Spider caught a big fly!

[palsgraf_polka]

My boss called me into his office to show me that his window spider (he's been there for almost a year!) caught a big fly and was busy sucking it dry. I, of course, had to take a picture!



That thing that looks like a tiny mouse in the front of the spider is the fly. Nature is so cool.

Comments

[ludicrous.livejournal.com]

Who the hell hates SPIDERS???? They must be a real "fly guy". And they deserve to be disturbed by spidery pictures, I would say.

[palsgraf-polka.livejournal.com]

Seriously, some people freak about spiders. I play this game on Facebook called Treasure Madness and there's a bonus round to get gold and it was dodging these spiders to capture gold nuggets and people complained so much they made another version you can choose with skeleton hands instead of spiders and they apologized for the spiders. That's patently ridiculous. But, I cut the image on the odd chance that someone freaks by seeing spiders sucking guts.

[emt420.livejournal.com]

That is incredibly cool.

I had a porch spider when I lived in Hamilton. Or rather, several generations of spiders, because they were there for 4 years. Some of the most amazing webs I've ever seen.

[palsgraf-polka.livejournal.com]

Hey you're stoned right now so it's a good time to ask - what did you think about that guy who died because the paramedics refused to go through the snow? Would you have gone through the snow?

[cyberbertha.livejournal.com]

You mean the one in Pittsburgh? There's a comment from someone within the Pittsburgh EMS system with a little more information. Seems the EMS crews were all going through snow, and sometimes getting stuck for hours. Several crews tried to get to this guy but couldn't make it, and then they were told to disregard the call so they went on to the next call. None of them were told that this was a return call.

Sounds like a clusterfuck in management and operations, rather than a failing of the EMS crews themselves.

[toohipanna.livejournal.com]

i love spiders.they are beautiful and create such beautiful things.

[arthur-sc-king.livejournal.com]

They eat mosquitoes.

That's good enough for me.

[vyrdolak.livejournal.com]

I had a spider living in one of my bathrooms. One day I noticed a larger spider was creeping up on it and getting ready to eat it, so I intercepted the aggressor with some TP and squashed it. But my spider buddy must have been made that I messed up its web because it went elsewhere after that.

I have killed a few huge spiders in my house, which I now regret. Except for the one that almost jumped on my hand as I removed something from a cabinet, soon after I moved in. That wasn't one of the monsters though, some of them you could hear when they walked they were so large.

[cyberbertha.livejournal.com]

I don't know much about spiders; I wouldn't have known whether it was trying to eat the first spider or looking for love. Talk about the ultimate cockblock.

[vyrdolak.livejournal.com]

You may be right. Spidey-sex usually involved copulation, then eating.

[shoe5005.livejournal.com]

i HATE HATE HATE spiders, but I looked anyway.