EEEEEEK!

My ears are always so stopped up that they are likely already supporting sea life, or life of some other kind. I don't like to think about it too much.

Bellevue was not that wet today. Well not at least in the office I was working in. I did get to use my wipers for the second time since I bought my car last spring. It actually washed off the bugs that have been restricting my view for the last year. Maybe I should get a window cleaner. LOL

Or perhaps you could get some car bats that you could train to fly in front of the windshield and eat any bugs that might want to throw themselves at your car.

What a vision!

Great idea herpst! Kind of like a Ramora fish that follows sharks around and eats their droppings. I might be BatMan! Oh boy!

For some reason I fear being in the same room with you two. :-)

P.S. -- "you two" meaning Herpst & Soferdig, not you Pixy! lol

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Well, I don't know. Herpst can get me going, so I'd sit by the door if I were you.
But I thought the remora kept the shark free of parasites. The droppings thing is a new one on me.

droppings schmoppings: we thought we were safe underwater but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Look who I found sitting in the bottom of 8 inches of water in a floral bucket. Who in heck is it? Magnification from the water may account for some of the apparent size, but I'm going to classify this 8 legged submariner as a two incher. Geez, what if I wouldn't have seen it and just dumped out the water and taken the bucket inside? Instead I watched and waited for the darn thing to breach! LOL Maybe it's a whale spider?

Sofer, you're the smartest man you know and like these guys so much, so what do you know about how long they can live underwater? And do not, DO NOT, ask me to poke it and see if it's alive. I like the markings and wish I could have got a better macro of them, but underwater wasn't easy.

Oh Poochella, Don't poke the cute little dear, just tickle it's tummy ever so lovingly. Maybe it'll be so happy for the attention that it'll climb your finger, scamper up your arm and winter in your ear. It's nice to have little pet friends that you can carry around with you! Think of it as an easy - care sugar glider.

You come up and tickle its tummy Herpst! Don't you think if it were dead, it would be curled up? I am studying up on the web, how ironic, to see if I can ID this underwater marvel or have someone ID it for me.

It's easy care alright, I'm going to ignore it until I can't stand it anymore and have to empty the bucket.

Meanwhile, there's this little demo
http://science.howstuffworks.com/spider5.htm

With Fall only hours away, the spiders will be doing their fascinating webbery in the woods and brush around here. Nothing quite as ornate and beautiful as a misty web catching some waning sunlight.

You tell him Poochella! If he wants happy, laughing spiders he can tickle them himself!

I'm 100% behind you there Weazelle. I've put out the call on the insect forum, hoping some arachnophiliac can tell me something about this specimen.

Oh! That's a pretty one!Even has markings on the legs.

'Easy Care sugar glider' ROFLOL!!

I'm too tired to come up with anything funny. Night night to all. Sweet dreams!

OK poochella you are smoking too much of the chinamans pipe. That spider is not underwater it is at the bottom of an empty bucket.. See the leaves in the corners of the small areas at the perimeter of the bucket. I have no knowledge of any under water arachnids. I have seen them with an air bubble to stay down a long time. The best thing to do is drink a lot of coffee and have the poppy slowly move out of your brain. LOL

There is too water in there! I can see reflections from what's above the bucket.

aHHHHhhhhhhhh, do we both find days at a time we cannot account for? The chinamans pipe can cause such time warps. LOL OK explain the leaf particles at the bottom by the spider. Well MZ W you don't have to until tomorrow. HeeHee

Hey, even leafs (leaves?) get waterlogged and sink!

You can see the scuba device on the spider. The air bubble at the back end. A common way to relax after a good meal.

Here, you doubting Thomas/Soferdig! Reflection of the flash below. I don't even know what a Chinaman's pipe is, but if present, I'd probably try it. Those underwater fishing spiders are in a league of their own collecting airbubbles like a little oxygen tank ported around on their fur while they chase fish EEEEEEEK. I read more about and saw more terrifying photos of spiders last night than ever before.

I have had the following conclusions reached on two websites:
Spider is upside down, we see it's belly.
Spider is dead.

Both were confirmed by me carefully prodding it back to the surface with a flower stem this a.m. It wasn't nearly as pretty thereafter. Just your usual large brown dead spider. So my short lived mystery is over as quickly as it began, but I know there are more out there and probably in the house..........

Well for pete's sake Poochella, if you find any more (especially around 2am) call Herpst and insist that he come over and cheer it up for you. I'm sure all the local spiders will be grieving their loss. :-)

Boooooo hoooooo hooooooo. I can't take sad endings like this. that air bubble must be post mortem fart. LOL
You can't say that he didn't go out with a bang, toot, burp etc.

Steve, I'm just sitting here shaking my head. But, I'm smiling.

All deaths result in passing of gas. I knew when I first saw it it was dead. If the air bubble was in the front another scuba arachnid is hiding from the world of cell phones.

Well, I didn't get close enough to actually see the spider this morning, but I do admire her work.

Nice web KatyMac.

I wish all spider webs were as easy to see as that one. In fact, I think it should be a rule of nature that all spider webs glow in the dark and flash neon in the daylight. I'm constantly running into them and performing the previously described "are there spiders in my hair?" dance. My head hurts from all the slapping.