Wild life pictures!

[MtViking]

We’ve got a big ole cookie spider on the little barn/shed that I hadn’t noticed until tonight while I was out there working on some solar powered lights. I’m not a huge spider fan, but I like these one they eat a TON of pesky bugs every night. We call em cookie spiders around here, but I’ve heard them called cat spiders or cat eye spiders or barn spiders, orb weavers. Lot of names and lots of color variations. She’s huge as far as spiders go in my neck of the woods, her but was about the size of a quarter.

 

[AmberLops]

Wow! I was actually just reading about those the other day!
I believe it's called a Lichen Orb Weaver

 

[MtViking]

Wow! I was actually just reading about those the other day!
I believe it's called a Lichen Orb Weaver

Yeah that name makes sense. I saw two of them in the same area at my in-laws today both totally different colors. One was similar to the one I have the other one was almost all white. They must grow to the colors of there environment or something. The really light colored one was closer to the siding of the house which is a grey color. The other one was further out from the deck and was camo colors. Pretty neat spiders though.

 

[AmberLops]

Yeah that name makes sense. I saw two of them in the same area at my in-laws today both totally different colors. One was similar to the one I have the other one was almost all white. They must grow to the colors of there environment or something. The really light colored one was closer to the siding of the house which is a grey color. The other one was further out from the deck and was camo colors. Pretty neat spiders though.

They're beautiful!

 

[Baymule]

That sure is a different looking spider!

 

[MtViking]

That sure is a different looking spider!

They’re pretty crazy looking I agree. I’m a big dude but spiders still give me the creeps lol. I was pretty nervous taking those pictures hahaha.

 

[promiseacres]

one of our many monarch caterpillars we've raised this summer. Currently have 5 Chrysalis and 2 catties.

 

[Bruce]

Creepy spider @MtViking!

We had a couple of Monarch caterpillars on milkweed plants, never saw a chrysalis. Do they go into that stage on the milkweed or go somewhere else? If the former I guess something ate them

 

[promiseacres]

Creepy spider @MtViking!

We had a couple of Monarch caterpillars on milkweed plants, never saw a chrysalis. Do they go into that stage on the milkweed or go somewhere else? If the former I guess something ate them

The few "wild" chrysalis we found were off of the milkweed. Once on a flower I had in a pot and another on the fence.

 

[Bruce]

Then there is hope for those little guys/girls I saw.