On the garden fence tonight - Zygiella x-notata:
Paul.
Paul.
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I've never seen one before - which considering how large it was (maybe 2mm) you'd think they would be easy to find - but not for me. This one was on my recycling bin tonight...
Pseudoscorpions, also known as false scorpions or book scorpions, are small, scorpion-like arachnids belonging to the order Pseudoscorpiones, also known as Pseudoscorpionida or Chelonethida.
Paul.
Pseudoscorpions, also known as false scorpions or book scorpions, are small, scorpion-like arachnids belonging to the order Pseudoscorpiones, also known as Pseudoscorpionida or Chelonethida.
Paul.
I've never seen one before - which considering how large it was (maybe 2mm) you'd think they would be easy to find - but not for me. This one was on my recycling bin tonight...
Pseudoscorpions, also known as false scorpions or book scorpions, are small, scorpion-like arachnids belonging to the order Pseudoscorpiones, also known as Pseudoscorpionida or Chelonethida.
Paul.
Nice photos!!
Years ago I learned a weird fact that I've always remembered: all "real" scorpions fluoresce under UV light. But pseudo-scorpions do not. In some habitats, pseudo-scorpions look so much like real scorpions that the only way to tell them apart is with a UV light:
Ultraviolet Scorpions | Ask A Biologist
Finding Scorpions at Night All scorpions will fluoresce under a ultraviolet (UV) light, also known as a "blacklight". The glow is caused by an unidentified substance in a thin layer in their skin. Newly molted scorpions do not fluoresce right away, but they they will glow after they have aged a...
@verreauxi I had read that once (different website, but same sort of dialog. It's fascinating is nature, that's for sure.
Paul.
Paul.
Buried... Preston's Real Life Witch...
Meg Shelton (died 1705) known as the "Fylde Hag" was an English woman accused of witchcraft. Her grave can be seen at St. Anne's Church in Woodplumpton, now part of the City of Preston district of Lancashire. Meg Shelton's real name is recorded by St Anne's Church as Margery Hilton.
The Woodplumpton 'witch' is reputedly buried upside down with a boulder on her grave...
Accused of using witchcraft to destroy crops, steal milk and transform herself into animals, Meg Shelton was subject of many fantastical tales and stories. Most traditions have her body being found crushed against her cottage wall by a barrel. According to some versions of the story, the unusual death was seen by villagers as a sign that the Devil had come to claim her.
Meg Shelton was buried in St Anne's churchyard, but her body refused to stay underground. The following morning, her corpse was found lying beside her grave. She was reburied, and once more her corpse reappeared. Finally, the priest performed an exorcism and Shelton was buried for the third time, but this time she was interred in a narrow vertical hole, like an oversized post hole, and she was inserted upside down, so that if she tried to dig her way to the surface she'd be going the wrong way. Finally, a boulder was placed over the top of her unusually-shaped grave.
You'll see her tomb three or four times in my flight... Can you spot it??? Dare you look?
Paul.
Meg Shelton (died 1705) known as the "Fylde Hag" was an English woman accused of witchcraft. Her grave can be seen at St. Anne's Church in Woodplumpton, now part of the City of Preston district of Lancashire. Meg Shelton's real name is recorded by St Anne's Church as Margery Hilton.
The Woodplumpton 'witch' is reputedly buried upside down with a boulder on her grave...
Accused of using witchcraft to destroy crops, steal milk and transform herself into animals, Meg Shelton was subject of many fantastical tales and stories. Most traditions have her body being found crushed against her cottage wall by a barrel. According to some versions of the story, the unusual death was seen by villagers as a sign that the Devil had come to claim her.
Meg Shelton was buried in St Anne's churchyard, but her body refused to stay underground. The following morning, her corpse was found lying beside her grave. She was reburied, and once more her corpse reappeared. Finally, the priest performed an exorcism and Shelton was buried for the third time, but this time she was interred in a narrow vertical hole, like an oversized post hole, and she was inserted upside down, so that if she tried to dig her way to the surface she'd be going the wrong way. Finally, a boulder was placed over the top of her unusually-shaped grave.
You'll see her tomb three or four times in my flight... Can you spot it??? Dare you look?
Paul.
That`s a brilliant photo mate, I`d be getting that one framed !
You`ll need to be up all night and down wind for any chance of a Pine Marten, either that or a camera trap ?
Marius57
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Think I’ve found a bloke who has a camera hide with one way glass set up in his garden. Has a pond and backs up into the forest. Get gets them visiting daily so think I may pay for the experience as I’m desperate to see them. One of the few animals I have always been desperate to see.
Marius57
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So I went and paid for the chance to see them. And I am buzzing. He had bought a dilapidated bungalow to do up and they were living in the attic. So he set it up and so they are wild but used to noise and light. He gave us a discount as it’s expensive so I wasn’t going to go.
Took this this morning, when I was walking the dog.
There’s a few old tree stumps that people put food out for the birds and this massive slug was on it.
That's superb mate. I'm not at all envious . . . honest.
Perhaps somebody put them out for the birds lol
I would definitely pay.
Good on the bloke for providing the opportunity to view them.
