Hi Steve,
Can i cheekily suggest that by "rescuing" the finch you were indeed
championing the cause of birds over other animals?
It died anyway and the spider lost a meal that it caught fair and
square :)
Cheers
Dave Stowe
On 16/03/2008, at 7:46 AM, Steve wrote:
Belinda......The other day I rescued a Double-barred Finch from
Spiderweb.
The bird was totally exhausted and,unfortunately, died shortly
after. This
was very sad. But it would not have occurred to me to kill the
spider. My
advice is to have equal regard for all native creatures and not
champion the
causes of birds over other animals.
Cheers Steve Murray
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Cassidy
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Subject: [Birding-Aus] Bird eating spider?
Hello!
We have an enormous spider in our yard (in Brisbane) that we
haven't seen
before. Its spectacular, with a body length around 7-8 cm. I
think I have
ID'd it correctly as `Nephila pilipes' The Northern Giant Orb
spider. The
link to the photo I took of it today is below:
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj144/Serenity-photos/SPIDER.jpg
So when I was trying to ID it on google, I came across a youtube
video of
one of these eating a young lewin honeyeater that it had trapped in
its
nest. OMG!
We are friends with our local birds and wouldn't want to see them
eaten by a
giant spider! But its also a very cool giant spider!
Should we kill it to stop it from eating birds and breedng up a
colony of
giant bird eating spiders? Or just leave it? I don't want to kill
it, but
then I'd feel pretty cut if a young bird I know died in its web.
Thanks for your opinions!
Cheers,
Belinda
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