Nature walk with Spider Joe, 10/28/2007
CFI Austin / Secular Family Network nature walk with Spider Joe. Joe introduced kids to Spiders 101. He and the kids caught a few spiders, which he put in little boxes with magnifying glasses, all the better to see a spider's anatomy, and passed around before releasing them. This tour was for older kids, and indeed, the 4 kids that attended were of ages 5-8, but I brought Erika anyway.
Once she got over her shyness, Erika had reasonable fun and even got excited about spiders. That's funny, because at home she's afraid of them. In fact, she's afraid of anything remotely spider-shaped. If she sees a tangled piece of thread lying on the floor, with ends sticking out in all directions, she cries: Mama! Spider! If I pick it up and try to show her it's not a spider, she jumps back, shrieking. So it was interesting that she wasn't scared of the creatures we encountered along the path. Maybe it was because they were a safe distance away, in somebody else's hands or under the glass.
I did not get many pictures of spiders. One, to be exact. The rest were too small, and I have never tried macro photography. Besides, they all looked kind of the same to me... small and brown. ;-)
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Date: 10/28/2007
Owner: Elze
Size: 11 items
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CIMG7928 Colin, Jennifer, and kids
listen to Joe's introduction on spiders.
Date: 10/28/2007
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CIMG7930 Children of the CFI Austin
Robin, Anna, Logan and Erin listen to Joe's introduction on spiders.
Date: 10/28/2007
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CIMG7932 Joe and jumping spider
One of the bugs Joe initially caught was a jumping spider. Joe tried to demonstrate that the spider spins a silk thread as it falls, to slow down its fall and keep from getting hurt. But, according to joe, the spider was "too jumpy" for that.
Date: 10/28/2007
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CIMG7937 Anna and Spider Joe
Date: 10/28/2007
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CIMG7940 CFI Austin girls
Erin, Robin and Anna
Date: 10/28/2007
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CIMG7950 Spider Joe and kids
The boy on the left holds a little glass box with a spider Joe caught. The box has a magnifying glass to better display the details of spider anatomy.
Date: 10/28/2007
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CIMG7953 Spider Joe holds a little glass box
He put spiders he caught in those little boxes and passed them around, allowing the squeamish among us to view spiders at safe distance yet in great detail. :-)
Date: 10/28/2007
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CIMG7958 Joe finds a wasp cocoon
Date: 10/28/2007
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CIMG7966 Joe, Colin and kids
climbed the rocks to see if they could catch any spiders that lived near the water.
Date: 10/28/2007
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CIMG7973 Joe passes a spider to Robin
They found a black / yellow garden spider, which wasn't really one of those spiders that live near the water. Joe said the spider was lost, so the kids picked it up and released it in the woods. Anyway, this was the only photogenic spider I saw on the tri
Date: 10/28/2007
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CIMG7959 CFI Austin children and Erika
While all the older kids are looking at whatever Joe is showing, Erika is off in her own world. :-)
Date: 10/28/2007
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