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The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
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The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

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Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 73,136 Send Message	AnnCardiff	Report	25 Sep 2013 14:06
	Have you ever wondered how on earth a spider can construct a web which reaches a few feet across? Walking down my garden just now there's a web from my rotary line to a nearby tree - about six feet way - how can they do that?
	Researching: Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me
Member Since: August 2012 Posts: 7,081 Send Message	OneFootInTheGrave	Report	25 Sep 2013 14:15
	No idea, but this one spins a big web, don't think I would eant to get to close to it http://digitalwildlife.co.uk/minibeasts/spiders/waspspider.htm
	Researching: I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"
Member Since: October 2006 Posts: 6,889 Send Message	RolloTheRed	Report	25 Sep 2013 14:27
	Ah the beauty of the sun shining through a spider's web on a dewey autumn morning! The technology of spiders is well beyond any materials know how of homo sapiens. They have a lot of other secrets as well as spinning webs. Spiders were around on earth hundred of millions of years before men. They are among the most likely candidates to voyage off to G Heather's brave new world. We never bother them, shoo them outside, poison them or squash them.
	Researching: The Man In the High Castle
Member Since: September 2003 Posts: 17,300 Send Message	Island	Report	25 Sep 2013 14:31
	They wait for the wind direction to be right and leap. That spider is fab OFITG :-D - they're not moving very fast though are they? :-(
	Researching: I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 73,136 Send Message	AnnCardiff	Report	25 Sep 2013 14:40
	I don't mind spiders at all - I think they are fascinating
	Researching: Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me
Member Since: September 2003 Posts: 17,300 Send Message	Island	Report	25 Sep 2013 14:55
	It throws the first thread. http://science.howstuffworks.com/zoology/insects-arachnids/spider5.htm
	Researching: I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday
Member Since: November 2010 Posts: 72,449 Send Message	Mersey	Report	25 Sep 2013 15:20
	I love spiders...apart from big hairy ones squirms :-)
	Researching: #Be Kind
Member Since: September 2003 Posts: 17,300 Send Message	Island	Report	25 Sep 2013 15:22
	Big hairy ones Mersey? :-0
	Researching: I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday
Member Since: November 2010 Posts: 72,449 Send Message	Mersey	Report	25 Sep 2013 15:36
	Huge tarantulas scarey
	Researching: #Be Kind
Member Since: September 2003 Posts: 17,300 Send Message	Island	Report	25 Sep 2013 15:38
	I don't think you'll find any of those trotting round your house Mersey :-D :-D I'd like to see one :-D
	Researching: I'd trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,113 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	25 Sep 2013 20:15
	we lived in Texas for a year in the mid-60s One evening, we were driving out of the shopping centre parking lot around dusk, and felt this "bump" as we went over something OH stopped, got out to have a look at what had happened, and then called me to get out also it was a "medium sized" tarantula :-S Some years later, up here by then, we went to a small town in Washington State for a rugby game, and were then invited back to one of the other players' house for the evening. He had a HUGE tarantula in a glass aquarium in the living room. The top of the aquarium was only covered by a sheet of glass. Tarantulas are occasionally found in bunches of bananas up here. That could also happen in the UK
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,113 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	25 Sep 2013 20:17
	Just as a side note ........................ the next time we went down to that town for a rugby game, we were invited to someone else's house. That guy had a de-skunked skunk as a pet. It was running around the living room quite freely.
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 24,533 Send Message	Bobtanian	Report	26 Sep 2013 00:06
	you mean the guests smelled worse than the skunk?
	Researching: me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960
Member Since: June 2005 Posts: 8,791 Send Message	LadyScozz	Report	26 Sep 2013 01:02
Member Since: June 2005 Posts: 8,791 Send Message	Would you like some Aussie spiders? Pics of some of them...... https://www.google.com.au/search?q=australian+spiders&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei= G3lDUvT1HIH5kAXYo4HYAw&ved=0CEUQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=739&dpr=1
Member Since: August 2012 Posts: 7,081 Send Message	OneFootInTheGrave	Report	26 Sep 2013 08:34
	How about this one :-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klHDzIIrsjY Click Skip The Ad
	Researching: I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"
Member Since: June 2005 Posts: 8,791 Send Message	LadyScozz	Report	28 Sep 2013 04:28
Member Since: June 2005 Posts: 8,791 Send Message	How to catch a Huntsman..... first eat a Toblerone.......... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3f99HhlpTo :-D :-D :-D :-D and then there's this one....... how NOT to catch a spider lolol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRV4d9LCawU :-0 or........ you could use the vacuum cleaner........ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysSrHJak2gM ;-)
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,705 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	28 Sep 2013 09:59
	This is quite interesting: http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/07/06/weekend-diversion-spider-webs-on-drugs/ :-D :-D :-D
	Researching: Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad)
Member Since: March 2007 Posts: 101,911 Send Message	Allan	Report	28 Sep 2013 10:20
	Leave us spiders alone! We enjoy the web, just like the rest of you :-\| :-D :-D :-D
Member Since: June 2005 Posts: 8,791 Send Message	LadyScozz	Report	28 Sep 2013 10:22
Member Since: June 2005 Posts: 8,791 Send Message	Allan, I always knew you were a Super Hero!! :-D
Member Since: March 2007 Posts: 101,911 Send Message	Allan	Report	28 Sep 2013 10:25
	Hello my Lady, I bow all my eight legs to you :-D :-D

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