help! rogue spider keeps hitting my gallery thumbnail directory

i get 1,000's of these in my error log

[Mon Aug 22 20:34:38 2005] [error] [client 66.249.65.51] File does not exist: /home/apug002/public_html/gallery/data/2/1001geese-on-frozen-pond-thumb.jpg
[Mon Aug 22 20:34:38 2005] [error] [client 66.249.65.51] File does not exist: /home/apug002/public_html/gallery/data/2/27294x5-_1_-thumb.jpg
[Mon Aug 22 20:34:38 2005] [error] [client 66.249.65.51] File does not exist: /home/apug002/public_html/gallery/data/2/2467Lensbaby_Maroccoo_7-thumb.jpg
[Mon Aug 22 20:34:18 2005] [error] [client 66.249.65.51] File does not exist: /home/apug002/public_html/gallery/data/503/124Bergen-thumb.jpg
[Mon Aug 22 20:34:12 2005] [error] [client 66.249.65.51] File does not exist: /home/apug002/public_html/gallery/data/502/136810-2VR-thumb.jpg
[Mon Aug 22 20:34:10 2005] [error] [client 66.249.65.51] File does not exist: /home/apug002/public_html/gallery/data/501/440Copy-of-90070005-thumb.jpg
[Mon Aug 22 20:34:09 2005] [error] [client 66.249.65.51] File does not exist: /home/apug002/public_html/gallery/data/501/4246SK_pocerady_kopie-thumb.jpg
[Mon Aug 22 20:34:07 2005] [error] [client 66.249.65.51] File does not exist: /home/apug002/public_html/gallery/data/501/186770140005a-thumb.jpg
[Mon Aug 22 20:34:07 2005] [error] [client 66.249.65.51] File does not exist: /home/apug002/public_html/gallery/data/501/1542LO02TAT1-thumb.jpg
[Mon Aug 22 20:34:02 2005] [error] [client 66.249.65.51] File does not exist: /home/apug002/public_html/gallery/data/500/356Nude-1-thumb.jpg
[Mon Aug 22 20:34:01 2005] [error] [client 66.249.65.51] File does not exist: /home/apug002/public_html/gallery/data/500/2432lori2-thumb.jpg

I'm no web guru but i'd like to keep this from happening. Currently all I can do is ban the ip addresses when i notice my server cpu going high. robots.txt doesn't stop them they ignore it..

thanks for any help!

 

 

 

 

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