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I don't think anything keeps copperheads in check in Missouri ...
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DWest - stunning pictures!
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I've had raccoons raid the cat dish on the porch before, but when I turn on the porch light they usually dive off the porch.
This time it shinnied up the downspout and sat on my roof
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That's a lovely picture VK.
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A couple of the multi-legged critters around the yard. A Flower Longhorn Beetle and a big spider (think its some type of wolf spider but haven't been able to find a positive id). There's 2 or 3 of them around the outside of the house, agreement is they stay out there and I leave them alone.
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That Flower Longhorn Beetle you named looks more like a Pepsis wasp (or tarantula hawk). It hunts down tarantulas and paralizes them then drags the body to a hole and lays an egg on it. When the egg hatches the larva eats the tarantula alive. Good eats.
Speaking of spiders. I have a flag pole in the front yard with light that shines all night. The other day when retrieving the morning paper at around 0515 I noticed a spider web strung a few feet over the light with a nice big spider in the middle. Seems like it knows a good location. The web disappears during the daylight hours. I was out at just after 0530 one morning and noticed the spider eating the web so I watched it to see where it spends the day. Turns out it uses the area below the flagpole cleat as a hideout, hiding between the flagpole and the line wrapping. Funny thing about the web is that it sometimes uses either a tree or some bushes that are around 15 feet away as one of the anchor points. I wonder how it gets that one string of web from the anchor point to the construction area.
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I thought it was at first, but looking it up it seemed to match the Longhorn Beetle the best. Since the few I seen were only around 1 inch long were Tarantula Hawks are really good sized insects. There's so many insects, spiders, centipedes around here and nearly all bite, sting or both, part of living in a desert: live is tough.
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Here is a picture of that spider in its daytime hideout.
It still builds the web every night and takes it down by eating it every morning, although two days ago it had a juicy beetle and did not build the web last night.
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Wayne - nice spider shot!
The other insect is really similar to one we get here. I must look and see if I can find one. Yup - leave all the insects alone. They all have their place. An interesting thing is that some insects react to pheranomes that people put out if they are scared - and that's when people get stung or bitten often. If you are not worried the insect isn't. ----—------— Doug - that's is a very interesting story about the spider. Try for some more pics?
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The spider has either moved on or has moved on.
No web the past few days, can't see it on the flagpole in its hiding place.
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