Lady Slippers and Strange Spider Webs

SteveA · 06-06-2011, 02:05 PM

The Lady Slippers are back! This year we have 9, last year we had 13. "She Who Must Be Obeyed" took these today.

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Anyone have any idea on these spiders. The entire ground just off the back of our property is covered with these webs. there are hundreds of individual webs. Each web has a tunnel in the center... and a resident spider.

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pam.in.ny · 06-06-2011, 03:34 PM

The photos of the Lady Slippers are beautiful. However, the spiders, I am not a fan of them

and can't help you identify them.

Lakesrider · 06-06-2011, 04:40 PM

Well you were close. I believe they are called funnel web spiders. I get them too. You can really get a great picture of them on a misty day. or a good morning dew day.

BTW...Spiders creep me out and I scream like a little girl when I find one on my bed.

Nice pictures as well. You must have poor soil near you.....very rare to see them from what I have read on them.

Pepper · 06-06-2011, 09:51 PM

The photos of the Lady Slippers are wonderful!

The photos of the Spider webs are great, too, but very creepy!!

ApS · 06-07-2011, 06:17 PM

As to pink lady slippers, we have a half-dozen or more each year. This year, I've noticed some kind of small purple orchid-like flower among them. The soil is of poor quality, but is good enough to grow a few pine trees that two adults can't encircle to touch fingertips.

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Originally Posted by Lakesrider

I believe they are called funnel web spiders. I get them too. You can really get a great picture of them on a misty day. or a good morning dew day.

At our place, those spiderwebs fully cover half of our acre. When morning dew is around, each web lights up brightly.

It's quite the sight—and they're harmless.

But wouldn't you rather have your area a big, green, lawn of grassy species, instead of your property going to natural woodlands?

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"British arachnologists have estimated populations ranging from 11,000 spiders per acre in woodlands to more than 2 1/2 million individuals in a grassland acre."
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Argie's Wife · 06-07-2011, 10:41 PM

I googled the spider webs and came up with Funnel Web Spiders - yeah, not too scientific, but it makes sense.

http://www.google.com/search?client=...w=1413&bih=703

SteveA · 05-20-2012, 06:33 AM

I'm counting 16 new Lady Slippers for 2012. Took these with some wonderful early morning natural light this morning. They are the first two to open completely.

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SIKSUKR · 05-21-2012, 12:17 PM

I've always loved lady slippers but there is something just..ah..well..ah.If you have seen the Marie Romano statue episode on Everybody Loves Raymond you'll know what I mean.

NickNH · 05-21-2012, 03:13 PM

The purple flowers look like Wild Violets.....we have them everywhere...their seed pods fling the seeds everywhere so they can pop up where least expected....

SteveA · 05-22-2012, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by SIKSUKR

I've always loved lady slippers but there is something just..ah..well..ah.If you have seen the Marie Romano statue episode on Everybody Loves Raymond you'll know what I mean.

Humm... I missed that one... but I did just find it on YouTube. Very funny!

ApS · 10-06-2012, 03:18 AM

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Originally Posted by SteveA

Anyone have any idea on these spiders. The entire ground just off the back of our property is covered with these webs. there are hundreds of individual webs. Each web has a tunnel in the center... and a resident spider.

They've turned up on our dock, using a dock line for a "web anchor".

06-06-2011, 09:51 PM	#4
Pepper Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Laconia, NH Posts: 1,284 Thanks: 409 Thanked 155 Times in 40 Posts	Wow! The photos of the Lady Slippers are wonderful! The photos of the Spider webs are great, too, but very creepy!! __________________ Never waste time lamenting what was. Simply celebrate what is!

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SteveA Deceased Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Gilford, NH Posts: 2,311 Thanks: 1,070 Thanked 2,053 Times in 496 Posts	2012 lady Slippers I'm counting 16 new Lady Slippers for 2012. Took these with some wonderful early morning natural light this morning. They are the first two to open completely. __________________ "Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry he'll be a mile away and barefoot!" unknown

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SIKSUKR Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 5,075 Thanks: 215 Thanked 903 Times in 509 Posts	I've always loved lady slippers but there is something just..ah..well..ah.If you have seen the Marie Romano statue episode on Everybody Loves Raymond you'll know what I mean. __________________ SIKSUKR

06-06-2011, 02:05 PM	#1
SteveA Deceased Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Gilford, NH Posts: 2,311 Thanks: 1,070 Thanked 2,053 Times in 496 Posts	Lady Slippers and Strange Spider Webs The Lady Slippers are back! This year we have 9, last year we had 13. "She Who Must Be Obeyed" took these today. Anyone have any idea on these spiders. The entire ground just off the back of our property is covered with these webs. there are hundreds of individual webs. Each web has a tunnel in the center... and a resident spider. __________________ "Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry he'll be a mile away and barefoot!" unknown

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06-06-2011, 03:34 PM	#2
pam.in.ny Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Upstate NY Posts: 92 Thanks: 98 Thanked 14 Times in 12 Posts	The photos of the Lady Slippers are beautiful. However, the spiders, I am not a fan of them and can't help you identify them.

06-06-2011, 04:40 PM	#3
Lakesrider Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 2,129 Thanks: 380 Thanked 1,016 Times in 345 Posts	Well you were close. I believe they are called funnel web spiders. I get them too. You can really get a great picture of them on a misty day. or a good morning dew day. BTW...Spiders creep me out and I scream like a little girl when I find one on my bed. Nice pictures as well. You must have poor soil near you.....very rare to see them from what I have read on them.

06-07-2011, 10:41 PM	#6
Argie's Wife Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Alton Posts: 1,908 Blog Entries: 1 Thanks: 533 Thanked 579 Times in 260 Posts	I googled the spider webs and came up with Funnel Web Spiders - yeah, not too scientific, but it makes sense. http://www.google.com/search?client=...w=1413&bih=703

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NickNH Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 85 Thanks: 103 Thanked 14 Times in 11 Posts	The purple flowers look like Wild Violets.....we have them everywhere...their seed pods fling the seeds everywhere so they can pop up where least expected....

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