Some creatures crawling around my house and garden (in the Netherlands)

(click on any image to see an enlarged version, ca. 1600x1200)








This is a big 'house spider' (probably a Tegenaria parietina or a Tegenaria duellica (1), (2)).
It ran into my house on a early Autumn morning. Just what I needed to play with my macro lens!
This beauty regained it's freedom after the photo session.





I am not particularly fond of these 'gray silverfish' (Ctenolepisma longicaudata, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (Dutch)).
They eat my books!





Negative image of a vibrating spider (Pholcus phalangioides)
They are all over my house! And they make quite a mess ...





OK, This Garden Spider (Araneus diadematus) lives in my garden, rather than in my house.
Note that it has a tiny claw at the end of each leg, through which it hangs on to it's web.





Bumblebee on a Pieris Japonica.





[© P. van de Haar. Page started September 26, 2007. This page was last updated on April 19, 2009]

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