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Brian Ellis

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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1530 on: July 17, 2011, 07:36:26 PM »
No idea, happened to be one in a show we judged yesterday!
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1531 on: July 17, 2011, 07:57:23 PM »
Without a shadow of a doubt, these are spiders. Pay no attention to Brian; he's just spoofing.

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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1532 on: July 17, 2011, 08:10:32 PM »
Quote from: Paddy Tobin on July 17, 2011, 07:57:23 PM
Without a shadow of a doubt, these are spiders. Pay no attention to Brian; he's just spoofing.

Paddy
I knew it! 
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1533 on: July 17, 2011, 09:18:01 PM »
Are they Kentucky beard mites?   ;D

You would never have grown these in Blackley, Alan ... even with dear Sherba's assistance!!!

Greetings from Corvara in the BEAUTIFUL Dolomites!!
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Cliff Booker
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1534 on: July 17, 2011, 10:41:47 PM »
Quote from: ranunculus on July 17, 2011, 09:18:01 PM
You would never have grown these in Blackley, Alan ... even with dear Sherba's assistance!!!

I'm not that sure I can grow them here yet Cliff  ;D
Brian......Gymocalycium calochlorum proliferum.....Well done!

Give our regards to Corvara Cliff...you lucky devil.
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1535 on: July 17, 2011, 10:45:17 PM »
Quote from: Maggi Young on July 17, 2011, 06:18:58 PM
I hope you're right Brian, because if those are critters with legs, I'm outta here!  :P :-X
Quote from: Paddy Tobin on July 17, 2011, 07:57:23 PM
Without a shadow of a doubt, these are spiders. Pay no attention to Brian; he's just spoofing.

Paddy

Maggi and Paddy (now THAT sounds like a good name for a folk group ;D)
Kentucky spiders are MUCH scarier than this. I should know, I've been bitten twice and it hurts like hell  :(
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1536 on: July 18, 2011, 12:14:07 AM »
Gosh, I'd never have got that one!
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1537 on: July 18, 2011, 09:44:57 AM »
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Brian......Gymocalycium calochlorum proliferum.....Well done!

Thankyou but it was a sheer fluke if we hadn't seen one the previous day and I had had to have a good look at it and mentally noted the name, apart from it being a cactus I would have had no clue whatsoever ;D
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Brian Ellis, Brooke, Norfolk UK. altitude 30m Mintemp -8C

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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1538 on: July 18, 2011, 12:32:29 PM »
I was looking for two eyes  :o  but was scared to look to close.
Well done Brian. I would have never got that one.

Anymore puzzles it's pouring of rain here and I am fed up.
Angie :)
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1539 on: July 19, 2011, 10:03:59 AM »
You have to be looking for more eyes than that Angie! 8) Insects have 5 and spiders from 4 to 8! :o
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1540 on: July 19, 2011, 11:43:35 AM »

Quote from: Anthony Darby on July 19, 2011, 10:03:59 AM
You have to be looking for more eyes than that Angie! 8) Insects have 5 and spiders from 4 to 8! :o

Anthony that's amazing, I have never looked at a spider that close up but the thought of all that eyes watching me scares me even more.

Angie :)
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1541 on: July 19, 2011, 12:12:33 PM »
You don't need to count them Angie. Just assume spider = 8 eyes and you will usually be correct. A very few have 6 or 4, but you are unlikely to see these, far less their eyes. Just look at the link to one of my favourite money spiders. http://www.galerie-insecte.org/galerie/walckenaeria_acuminata.html The male has its eyes on a wee periscope! 8)
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1542 on: July 28, 2011, 03:15:46 AM »
I have no answer for this one. Tonight we were out in the potting shed dividing bloodroots and happened to spy this mysterious entity growing on the edge of a large plastic pot.  The white exterior covers a gossamer brown interior which is almost dust-like and can easily be blown away with a gentle breath. The white is also on the underside of this and firmly attached to the pot.  The right side shows where we removed the exterior to peak inside. No insects in the vicinity aside from one small adult spider several centimetres below, showing little interest & just hanging out, one strand of its web was attached to this thing though that may be pure coincidence. Any ideas?

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Where is this?
« Reply #1543 on: August 01, 2011, 11:26:08 PM »
Who know where we went for our holidays? Not sure if the picture shows it too well, but both ends of this reservoir have a dam.
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Diane Clement, Wolverhampton, UK
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Re: Puzzles
« Reply #1544 on: August 01, 2011, 11:36:12 PM »
Quote from: johnw on July 28, 2011, 03:15:46 AM
happened to spy this mysterious entity growing on the edge of a large plastic pot.

Dog vomit slime mold?
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