Two spiders with their web stretched completely across a woods path.
![[Two spiders]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-07-19--spiderwebs/20250719_083312.jpg)
The second web is harder to see, but it goes from ground level up about 20 feet and equally wide. It has about half a dozen spiders in it. Continue reading
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Scorpion 2021-08-21
“It’s stinging me!” screeched Gretchen as she rushed into the house.
Yes, “screeched” is the word she later used to describe the loud noise she made.
![[On the sink]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2021-08-21--scorpion/20210821_233106.jpg)
As you can see, she then managed to fling this Striped Bark Scorpion off her, but the Centruroides vittatus landed on the sink.
Like the one I stepped on recently, this one hurt like a bee sting, but caused no noticeable damage by the next morning.
The amusing part is that Gretchen did not get this scorpion here at the farm.
She got it in downtown Valdosta.
-jsq
Bathroom spider
The spider that keeps insects out of the bathroom:
The spider that keeps insects out of the bathroom
Pictures by John S. Quarterman for Okra Paradise Farms, Lowndes County, Georgia, 8 July 2012.
It likes that little stool I put there for it! Some people have aquariums….
-jsq
What’s that on the fence post?
It moves fast:
Hm, it’s a black spider Continue reading