Hobo Jungle

[webenda]

How would you like to eat a spider web? This poor spider eats the web every morning and goes to hide somewhere all day long. Then at night builds a new spider web recycling the same silk used the night before.

[webenda]

I just went out to photograph the top side of spider and found it had already caught something and wrapped it in silk.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

........it had already caught something and wrapped it in silk.

David Hedison, perhaps?

[webenda]

Al David Hedison? The actor who turned into a fly in the 1958 version of "The Fly"?
This spider does kinda look like him.

[rogruth]

........it had already caught something and wrapped it in silk.

David Hedison, perhaps?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Al David Hedison? The actor who turned into a fly in the 1958 version of "The Fly"?

Help me! Help me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niyjAJrXEAo

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Somehow, very very strangely, that scene is weirdly corny and viscerally horrifying at the same time - actually upsetting now that I see it again after all these years. Maybe I have too much empathy.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

The red is sort of less pronounced, duller, washed out in this area.

The red of a male House Finch comes from pigments contained in its food during molt (birds can’t make bright red or yellow colors directly). So the more pigment in the food, the redder the male. This is why people sometimes see orange or yellowish male House Finches. Females prefer to mate with the reddest male they can find, perhaps they think red is a "hot" color.

And I believe that is true of Pink Flamingos, which are pink from the brine shrimp they eat.

[robert.]

Ever eat a Purdue chicken? They feed them marigold seed. It helps turn the skin into that nice yellow hue.

[E7]

Ever eat a Purdue chicken? They feed them marigold seed. It helps turn the skin into that nice yellow hue.

You mean it ain't compliments of Floquil???

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Ever eat a Purdue chicken? They feed them marigold seed. It helps turn the skin into that nice yellow hue.

And I wonder who decided that was a good thing. Chickens are usually white; their eggs are usually white (spare me a treatise on the earthy advantages of the brown ones... I wanna stay ignorant in that regard. Yup. Maybe. Sorta. ... And for that matter, my other anathemas : scallops; fried locusts; fried green tomatoes; green eggs and ham; squid; calamari ; pork bung; sheep testicles; clams; oysters; mussels; tripe; sausage; mushrooms; brussel sprouts; cauliflower; chitlins; ricotta ).

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Ever eat a Purdue chicken? They feed them marigold seed. It helps turn the skin into that nice yellow hue.

I thought that they stopped doing that years ago? That there was some protest about it and so on. Anyway, beats feeding them other stuff that you would not like in your food!

And I wonder who decided that was a good thing. Chickens are usually white; their eggs are usually white (spare me a treatise on the earthy advantages of the brown ones... I wanna stay ignorant in that regard. Yup. Maybe. Sorta. ... And for that matter, my other anathemas : scallops; fried locusts; fried green tomatoes; green eggs and ham; squid; calamari ; pork bung; sheep testicles; clams; oysters; mussels; tripe; sausage; mushrooms; brussel sprouts; cauliflower; chitlins; ricotta ).

That's an odd and eclectic list,

[webenda]

Ever eat a Purdue chicken? They feed them marigold seed. It helps turn the skin into that nice yellow hue.

I thought that they stopped doing that years ago?

Perdue's golden chickens still eat marigolds.
https://youtu.be/4ClLIYaH2K8
https://www.perdue.com/perdue-way/veggie-fed/
https://youtu.be/jIFiUM2Eomc

[webenda]

And I wonder who decided that was a good thing. Chickens are usually white; their eggs are usually white (spare me a treatise on the earthy advantages of the brown ones... I wanna stay ignorant in that regard. Yup. Maybe. Sorta. ... And for that matter, my other anathemas : scallops; fried locusts; fried green tomatoes; green eggs and ham; squid; calamari ; pork bung; sheep testicles; clams; oysters; mussels; tripe; sausage; mushrooms; brussel sprouts; cauliflower; chitlins; ricotta ).

Somehow, when I read your list Murph, I thought of Psalm 91.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

... my other anathemas : scallops; fried locusts; fried green tomatoes; green eggs and ham; squid; calamari ; pork bung; sheep testicles; clams; oysters; mussels; tripe; sausage; mushrooms; brussel sprouts; cauliflower; chitlins; ricotta ).

Somehow, when I read your list Murph, I thought of Psalm 91.

Sincerely - most sincerely - elegant of you to say that, Wayne, even with my allowing myself to be a bit silly with posting that. If you will permit the liberty, I'm going to take most seriously , on this occasion, these words: 91:16 : "With long life I will satisfy him..."
Thanks.
Murph