Sunday, December 5

When Mr Brown calls ....

... "Mouse, come quick, bring Rupert".
It's always best to drop everything and do exactly as he says. So far he's never let me down on the exciting-discovery-in-the-garden stakes*.
This morning he thought he'd found me a stick insect! It wasn't though, he wasn't wearing his glasses and closer, pointy-mouse-eyed, inspection revealed 8 legs, not 6.Still, what an amazing looking beastie!
A quick google and I think I've identified her, a Deinopis Subrfua, also known as a Rufous-Net-Casting Spider. Her 2 beady little eyes right at the front are the give away I think.Rest assured, I'll be stalking Ms Deinopis until I catch her wielding her net.
In other, spider-related, news a golden orb weaver wove her web in the best human-catching spot, just near the back steps. We never actually got caught because the web always had something in it, be it some Jacaranda flowers, or a poor desiccated xmas beetle.I'm forgiving the killing of the harbinger of xmas because, as you can see, she also caught one of those blood sucking little fuckers, a mosquito.

* Nor the cute-bebe-animal-on- TV stakes, or the freaky-person-doing/wearing-something-odd stakes either!

7 comments:

S said...

that is some serious zoom!

Zoomie said...

What a marvelous, leggy spider! Hope you can catch (and photograph) it casting its web!

cookiecrumb said...

That is the classic stick figure. With eyes in its crotch.

Pink Granite said...

Wild!
Literally.
;o)

Zoomie said...

Maybe those are his balls, rather than his eyes?

cookiecrumb said...

Zoomie, no, I think it's female, because that item between it's eyes is definitely a vajayjay.

Ms Brown Mouse said...

I'm boggling here people, BOGGLING :)