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  • msg
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    @ptrooper - can you confirm?
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  • Viking64
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    Spider???

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  • agfrost
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    Kill spiders if you must, but we warned: We're all humanary stew if we don't pledge allegiance to the Black Widow.
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    Please don't touch the display, little boy. Oh-ho-ho... cute.

    Moving to the next aisle, we have Arachnida, the spiders, our finest collection. This friendly, little fellow is the Heptithilidae, unfortunately harmless. Next to him... the nasty Lycosa Raptoria. His tiny fangs cause creeping ulcerations of the skin.

    And here... my prize, The Black Widow. Isn't she lovely? And so deadly. Her kiss is fifteen times as poisonous as that of the rattlesnake. You see, her venom is highly neuro-toxic. Which is to say that it attacks the central nervous system; causing intense pain, profuse sweating, difficulty in breathing, loss of conciousness, violent convulsions, and, finally... uh, death. You know, what I think I love the most about her is her in-born need to dominate, posess. In fact, immediately after the consummation of her marriage to the smaller and weaker male of the specie, she kills and eats him. Oo-hoo, she is delicious! (And I hope he was.)

    If I may put forward a slice of personal phylosophy, I feel that Man has ruled this world as a stumbling, demented child-king long enough! And as his empire crumbles, my precious Black Widow shall rise as his most fitting successor!

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    Great album!
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  • jbreezy5
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    Hermitism wrote: »
    Maybe it's one of those subwoofer bed bugs.

    AFAIK bed bugs can’t survive in a subwoofer, due to the large 🕷


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  • txcoastal1
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    geez it's only a friggin spider

    Note to self, don't invite any polkies to go to the ranch ;)

    You guys act like it's Baba Yaga

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  • txcoastal1
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    https://youtu.be/P8H4XKwat7s
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  • F1nut
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    I've seen spiders in Texas that were large enough to shoot.
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  • mhardy6647
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    F1nut wrote: »
    I've seen spiders in Texas that were large enough to shoot.

    How do they hold the gun?

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    (sorry -- sometimes I just can't help myself...)
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  • BlueBirdMusic
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    Late in the day two Saturdays ago, I stuck my left hand in a work glove in the garage, and was bitten by a probable spider that I didn't see.

    Shortly thereafter, I noticed severe itching, swelling, and red skin at a point on my wrist. Next, I noticed all of the hairs on the back of my hand felt like lightning was going through them and were being pulled inside the skin. All of them!

    I took a couple of Benadryl tablets and decided to go to a new close-by hospital emergency clinic. I was given a strong steroid ointment prescription to apply which I could not obtain so late in the day. Picked the prescription on Sunday. It took 3-5 days for the itching, swelling, and some pain which ran up my arm beyond the elbow to go away.

    I assume it was a brown recluse after several people told me about bites that they had suffered.

    On Monday after the bite, I called the clinic as asked to let them know my condition. I told them the bite had worsened on Saturday night and Sunday. I told the clinic personnel that I didn't think the bite was taken seriously enough, and maybe some type of injection would have been best. My comments were documented.

    I mentioned all details to warn anyone bitten to be aware of the danger of the spiders and treatment.
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  • Jstas
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    txcoastal1 wrote: »
    geez it's only a friggin spider

    Note to self, don't invite any polkies to go to the ranch ;)

    You guys act like it's Baba Yaga

    https://youtu.be/PSBy8Mqh118



    It's not the spiders in Texas that are the problem. It's the friggin' grasshoppers and locust that get to be the size of a baseball with hooks for feet and if they happen to land on you, those hooks feel like needles digging in to you skin. They don't even bite, they're just dumb and fly in to you and they hurt when they do that!

    If that's what the spiders have to eat no wonder they are so big!

    Then again, I've had Texans come up here and encounter one of our wolf spiders or fishing spiders. The fishing spiders I've seen as big as a 4 inch leg span and I've had wolf spiders as big as a 6 inch leg span in the garage eating toads.

    This is a medium sized wolf spider:

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    The real problem with NJ is the southern half of the state's climate is warm enough that we'll get brown recluses but, additionally, we have two types of black widow spider to look out for.

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    The Black Widows will run from you long before they try to bite you. But I have had females with an egg ball trying to run away turnaround and raise their legs and front at me. Brown recluse are just jerks and they hide more often than anything. Thankfully most don't survive the winters here. You'll see them curled up in a ball in the spring in your wood pile, often with a dead egg ball nearby.
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  • msg
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    yikes. I had something similar happen once after working in the garage. started off as what I thought was a mosquito bite or an ingrown hair on the back of my thumb, which would have been odd.

    I think it was a weekend, and over the course of a couple of days, the swelling increased and the area started getting hot. It looked like I had a small white ulcer on my thumb. Then, I could feel a tightening of my hand when flexing my fingers or making it fist. My fingers and hand were swelling. I went to the doctor the next day or two and they gave me something, can't remember specifically. I think it might have been a short course steroid, probably with instructions to take benadryl.

    Another time, we were out riding bikes on the trails, and I rode under a low branch and felt a sharp stinging kind of feeling on the top of my head. The whole right side of my head and face swelled up. Never knew what it was, but it was probably a spider bite or a wasp sting. I've had a wasp sting on the chin area before, though. It didn't swell the whole side of my head.
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  • jdjohn
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    I remember in those old cowboy movies and TV shows when they'd call a guy 'yellow-bellied', but 'yellow sac' takes it to a whole 'nother level.
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  • pitdogg2
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    I don't know Jody but the rabid Wolf spider worries me....How do I explain I got rabies from a spider?
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  • mrbigbluelight
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    You arachnid lovers can't say that Ziggy didn't try to warn you. 🕷️

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5utC_KI_SKo
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  • mhardy6647
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    Re: rabid wolf spider. I think it's just a name. Maybe it was Rabbi Wolf Spider, and it just got corrupted somewhere along the line.
    oy vey!

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  • DaveHo
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    House backs up to some woods. We have wolf spiders, big ones. So much fun to be had refusing to kill them when Arachnophobic wife spots one...
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  • nooshinjohn
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    Juvenile Desert Recluse for the win... My kids play in the yard, so I guess I will be needing to get the yard treated, as my boys will play with anything that moves...
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  • mhardy6647
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    Sounds interesting & not so friendly.
    EDIT: Of course, kids are proportionately more at risk because they're smaller (volumetrically). What might be unpleasant for an adult could be fatal for a small child or a housepet. :(

    I remember spiders were pretty endemic in the Bay Area when we lived there. Webs everywhere.
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