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<Reply # 40 on 2/1/2006 1:46 PM >
|  | | | ft. howard pics coming soon
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jlm21221
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| | | | | Re: Question about Fort Howard (Baltimore, MD)
<Reply # 41 on 2/2/2006 6:07 PM >
| | | | Posted by andrea
That is an ass load of spiders. Ew.
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its crickets
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nytespryyte
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| | | Re: Question about Fort Howard (Baltimore, MD)
<Reply # 42 on 2/23/2006 7:03 PM >
| | | | The cave crickets are really creepy, they have tiny little spikey spines that help keep them on the walls. I only know this because they have followed my fiance and I home from the haunted dungeons. We have a full bodied dead cricket that we found under our bed. I still have no idea how it got into our house...
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0U812
Location: Lubbock, TX
Gender: Female
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| | Re: Question about Fort Howard (Baltimore, MD)
<Reply # 43 on 2/23/2006 7:16 PM >
| | | | Bug spray.
I figured out what's wrong with life:
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| | | Re: Question about Fort Howard (Baltimore, MD)
<Reply # 44 on 2/23/2006 8:02 PM >
| | | | Nice post Spookydan, I really liked the pic of the Argiope aurantia, garden spider. She's an interesting creature: they get fairly large, and have an elaborate array of survival skills. They love crickets, and are shy, and retreating when confronted; harmless. Great fun to do macro shots of. When alarm, or when trying to snare an insect they will oscillate their web back and forth. I have two egg sacks of them that I'm waiting to hatch out in the spring.
The tunnel looks way cool. Your were right not to go in blind. You always got to have a light on were you step. I hate falling into those holes to eternity! The animal sounds best guess is a raccoon. They sound like a gremlin a times.
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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res_novae
Location: NoVA
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Question about Fort Howard (Baltimore, MD)
<Reply # 45 on 2/26/2006 5:52 PM >
| | | | How damp is it in the tunnel?
I wonder if there are any good salamanders/wolf spiders/other cool bugs...
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Vinny
Location: city watershed wilderness area of Frederick, MD
Gender: Male
| | Re: Question about Fort Howard (Baltimore, MD)
<Reply # 46 on 3/1/2006 3:06 PM >
| | | | Posted by res_novae
How damp is it in the tunnel?
I wonder if there are any good salamanders/wolf spiders/other cool bugs...
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Well, I love reptiles and amphibians, especially toads and salamnders, and I have been in there several times this winter -- which is a pretty wet time of year -- and the tunnels and the room seem too dry to support any amphibians (i.e., salamanders, toads, frogs) but the small crickets are present in the deeper recesses year-round. Due to the relatively warmer temperatures of the innermost tunnel/room; they tend to remain at the yearly average ground temperature. The beautiful spiders are apparently not as hardy or tolerant, temperature-wise, and we have seen no spiders anywhere during our forays into this tunnel/hallway and others at the fort. The spiders also seem to prefer the light, and thus stay nearer to the entrance when they are present during warmer months.
I would like to take a moment to remind folks that these spiders and crickets, and the other insects as well, are harmless and are a normal and beneficial part of the environment. There is no need to harm them or to try to kill them. I have been noticing that a few folks have been suggesting using insecticide or other means to try to get rid of the insects, and this is not only not necessary, but harmful to many life forms.
Speaking of Fort Howard, here is a bit of a challenge for you to identify and possibly even figure out: There is a room in one of the bunkers/batteries at Fort Howard which has a door and a few windows, each of which are heavily sealed behind heavy steel doors and locked from the outside with sturdy external locks. Nonetheless, a light seems to burn inside the room 24 hours a day (you can see it thru the cracks, same as with three other larger rooms at the fort) and there seems to be always sounds coming from the room, including the sound of someone appearently sitting at a table and changing the channels on a VHF/UHF radio scanner. In the late afternoon, these sounds are replaced by the sounds of someone switching between channels on a TV set. Sue and I call the person who seems to be locked in the room "the prisoner of the fort". Spooky!
Getting back to the crickets: Sue and I have found the same small crickets in the deeper tunnels and hallways of nearby Fort Armistead as well. Fort Armistead really has only one building, divided into two batteries, far less than found at Fort Howard, but Fort Armistead has some intriguing tunnels and rooms. Of course, you may wishh to be aware that Fort Armistead, as a busier and more urban park, also has all of the phenomena that you would find in any busy urban park, including:
- gay sex cruising
- heterosexual crusing
- straight prostitution (female hookers)
- gay prostitution (male hustlers)
- recreational boaters
- tourists with cameras
- young lovers making out in monster trucks
- feral cats
- elderly men and women who drop by to visit the cats and give them food and water
- rats
- urban homeless people
- "street people", sometimes called "transients"; at least a few might be called "derelicts"
- drug and alcohol use onsite by some park visitors, particularly some street people
with care,
--Vinny
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| | | Re: Question about Fort Howard (Baltimore, MD)
<Reply # 47 on 3/1/2006 8:54 PM >
| | | | the Argiope aurantia is a sun loving spider who will build huge webs on southern exposures. they are harmless, shy, retreating creatures (from humans!).
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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res_novae
Location: NoVA
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Question about Fort Howard (Baltimore, MD)
<Reply # 48 on 3/4/2006 2:33 PM >
| | | | They also feed really well for the people. Just grab a small bug and chuck it in its web, it'll most likely eat it in front of you if you didn't scare it off.
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| | | Re: Question about Fort Howard (Baltimore, MD)
<Reply # 49 on 3/4/2006 6:15 PM >
| | | | Yes they give a good show. I had one in my backyard last year, enjoyed feeding her, and taking the pics. They can put out an enormous amount of silk for cocooning. These ones are wild to watch.
Just when I thought I was out... they pulled me back in.
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Vinny
Location: city watershed wilderness area of Frederick, MD
Gender: Male
| | Re: Question about Fort Howard (Baltimore, MD)
<Reply # 50 on 3/15/2006 12:00 AM >
| | | | A freind of mine operates an organic biodynamic farm in West Virginia, not far from here. Whenever I visited his tomato hoophouse (greenhouse) last summer, there were hundreds of these beautiful creatures suspended on their beautiful webs in among teh tomato plant trellises. Several times, when picking tomatoes (he is a consulting client, so I get free tomatoes) in the hothouse, I accidentally brought on or two of these spiders home with me, and only realized it a couple of days later when I found them spinning webs on our front doorstep. Wow!
with care,
--Vinny
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