Multi-coloured grasshopper-like bugs found in Japan

[DreamTime]

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I really wish all the mosquitoes would all just shrivel up and die. Anubis and I are tired of being eaten alive by those vampires.

[Polly]

You need bats for the mosquitoes, Dream Time.  I can say that I have never been able to think very highly of female mosquitoes and will kill any that come near me.  I used to have terrible allergic reactions to the bites when I was younger.  Large, hard, incessantly itchy welts would form under my skin at the bite site and would last for many days.

[DreamTime]

Well, if you want to send some bats my way, I'll take them. We don't have any around here.

[Sily]

[user=18]William[/user] wrote: 

...I tripped and fell in an ant bed and started to roll around...

That part right there.... my fav part of your story.  Made me laugh.  icon_lachtot

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I am home, I am on my own 'puter, and I can't find that dern bookmark.  I've been through my whole history for the last week and I bookmarked everything else in the world, but that lady's site.  Ahhhhh well.  :(  They were some great pics.

[DreamTime]

Ya know William, that part about falling into an ant hill is not as far-fetched as it may sound. I remember when my sister and I were little and playing outside, she did sit in a red ant hill. Boy did she cry and did I laugh. icon_3rofl

[William]

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[Sily]

Polly,
Got to show you this pic I took last night.  It's a spider that had spun a web right to the left of my front door.  I'll just post the link because I believe some people don't like these types of pics.  :eek:  Anyone that clicks does so at their own risk... hehe.

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[Polly]

Sily, I was thinking about you last night because I promised that pic and have failed to deliver so far.  I have been side-tracked too many times this week.  Do you know what kind of spider it is?  Great shot btw.  :-)

[Polly]

Here, Sily.  I may never get around to posting the picture but this is a nice web page.  We have a few of these in the yard.  One is in my mound of zinnias and the other is in the raspberry canes.  They are quite striking.

http://home.att.net/~larvalbugrex/argiope.html

[Sily]

Do you know what kind of spider it is?

I don't know what kind of spider, but I believe if it bit me, I woulld cry.  :crybaby: 

It was about an inch long, kind of reddish/orange and it has black bands around the legs.  I'm going to try and get a better shot tonight and then post the pic to maybe a live journal group for identification.  I just checked and the web is still outside my door.  Also, I think it's so smart to put the web by the porch light because it was attracting all the bugs last night.  The dern wind was blowing the web back and forth last night making it very hard to focus, but the spider pretty much just sat still for me to take a pic.  I told it "Smile, I'm gonna make you a star on the Internets".  It was happy to sit there rubbing it's legs together waiting for a bug to fly in but as soon as a bug got stuck... all bets were off on picture-posing.. and Mr./Mrs. Spider scurried over to the bug and started eating. 

If I can get an ID on the spider I'll let you know.  I'll just be sure not to post to an arachnaphobia group.  :evil:

Oh.... please don't worry about not posting the pic.  I think in the dogs thread I said I'd post pics of my dogs and that was probably 6 months ago.  I still haven't gotten around to it.