Goldenrod is one of my favorite wildflowers. Late summer brings fields of yellow filled with predators. Among the flowers hides small sizes with big surprises and it doesn’t take long to find one. Finding a successful hunter just takes a little more time.

It must have come as a big surprise when the spider introduced itself to the bee.

Turkey Surprise
Stalking turkeys is tough. There are far too many eyes in a flock to sneak up on them. The flock knew I was around. We had spotted each other at a long distance and they immediately started to move off.

Movement catches the eye. I would never have known the frog was there if it hadn’t moved.
Too late to hide from my camera now.

Nothing unexpected about finding mature puffballs on a log.

What happens when you poke a dried puffball filled with spores? I got lucky and got a semi-focused photo of the spores ejected. They disperse rapidly and trying to keep the camera steady in one hand while poking with the other is tough. It took a number of tries and by the time I was done there must have been millions of spores floating around.

I know there’s something else but can’t seem to put my finger on it.

Oh yea, this will be the second time I posted my spore finger.

• Desktop Wallpaper , Insects , Spiders
• Comments(6)

6 Responses

1. Becky Says:
   September 18th, 2011 at 2:59 pm

   I’ll say that looks like a sore finger. Even if it were a squash it doesn’t look that healthy. Perhaps you should have someone take a really good look a tit. I love your pretty pink and yellow spider . The frog is very beautiful too. Good thing you didn’t kiss that!

   My finger isn’t sore at all, just a bit swollen and discolored after squashing it.

   Yea, one prince (royal pain in the butt) in the house is more than enough for my wife to handle.

2. Becky Says:
   September 18th, 2011 at 3:02 pm

   That was supposed to say AT IT. I need to have my typing fingers checked!

   guess it’s easy to make typos using lady fingers to type. Try licking the frosting off first.

3. Benjamin Vogt Says:
   September 18th, 2011 at 4:08 pm

   Those spiders get anything, they’re almost as good as a preying mantis, which we’ve had 500 of this summer. I’d like to see the spiders nab some turkeys.

   Not sure what you’re doing to attract so many preying mantis. I’d like to see just one.

   I’d rather the coyotes nab the turkeys. Spiders that big only belong in the X Files and definitely not on my shoulder.

4. rainfield Says:
   September 19th, 2011 at 12:14 am

   I wonder who took the initiative to kiss first: the spider or the bee?

   They are so “romantic”.

   Ah, so that’s romance. I thought getting my head bitten off was something else.

5. Marguerite Says:
   September 19th, 2011 at 10:29 am

   Great shot of the misty spores. I looked before I read and thought, that looks like one of those ‘ghost’ pictures.

   The only ghost around here is me – when the wife mentions chores

6. Elephant's Eye Says:
   September 26th, 2011 at 3:02 pm

   Never got the camera close enough to a crab spider to see pink stripes on a yellow one. Ours are pink. Or yellow. I think?

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