Norman Darlo
Here’s a photo for the Macro Monday challenge, which I took a week ago. There’s a little white spider in the allium flower, and when I first looked I thought it was just a white petal from another plant, so I tried to brush it away before taking the shot. Then I realised what it was!
I used to suffer from arachnophobia, which I think my mother passed on to me. I’ve become less stressed with spiders over the years, but I still really can’t cope with big ones. Luckily this was just a little fella! Hope you enjoy the photo from my garden 🙂
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Are you scared of spiders at all?
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Yes I find spiders really scary
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No I don’t find spiders scary at all
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It depends on the size!
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It took me some time to see the flower. The flowers are beautiful with this color.
I agree, Giri. I love this intense purple colour in a flower 🙂
Wow, that’s an amazing picture! I am scared of all types of bugs, even ladybugs if there are more than 3-4 of them. 😅
Really? Spiders are the only thing that I am irrationally afraid of. I am afraid of wasps and snakes and bears, but I do not think you can call those phobias!
I can try rationalize everything. As a germaphobe, I imagine bugs could carry some diseases even if they are not poisonous/venomous themselves.
And for sure they do. I know I had to be very careful to wash my hands carefully after touching my giant snails.
I don’t find it scary, but I definitely don’t like it.
Well I find them scary, for no reason at all, because we have no dangerous spiders here. And I know they do good by reducing the number of flies.
Great shot pal!
Spiders, snakes, and other creatures do not normally bother me. I grew up with a biologist so the world was a learning opportunity (most of which I’ve forgotten who cares what the Latin name for a decorative beetle is anyway 🙂 ?)
Plus we were outdoors for many hours at a time. My dad taught me about what snakes did and what they ultimately meant to the environment.
He loved spiders, so I continue that!
Thanks, Doc. Yeah, you were lucky being raised by a biologist – I had to learn it in school, which is just not the same.
Ah, don’t take this the wrong way, but not always!
My passion was always technology. My dad didn’t get that until I was 30 years old. Until then he pushed education and we often were at odds.
Sometimes 8-year-olds don’t care about the Latin names of plants.
I like spiders only in pictures! 😀
I don’t even like them in pictures!
I am scared of spiders big and small.
Allium – are those onion plants you have there?
They are the same genus as onions, Grace, but a different species. Edible in principle, but grown for their appearance.
Will there be bulbs growing too?
Oh yes. All alliums have some bulb, though some not as pronounced as our familiar onion.
I am afraid of black widows and the brown recluse.
We have no dangerous spiders here, so there is no reason for me to fear them at all!
You are lucky, these are two deadly spiders. Love the purple color here.
It’s true, we are blessed in that way: no snakes, no poisonous insects, no dangerous mammals, no gators… The worst thing we have is wasps and nettles 🙂
I need to move there. 🙂