Eekie-Freaky Creepy Crawlies

For discussion and photos of creatures we see that might not be considered adorable critters.

Please post your own photos if possible. :)

I'll start...with a repeat posting of a Rough Green snake I saw in my yard:





These snakes are non-aggressive, and non-venomous, about 24" long, and the width of a pencil!

Oh, sweet!

Very pretty. All of my garden snakes are a tan with stripes or golden brown.

My husband spotted this colony of baby spiders on the railing of our front deck. They're right behind my usual chair, which doesn't bother me at all. These are most likely Araneus gemmoides (Western Plains Orbweavers, aka Jewel Spiders) and quite harmless. At the moment they're smaller than pinheads and there are hundreds of them. This is only one of several blobs of closely packed spiders.

Here's something for you:



Hyla squirela, I think. Squirrel Frog. It's about an inch or so long, and I have four of them that hang out under the back deck umbrella on the spokes.

>5 tardis: I'm not afraid of spiders, per se, but I don't think I'd like to sit close to something like that...

>6 southernbooklady: cute!!

I had a surprise this morning, as I walked around my yard with camera in hand...something looked different on the top of our brush (burn) pile:




This is probably an adult Black Rat snake! After getting a couple of photos while he/she eyed me, I moved one of the branches, and was rewarded with a view of the snake slithering down into the pile. It was about 24" long, so it's not a Black Racer.

Correction: it has smooth scales, so it is a Black Racer.