@snoopydawg

We used to call them 'sun bows', but Ive never seen such a full and intense one.

Iridescent clouds, known as "fire rainbows" or "rainbow clouds," occur when sunlight diffracts off water droplets in the atmosphere. ... And sometimes moisture in that air suddenly condenses into tiny droplets to form a cap cloud." pic.twitter.com/Zks6nYXVym

— DAPPER DON DHARSHI • K A M I L • (@SoloFlow786) August 26, 2022

I’d wonder if my drugs became more powerful.

@dystopian

If you turn the Black Widow photo 1/4 counter-clockwise, you can almost envision the Devil ; ).

As a builder friend today carried one of the two french doors up the stairs, with me following from behind, I noticed a black spider just by his thumb. When I mentioned it he said. “Oh, I’m not afraid of spiders” and hardly glanced at it. When he set the door down he picked up the spider and set it gently on the railing outside. We have only one moderately dangerous spider here, the white tail, who is black and has a small (sometimes barely noticeable) white spot on its back end.

It wasn’t that one, which I was glad for. Anyway, now my door closes again, and I’m happy since it’s been really, really rainy.

Snakes, spiders, and sharks, the three S's 'everybody' is afraid of. To overcome your fears, study them. I grew up handling snakes and reading everything about sharks and had no fear of either. I was a bit spider scared though. It was simple stupidity. Of course we are uneasy with what we don't know. From the moments I decided to embrace learning about spiders, my fears are vacuously absent.

arachnids -

Black Widow - male

Bold Jumping Spider

Spinyback Spider

another Spinyback view

Tarantula - DOR - dead on road

unknown species - in nature, shoot first, get ID later

Crab Spider

web of orb weaver

apologies for these likely having been posted here before...

Have great ones all!

@orlbucfan Hey OBF! In the recluse club eh? Congrats! I got love-tapped by a Brown Recluse once. They can give a warning bite, like a rattler's 'dry bite', whence full envenomation does not occur. I saw mine very closely and so the ID was positive. Most reported recluse bites are not. There were some people that lived in Kansas they pulled 5000 out of the house, no one ever got bit. Most bites are rollovers during sleeping. We had a place here with a good population (very rare where we are now, but lots of widows here) of them and never got bit. I would feed one the stray ants that came in the house, like a pet. My understanding is that the widow bite is one of the most painful things you will ever experience, the recluse bite generally is not considered excruciating. A Wolf Spider can send you to the moon. What is amazing is that you could put your hand in front of any spider and it will walk onto it. It has no reason to think your hand is food, or to fear. Just substrate to walk on.

images than what you all usually post on here. That also includes the spiders which still creep me out a bit. We've got a least 2 well known venomous spiders in FL: Black Widows and Brown Recluses. I was bit by (thankfully) an immature member of the latter. It took that sore quite sometime to heal. They are the nastier of the two species. Hope you all are well.
Rec'd!!