Oct 4, 2007
In the Garden
Doing some gardening yesterday, and I was as surprised as ever at the diversity of life in amongst our collection of local flora. Upstairs for thinking found a similar spider I guess on his balcony – these are apparently found through Asia, and are very common in Japan, growing to quite respectable sizes.
We also have some great grasshoppers, lots of dragonflies and cicadas as well as a number of skinks living down the back of the house. No snakes yet though.
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elliott
nice spider photo. i would have gotten a closer shot but my zoom is crap and i was franky too damn scared to get within half a meter. as i learnt in vietnam, scary-looking spiders jump.
Oct 4th, 2007
psymeg
thanks mr E!
i had a look around on the internets and think what we have in the garden is nephila clavata – a member of the golden orb-web spider family. according to chooch they aren’t poisonous.
Oct 4th, 2007
elliott
it’s not the poison i’m worried about – it’s the jumping!
Oct 4th, 2007
psymeg
you don’t suffer from arachnecatapedaphobia do you?
Oct 5th, 2007
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