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[bszopi]

Found this at my front door this evening, so I decided to catch it... wearing welding gloves, of course.




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[86FieroSEv6]

Yep, it's the little ones you gotta watch out for. They can be so damned hard to see. I don't have too many small spiders around here.



We commonly call these "corn spiders", we also have widows and recluses.

[ForcedFirebird]

Yep, it's the little ones you gotta watch out for. They can be so damned hard to see. I don't have too many small spiders around here.

We commonly call these "corn spiders", we also have widows and recluses.

we call those "bannana spiders" down here.

[BlackJack]

We get a lot of really big Orb Weavers around here. They commonly set up huge webs across my back porch in the evening, and usually the web is all cleaned up and gone without a trace by the next morning. I started leaving the back porch light on so it would attract bugs to feed them. They're generally harmless to humans.

However, Black Widows are another story. When I lived in Arizona, I found them everywhere around my house. I made sure my kids knew exactly what one looked like, and what they can do to a person, dangerous to adults, possibly deadly to small children. Between BW's, rattle snakes (I especially like the Mojave Green), and scorpions, Arizona was a great place to raise kids.

[bszopi]

We have brown recluses all over the place. I usually kill 2-3 a week in the house. But this is the first time I've seen a black widow. I think when I caught it, it was just trying to die. While I had it in the jar, it kept curling up unless I shook the jar some, and then it would walk around for a little bit. I finally released it a little later, out by the street. It walked around for a little while, but then stopped. I checked on it about an hour later, and it was still curled up in the same spot, so I'm guessing it died.

[BlackJack]

I went to Orscheln's Home and Farm and bought this:


and then looked up several of the available products that are generel pesticides (industrial grade, not grocery-store crap) but those won't bother BW's or Brown Recluse. I had to get an extra pesticide that was targeted for those.

Now, I'm relatively spider and bug free inside my house.

Good luck

[Teardrop]

I think hornets or wasps are more welcome than arachnids.
At least wasps and hornets have the decency to sleep at night and nest outdoors instead of looking for INDOOR places to build their estates.

Arachnids and vespidae are natural enemies.

[tkoforpresident]

I don't know how you guys can do it. I could not live where there are that many deadly spiders and insects. Up here in the B-lo we trade dangerous animals/ insects for a couple of Blizzards each winter. I like that bargain.

[60dgrzbelow0]

I don't know how you guys can do it. I could not live where there are that many deadly spiders and insects. Up here in the B-lo we trade dangerous animals/ insects for a couple of Blizzards each winter. I like that bargain.

Amen, MAX... As far as I'm concerned .... Down here in Florida... they can all Kill and Eat each other! At least you don't have an insect that can drop from the rafters of your garage ...with the neighbor's Pekingese in its mouth! LOL

Arachnids and vespidae are natural enemies.

Have a look at these epic disagreements...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0LJIQkIqnY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnguQZjRBVA&feature=related

Here is what happens when a Black Widow nabs you...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMLCMfZXuI0&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaZ-3SZtARY&feature=related

[tkoforpresident]

ewww gross Bob.

[IsaacHayes]

I posted these before, I found a BW too, only the 3rd one I've seen in my lifetime (thousands of brown recluses though). I'd rather have BW than recluses, they aren't as mobile all inside your home, and tend to just stay in their web. Only spiders you find inside are recluses here.. They must kill everything else.

[60dgrzbelow0]

Isaac... What an excellent contribution... and I only hasten to add that what to look for in particular with these nasty arachnids (unless you kill anything moving within your purview with eight legs right on the spot...) is the presence of the "Cello" , "Viola" or "Bass Fiddle" design on the creature's back. By all means...kill them all...especially these!

[bszopi]

Little known fact - brown recluses can walk on water. Had one drop out of who knows where and into the bath while my daughters were in there. I was suprised to see it was quite mobile until I killed it.

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[60dgrzbelow0]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik3HAbQ0zno&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYIYk33G9G0&NR=1

[Teardrop]

Little known fact - brown recluses can walk on water.
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Aww man, any MORE good news about those little bastard recluses?

I believe the recule was originally found in the south, cause where else would they call it a "fiddle back"? (Think of Johnny beating the Devil down in Georgia)

First time I saw one and knew what it was, one of them decided to investigate my Chi flat iron in the bathroom.

With spiders VS wasp - yeah if a wasp finds itself in the nest, it is f***ed. I root for the wasp though, I don't hate them quite as much.