"dicko" wrote in message
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On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:59:16 GMT, "jthread" wrote:

went out to my gf pond to clean out the frog mating uck and saw this:

http://www.safaricabs.com/spider1.jpg

http://www.safaricabs.com/spider2.jpg

spidey is bigger in person.

i'm awake now


Its a Black & Yellow Argiope, a fairly common spider. Impressive but
harmless. As kids we used to catch bugs and throw them into the web to
watch the spider do its thing.

-dickm

this one is very impressive. he's about 8" streached out. right now he's
sucking the life out of a grasshopper or something. freakin cool lokin
spidey