OT Spiders

[Bill]

Yes I know I should be asking in a gardening newsgroup but as they say there are a lot of knowledgeable people here so I thought I'd ask here first.

Does anyone know if we have green spiders in the UK? I just found this one in the garden and it looked a bit out of place, the green part was about 4mm long. Also, although not shown in the photo it had spun a web across the curve of the leaf it was on and appeared to be hiding behind it, not a style I've seen before, maybe I should get out more?

[Mary Fisher]

I've never seen anything like it!

Do ask in uk.rec.gardening, there are some very clever folk there, I think I could name one who'd answer your question.

Mary

[Paul Herber]

[Ziggur]

Could be an Araneus cucurbitinus.

Take a look here -

[Ziggur]

[robgraham]

Hmm - I thought the plant world was bad for it's naming, but I see that this poor creature has 8 synonyms given in it's Wikipedia entry !

Interesting what DIY covers !!

Rob

[mogga]

playing hide and seek with them.

[Bill]

In message , mogga writes

ask.

[John Rumm]

interesting ;-) Some sort of transmitter PA stage by the looks of it?

[Bob Eager]

Looks like a pair of old 4CX250s or similar. Someone who's had their licence for roughly 33/35 years...

[Bill]

In message , Bob Eager writes

A pair of 8877s / 3CX1500A7 ?kW on 13.5MHz, ex plasma generator, the PA coil is 10mm tube! One of my projects that is waiting for a bit of spare time, seems a shame just to have it on 20m, which it may just about go on as is.

Lord help one of those spiders if it wandered in there!

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[Bob Eager]

Haven't done any myself for many years...was I right about the number of years?

[Bill]

In message , Bob Eager writes

34 years , Oh no I'm old! Thanks I was having a good day until I just worked that out! :-)

[Bob Eager]

Thought I was right with 33/35 years!

[John Rumm]

Never had that sort of kit to play with when I was five.... ;-)

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Bill saying something like:

you didn't stand and look closely at it too long, else it would have been up your nose quicker than you could say 'I'b god a code'. Once installed in the nasal passages they are a right bugger to shift, but very useful in trapping small flies that might otherwise cause irritating coughs.