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5/5/2019
Today's Topic: Updates...
Is she trimming hedges?
Nope..
and she's not using a trash bucket or a ladder either, just climbed up the tree!
Is that you Dad?! Remember in yesterday's blog I said I would try to get a picture of the other suspected Huntsman spider lurking in my house? The smaller one I thought might be a male? Well, guess who showed up this morning, as if on cue, while I was quaffing down a cup of strong Vietnamese cà phê (coffee)?
THIS MORNING NOT THIS MORNING
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Time for a "Bill Nye the Science Guy" interactive arthropod>arachnid science activity. Let's measure spiders. Take a blank piece of paper and place it on the picture of the spider in the right picture so that you can carefully (so as not to damage your computer screen) mark, with a pencil, the distance between the left "toe" (claw) of the second set legs from the front and the "toe" (claw) of the corresponding leg on the right side of the spider - you should be measuring the widest set of legs (or if you want a Hobbit reference the "legs-es"). Once you have marked the distance between the two toes, move the paper down to the pencil and place is so that the toe-mark on the right of the paper aligns with the end of the eraser. If you are doing it correctly and you have measured the correct set of legs, you will see that the other mark reaches the end of the metal clip on the pencil. My ruler measures the distance from the end of the eraser to the end of the metal clip to be 2 3/8" (6 cm). Now repeat the process for the spider in the left picture. You will find that the leg-span of this spider is one half the distance. Now if my theory holds up, and I have absolutely no reason to assume it would, other than having watched many t.v. documentaries on arachnids that say the female spider is always bigger than the male, then we have a romance in the making here.
A little food for thought...if these are Huntsman spiders, then they eat cockroaches and other insects (see what I did there? food for thought - eat cockroaches), and these guys are hanging around the inside of my house, this must mean...
the happy couple... Dad (bồ) Mom (mẹ)
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