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Old 06-07-2011, 07:17 PM   #1
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Question Woodlands or Grass?

As to pink lady slippers, we have a half-dozen or more each year. This year, I've noticed some kind of small purple orchid-like flower among them. The soil is of poor quality, but is good enough to grow a few pine trees that two adults can't encircle to touch fingertips.

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Originally Posted by Lakesrider View Post
I believe they are called funnel web spiders. I get them too. You can really get a great picture of them on a misty day. or a good morning dew day.
At our place, those spiderwebs fully cover half of our acre. When morning dew is around, each web lights up brightly. It's quite the sight—and they're harmless.

But wouldn't you rather have your area a big, green, lawn of grassy species, instead of your property going to natural woodlands?

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"British arachnologists have estimated populations ranging from 11,000 spiders per acre in woodlands to more than 2 1/2 million individuals in a grassland acre."
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