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My first false widow! Found at work and brought home for a quick shoot before setting it free.
It was much bigger than I expected, being almost the size of a regular house spider, which I assumed it was at first until I saw that it was not hairy enough and its legs not long enough. It was very timid, and like most spiders, tried to run and hide rather than be aggressive. Once I got close I could see its eye arrangement was quite unusual in that the eyes are larged more pronounced than most web-building spiders whose eyes are generally useless and tend to be not much more than pin-pricks.
There have been a lot of stories in the UK press about false widows recently, most of it not true or grossly exaggerated. I tend to swicth off as soon as I see the word 'poisonous' as most journalists seem unwilling or unable to find out the difference between poisonous and venomous. Yes, false widows are venomous, as are all spiders. They are also one of the few species in the UK with fangs capable of piercing human skin. As with most spiders, they are timid and prefer to escape rather than attack, but may bite when cornered. The symptoms are fairly mild and do not generally require medical attention although probably more unpleasant than any other spider purely because we have no significantly venomous spiders here. It's not an invasive species, having been present in this country for at least 100 years, so the stories of swarms of invading spiders (tabloids like to use the hysterical immigrant angle) are not true. They are also not closely related to black widows. They are both members of the family of comb-footed spiders, along with around 2000 other species. Those species known as false widows belong to the genus Steatoda. Black widows and related similar species belong to the genus Lactrodatus. The name only comes from their passing physical resemblence and give that one is brown while the other is black (usually with distinctive bright red markings), the connection is tenuous to say the least. So for most of the press stories to call them 'cousins' of black widows and run stories including pictures of black widows is misleading at best and irresponsible at worst. The word 'deadly' is also often used when there are no recorded deaths from Steatoda bites, and most of the stories I have read (as well as most stories regarding other spider bites) the victim of the bite did not see, let alone capture, the creature that bit them. I have noticed for some time that people often wake up with bites and assume a spider bit them in the night when it was far more likely to have been a flea, bed bug, mosquito or some other creature which survives by drinking blood. And yet spiders are usually assumed to be to blame. I noticed that most of these 'false widow bite' stories are a result of bites that are assumed to be from them even though the creature itself is never seen.
L. GERTEIS & J. W. DEMPSEY long range target rifle, with false-muzzle and guide bullet starter, and adjustable "globe sights".
Louis Gerteis and John W. Dempsey were both gunsmith/gunmakers in New Orleans, Louisiana, from as early as 1855. Dempsey disappears from city directories after 1872. Gerteis was still listed in the 1979 directory, as well as the 1880 census. They are only listed in partnership in the city directory for 1860. Given the time period, I have to believe that there is an excellent possibility that this rifle might have served as a sharpshooter's (sniper's) rifle by a Confederate sharpshooter.
Louis Gerteis was born in Bavaria in about 1831, as was his wife, Mary. His son Louis, born in Louisiana in 1859, also became a gunsmith, and is listed as such in the 1880 census.
John W. Dempsey was born in New York, in about 1830. He appears to have been a single man.
Hozaki-Nana-Kamado, 穂咲七竃, False spiraea, Sorbaria sorbifolia var. stellipila
The buds are small pretty white balls. Hozaki means long flower ear, Nana-Kamado is the name for rowans or mountain ash. Nana-kamado literally means seven-farnace (range of firewood), because this wood is hard to burn, so they say it takes seven trials to burn it. (I don't know if it is true or not (^o^))
Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, June2007
NikonD70s/MicroNikkor60mm
False Morel (Gyromitra esculenta) a/k/a Brain Mushroom. Crane Flat area. Yosemite National Park. Mariposa Co., Calif.
An update of the chipping sparrow nest.......the little blue eggs have become little sparrows waiting for dinner.
Berries from a False Solomon's seal plant. The leaves were drying out with summer but the berries were still whole.
Stereum Ostrea, or false turkey tail mushroom, is pictured here growing off a dead Quercus rubra (red oak) stump. This organism is a decomposer, growing in dense clumps and feeding exclusively on rotting wood, and it provides the valuable service of recycling nutrients back into the ecosystem, where they can be taken up by primary producers. This mushroom is commonly confused with the true turkey tail mushroom (Trametes versicolor) due to their similar shapes. The easiest way to distinguish them is by their undersides. True turkey tail contains fine pores that are visible to the eye, while the false mushroom has a smooth surface (which I confirmed after pulling off a few from the stump).
A talk about false memories by an artist (With Collective) and a psychologist (Dr Christopher French) working on a Wellcome Trust funded project to create a False Memory Archive.
False Chanterelle (Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca).
Photographed in the pine plantation at Holk Meals, Norfolk.
Vancouver, BC Canada
False Creek is a short inlet in the heart of Vancouver. It separates downtown from the rest of the city. It was named by George Henry Richards during his Hydrographic survey of 1856-63. Science World is located at its eastern end, with the Granville, Cambie, and the Burrard Street bridges crossing False Creek.
The Canada Line tunnel crosses underneath False Creek just west of the Cambie Bridge. It is one of the four major bodies of water bordering Vancouver along with English Bay, Burrard Inlet and the Fraser River. In 1986 it was the location of the Expo 86 World's Fair.
(Wikipedia)
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82. DE VALSE BOUDEWIJN
1225 - Several years after the death of Baldwin of Constantinople an adventurer who said he was Baldwin IX appeared in Flanders. He found supporters and caused riots. His deception was discovered and he was sentenced to death.
So, once you open up the waist, it means you need to have some kind of a false gun deck. I chose to use a chunk of wood from a cigar box, and just used a No. 11 blade to score planking in.
In retrospect, I could have made the planks a little skinnier, but I was truly learning on the fly here, so I'm OK with how it turned out. Also, after this photo was taken, I tweaked the paint job a bit to make it more "wash-y" and in alignment with the spar deck.
For the hatches/gratings, I used the cedar veneer inside the cigar box, and printed out an image of a grating (that I color corrected till it looked right) on a clear plastic label.
St James's church at Great Packington, one of the most unique classical churches in Britain, was built in 1789-90 to the design of Joseph Bonomi.
The red brick exterior appears as a square, somewhat domestic-looking block, crowned by four stone corner towers. The semi-circular lunette windows are directly inspired by the architecture of ancient Rome (the architect's native city).
The interior is a remarkable contrast, finished through with plaster, painted to resemble masonry, and in the form of an equal-ended Greek Cross (the spaces beneath the towers seperated by heavy arches and Doric columns).
Today the church stands alone on the Great Packington Estate, and can be entered by arrangememnt with the staff at the nearby hall.