Fiddleback Gaucho Wandering, A Resource & Risk Assessment Story

Excellent post Mistwalker!!! :thumbup: I love all your outdoors pictures! :cool: :D

mistwalker said:
Yet yellow sac spiders, on the other hand, pack a mean punch for their weight. This is an older pic from the summer, but you can see how small it is compared to the onion seeds beside it. Their venom can be very painful and it can cause abscesses larger than an inch in diameter.

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No offense intended, but I do not believe that this is a yellow sac spider. At least not the kind we have around here that I'm familiar with (Cheiracanthium inclusum and Cheiracanthium mildei), and that are also common throughout most of the country.

(Hah! One just ran across the living room floor as I was typing this. It's back outside now.)

With the white spots on the spider in your picture, that looks more like some kind of garden spider, though I am not sure without knowing what part of the country you're in.
 
That looks like a beautiful walk and great pictures, as always. I don't think I have ever seen a bee fly before. Very cool.
 
I learned to identify two new plants in this thread. I also didn't know about the yellow sack spider. Nifty. Most impressed with the pic of the moon. I have no idea how to make that work.
 
SpyderPhreak said:
Excellent post Mistwalker!!! :thumbup: I love all your outdoors pictures! :cool: :D

No offense intended, but I do not believe that this is a yellow sac spider. At least not the kind we have around here that I'm familiar with (Cheiracanthium inclusum and Cheiracanthium mildei), and that are also common throughout most of the country.

(Hah! One just ran across the living room floor as I was typing this. It's back outside now.)

With the white spots on the spider in your picture, that looks more like some kind of garden spider, though I am not sure without knowing what part of the country you're in.
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I can't find the passages I read a while back, but I read that the more yellow ones can start out with greener abdomens with white spots, almost like a cucumber spider. I couldn't get the right angle on these guys, they were smaller than a BB and kept moving... but all the dead bees and sacs in the leaves were as much an indicator than anything, and though hard to tell at this size, the tarsi point neither out nor in. When it comes down to it, there are so damned many spiders, and their size and color ranges from region to region, and what have you that it really is hard to be sure. But whatever they look like in ones area, they are still not a good one to make feel threatened :)

Wilsonhome said:
That looks like a beautiful walk and great pictures, as always. I don't think I have ever seen a bee fly before. Very cool.
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Thanks man, glad you enjoyed it. Yeah, we have lots of different bee flies here. Even some of the grabber flies are disguised to look like bubble bees.

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Bmurray said:
Another A+ Brian. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks Bob, glad you enjoyed the post :)


Fiddleback said:
I learned to identify two new plants in this thread. I also didn't know about the yellow sack spider. Nifty. Most impressed with the pic of the moon. I have no idea how to make that work.
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Cool, more knowledge is always a good thing :) Yeah, the moon was shot on a Gorilla pod, not the stablest of shooting platforms, and shot at maximum zoom on a 300mm lens, and then cropped to maximum crop to make it that large. I need, at minimum, a 400mm lens and a teleconverter to get the shots I want :)


hasco said:
Awesome post as always Brian!!!
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Thank you Todd, glad you enjoyed it!!
 
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