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Night photos
Hi all,
Was almost asleep then realized I'd forgotten to do something so had to get up ... looked out the window and saw it was very pretty and snowing out, so put on my boots and went outside to test out my camera. Strange but neat photo came out Karmen |
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storm
a few days ago we had a storm go through here dumping a lot of hail which made our farm all white, just like snow. We weren't home at the time but Emma was the hail was golf ball size. It devastated peoples gardens scared all the stock, flooded peoples houses and even left holes in the ground were the hail hit and also 20mm of rain with it. The rain has been very patchy and the ones lucky enough to get it are getting a green pick at the moment.
Where our son Michael is in WA they got a total of 240mm over three days with 180mm falling in one day and wind speeds up to 104 kms per hour. Max |
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Manitoba gets a lot of big hail, as far as I remember. And yes, it can sure do hell on crops, livestocks, and gardens
Lately, over here in Canada (and United States-side), the weather has been a lot of extremes. Thinking about the summers heatwaves and now the huge winds and rains that messed up the West Coast a lot, and I'm sure glad I did Calgary before this week, as the highway between BC and Alberta was closed due to snowfall and avalanche worries. Colorado, USA, had a huge avalanche that buried a couple of cars and sent some over the edge. Its on the news today. We are mere mortals trying to master the land, and mother nature is an uncontrollable and unpredictable force that can and does go "pfffffft" to remind us ... adapt, or else Kinda hard to run a farm or plan a garden ... BUT ... did the hail knock off all of those nasty deadly read spiders around there? And how common ARE those particular spiders? Karmen |
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red backs
I'm afraid the red back spider is very common you only have to roll a log or something over to find them, they don't usually bite unless you touch them, but we're not sure if they infact might like canadians.
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Re: red backs
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So ... will a bite from one of those kill me, or what? I do know that fleas and mosquitos really love me Karmen wheres the deet? |
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Re: Re: red backs
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Vets Dottir
[B]Oh you ARE a Max! So ... will a bite from one of those kill me, or what? I do know that fleas and mosquitos really love me A bite from one of those little buggers can be bad news I'm sure you will be safe, you can trust us Max |
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Spiders
WILL YOU PEOPLE STOP TALKING ABOUT SPIDERS!!??
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O.K. Geoff, no more redback talk...
We'll sing about them instead!
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You nasty, NASTY man!
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A snippet
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KEEFY ... loved the Redback tune ... also spotted the lyrics for the Kookaburra song ... I used to LOVE singing that one in grade school!!! I was always in the school choir but our music classes always sang that, along with Waltzing Matidla and others. Fun stuff. Karolling Kartmann |
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... a little Aussie Red Back Spider 101 for those whpo care to learn ...
http://www.amonline.net.au/factSheets/redback.htm |
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In looking at some pictures of your Oz reedback spiders, I've seen similar looking spiders around here!!! I wonder if they're the same spider, or family???
K. |
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Pictures of the redback. You really should have a look Geoff so you can recognize and avoid the little dears
Interesting that they belong to the black widow family! http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/austra...eridiidae.html |
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Redback
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I don't think I can come into this thread anymore...
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And be sure you get some travel med insurance too and rae ready for an antivenum shot |
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How about some BC-ers talking about (mostly) our spiders up here By the way, there's a link for another forum with a video of a camel spider dining on a frog it looks like, check out the conversations in the forum just below the video
http://www.discovervancouver.com/for...OPIC_ID=112700 |
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