tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10199452.post115125884267258087..comments2024-01-18T03:20:53.170-05:00Comments on Thomasburg Walks: Rugosa DramaPamela Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10167132802880894799noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10199452.post-1151987236818500782006-07-04T00:27:00.000-04:002006-07-04T00:27:00.000-04:00Terrific photos. I love the macro with the male c...Terrific photos. I love the macro with the male clinging to the female's backside.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10199452.post-1151581463363074342006-06-29T07:44:00.000-04:002006-06-29T07:44:00.000-04:00Sad by our lights--but also a rare opportunity to ...Sad by our lights--but also a rare opportunity to get to know an individual invertebrate, even if it is during her last days. The spider with eggs is still firmly in place, and yesterday, Wednesday, I saw her eating another rose chafer. I guess she is just taking ones that either bother her, or fall right into her mouthPamela Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10167132802880894799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10199452.post-1151497885096337392006-06-28T08:31:00.000-04:002006-06-28T08:31:00.000-04:00Pamela - I once photographed a M. vatia with an eg...Pamela - I once photographed a M. vatia with an egg case over a period of about a month. She went from being quite normal looking, to having an abdomen that was very collapsed by the end. She really looked pretty bad by the time she died. As it happened, that coincided with our first very heavy frost. The odd thing about that spider was that there was a grasshopper that used to sit on an Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10199452.post-1151493374893270422006-06-28T07:16:00.000-04:002006-06-28T07:16:00.000-04:00Thanks, Bev. The female with eggs is already kind ...Thanks, Bev. The female with eggs is already kind of shrivelled--when I first saw her I wondered if this was because she'd just recently been full of the eggs now laid--but after finding out that she will sit there not eating, or at least not hunting, thought maybe she's already been there for a while. I'll try to watch for hatch day, or at least developments.Pamela Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10167132802880894799noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10199452.post-1151452418637547972006-06-27T19:53:00.000-04:002006-06-27T19:53:00.000-04:00Wonderful set of photos of spiders, Pamela! Also ...Wonderful set of photos of spiders, Pamela! Also of the Harvestman in the next post as well. Regarding the female Misumena vatia with the egg case, I've watched them guard the case while they gradually become desiccated and eventually die. They don't seem to go hunting, but I really won't be too surprised if one were to kill an insect that happened by. Also, they seem so fierce when guarding Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com