is one from '09 taken with my newly acquired Minolta 50 1.7 and a200. I've always liked Orb Spiders.. from a distance anyway! :lol:
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Thanks John, that’s a good one of the Orb Spider, good bokeh, there is a spider here that makes that zigzagy mark on the web, a St Andrews Cross Spider I think it’s called, but the markings on the spider itself are different, stripes instead of spots.
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Ps I agree about keeping the distance, spiders are dangerous.
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I guess if we're going to have a thread about spiders, I could add one more to the mix. This one had a body that must have been around 3 inches long, and a wing-span (so to speak) around 8 or 9 inches. Some things grow large in the Philippines!

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