Fishing Spider
July 28, 2009
WTB,
I promised you these a long time ago. Here are the images of a spider
eating the frog. It’s a little hard to make out but it is probably a green
tree frog and this is on a leaf of a Sagittaria. It occurred in our little
nature area, the Kiawah Swamp Garden. Not sure of the actual type of
spider. Kinda creepy though; don’t usually consider consumption in that
direction among Phyla.
Here are a couple of other links for your enjoyment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PZTILeS4jo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFg2-bkjwPg
KICA Maint
Kiawah Island, SC
February 29, 2008
Thanks for checking on this. We’ve used your site to ID a lot of our
questions already but this one had us stumped. I’ll have to send you an
image we have of a spider, I’m assuming a fishing spider, eating a green
tree frog. It was back pre-digital so we’ll see how the scan comes out.
Thanks again for the great work you do,
Norm Shea
Director, Lakes Management
Six Spotted Fishing Spider eats Tree Frog
Dear KICA Maint,
Thanks for sending these amazing documents of a Six Spotted Fishing Spider eating a Tree Frog. It is a wonderful addition to our recent posting of a Common House Spider feasting on a Skink. We enjoyed watching your videos of Alligators.
Six Spotted Fishing Spider eats Tree Frog
California Slender Salamander
Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 8:59 AM
Hi,
Love your site. Thought I’d send you some photos of the California Slender for your Amphibian section.
These guys were found in Los Gatos, up in the Santa Cruz Mountains.
Cheers!
-NewtHunterDave
Santa Cruz Mtns CA
California Slender Salamander
Dear NewtHunterDave,
Thanks for your lovely image of a California Slender Salamander. Perhaps we didn’t do enough gardening yet this year, but we have yet to see a California Slender Salamander in our yard in 2009. Once, upon turning over a board, we found about six huddled together. Our garden is on Mount Washington in sight of downtown Los Angeles. It is part of an endangered California Black Walnut endangered woodland, and since our lot faces north, it stays somewhat cool and damp, providing a perfect habitat for these delicate creatures.
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found in thousand oaks, ca
Hi!
This is our friend Ned, we found him under a rock in our backyard. At first we thought he was a worm, then noticed his eyes and tried to ID him as a snake… then we went and looked again and noticed he had feet. Could you help us ID him? Thanks!
John & Nicole
Hi Nicole and John,
We knew this was a Salamander, since we find them in our own Mt Washington, Los Angeles garden. We discover individuals in our own garden when we move firewood that has been in contact with the ground for long periods of time. We did a bit more researdh and have discovered on a website that the Slender Salamanders in the genus Batrachoseps are a California specialty, occasionally straying into Oregon and Baja California Mexico. The taxonomy is quite confusing, and there are about 20 species. Your letter and image have inspired us to create an Amphibian page on our site, and we will photograph our own darker Slender Salamanders the next time we encounter one.
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