Fucking Spiders!!! :(

[Luvkitty33]

Um, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but . . .

black widow spiders are shy and prefer dark, damp areas. They only bite if they feel you are threatening their egg sac. It's more likely a brown widow.

Here's some links to sites on black widows:

http://www.desertusa.com/july97/du_bwindow.html (scroll down to behavior)

http://www.pestproducts.com/blackwid.htm

"The female black widow spider rarely leaves her web. The web she constructs is an irregular, tangled, cris-cross web of rather coarse silk. The core of the web is almost funnel shaped, woven into a silken tunnel in which the female spider spends the majority of her daylight hours. This web is altered and rebuilt in a regular basis and is capable of capturing rather large insects. The female wraps any captured prey with her silk, repeatedly turning her victim with her legs as she applies more silk. After her victim is covered in silk, the spider kills her prey by injecting her venom. The prey might be eaten immediately or reserved for a later feeding. After the prey is fed upon and the body fluids are sucked from the victim, the carcass is cut loose and allowed to drop to the ground. The female black widow is most often found hanging upside down in her web, where she spends most of her daytime hours. She stays close to her egg mass, defensively biting anything that disturbs her or her egg sac.

Oh, and fyi - male black widows are not poisonous. They don't even look like the females. Here's a picture of both the male and female black widow.

Thanks for the links, Graceanne!! Those pics so creep me out, though! I keep feeling things crawling on me now, LOL!!

Anyway, I'm sure we have both the male and females in our house. The females are very obviously black widows though because they're so shiny and black with that big butt. Sometimes we've seen the red hourglass, but usually we can tell by the color and shape.

They are usually not out in the open at our house. They love to hide in the wood of our antique piano, behind this box that's against the wall, and we recently found them hiding underneath a lamp....inside the base of it. We've seen a few babies lately, too, but I was relieved to read in the article that you linked to that the babies are not poisonous.

Apparently, there are brown widows too that ARE poisonous, but the male black widows are not. That was an interesting fact I learned in the article, too.

All I can say is that they give me the MAJOR creeps!!!! Just looking at the pictures in the article I think is going to cause spider nightmares tonight!! *shivers*

 

[Luvkitty33]

Had a tarantula show up in my house via a bunch of bananas. I am very careful when I buy bananas now.

EWWWW!!!!! I buy bananas all the time, too!!!! Now I'll have to be careful before sticking my hand in the pile of bananas at the store to make sure there are no little (or big) friends that decide to come along for the ride!!!


P.S. How do I quote more than one person in the same post?

 

[Betticus]

EWWWW!!!!! I buy bananas all the time, too!!!! Now I'll have to be careful before sticking my hand in the pile of bananas at the store to make sure there are no little (or big) friends that decide to come along for the ride!!!


P.S. How do I quote more than one person in the same post?

quoting more than one person takes time, patience and hopefully notepad or word... I think you have to gather each quote individually. You could have your reply open in one window while grabbing the quoted text in another.

 

[Luvkitty33]

quoting more than one person takes time, patience and hopefully notepad or word... I think you have to gather each quote individually. You could have your reply open in one window while grabbing the quoted text in another.

Thank you, Betticus!! I think I'll just stick to doing it this way then....a separate post for each quote I'm replying to.

 

[EmpressFi]

That was bloody brilliant! LOL


I have a very simple rule in regard to creepy crawlies and my house...

"You have an entire garden to play in, if you cross the threshold of my door, you take your life in your hands"

That sounds like the deal I made with the spiders... if you're outside..we're fine.. inside.. I'm gonna find someone to kill ya

Last night, I was on the phone with Master and I walk into the family room and right into a spiderweb. Well, Master knows of my fear of spiders, starts talking about the spider crawling up my arms etc... after a few fits of giggles (his, not mine) and lots of begging from me.. he settles down. A few moments later, I see my youngest cat running across the floor.. chasing..a huge (*Getting chills again*) spider. Only she's more interested in playing with it.. as in.. *pounce* let it go.. chase it.. Pouce.. let it go.. chase it... until she loses the thing.. suddenly Master starts talkin about it crawling in my ear to lay eggs and how I'll have baby spiders crawling out of my ear.. or reminding me of the average number of spiders people eat while sleeping.... my Master, I love him, but sometimes, he's an evil bastard..

 

[kiten69]

It's a good thing that my cocoa tree is safe and sound in my house!

Yup, it's nice and safe in my corner.

Pssst. . .I painted the pot PINK!. . .I think it's a girlie tree

I now have 2 rose hair tarantulas. . .one for each kid . They don't bother me as much as they used to. . .of course they are in cages. I'm alright till I see one (any kind of spider) running free !!!

 

[FurryFury]

My husband is afraid of/ hates spiders. What fun!

 

[subgrl18]

eew i hate spiders... all of them. i once had a daddy longleg in my appt on the bathroom ceiling and i wouldnt touch it i just left it there till my friend came over and got it for me. somehow the idea of it possibly falling and me not knowing wear it was is much more scary then knowing where it is. eek.

 

[catalina_francisco]

I am happy because I have the cutest one on the outisde of our bedroom window....quite a climb for such a small cutie....same type as in my pics, but a little smaller this time.

Catalina

 

[buxxxom]

Spiders are like tiny poisonous freakish crabs that live in your house and you never can tell in which direction they're gonna scamper away because of all those legs! I hate spiders. Blech. Spider SOS-smash on sight!

 

[FurryFury]

My rules about spiders are as follows:

If they are not bothering me, I let them be.

Unless I can use them to freak out my kids or husband a bit.

*chuckles*

 

[graceanne]

My rules about spiders are as follows:

If they are not bothering me, I let them be.

Unless I can use them to freak out my kids or husband a bit.

*chuckles*

I wouldn't mind freaking out the kids, but then they want me to do someting about the spider, and I prefer to just leave them alone.

 

[VelvetDarkness]

Master is actually scared of spider so I am chief spider re-locator in our house. I've never been bothered by them myself. If I'm not around though, Master kills them which I don't like simply because it's so needless. WTF is a spider gonna do to my big bad dom? It's not as though we get black widows in kent.

 

[EmpressFi]

*shudder*

Much as I absolutely HATE spiders (and we get some NASTY fucking buggers up here), I am the spider killer in the relationship.

My honey... all 6'5", 235lbs of him, hockey player and all... is TERRIFIED of them. When he finds one, he comes running to me with a shoe or a hockey stick or something, and then drags me to the area of the spider, and points.

If I don't kill the spider, he like, whines.

*grin* It's actually incredibly cute.








Ahem. But I never told any of you about it.

I'm tellin I'm tellin... *grin*

 

[Betticus]

Yup, it's nice and safe in my corner.

Pssst. . .I painted the pot PINK!. . .I think it's a girlie tree

I now have 2 rose hair tarantulas. . .one for each kid . They don't bother me as much as they used to. . .of course they are in cages. I'm alright till I see one (any kind of spider) running free !!!

The cocoa tree's pot is terra cotta so it's already a pinkish color.

 

[DVS]

I was just sitting here posting and moved my leg. I felt a tiny little sting and a damn spider ran out from under my calf. I whacked it with a back scratcher and killed it but it looks like a recluse maybe.

I could be paranoid. I fucking hate spiders with a passion! Kill On Sight!

If it was a brown recluse, that's no laughing matter. Not everybody is affected the same by their bite, but in many cases, human tissue will break down and you end up with a dent where the bite was.

My sister was bitten by one, in her sleep and she now has a concave area in her shoulder about the width of a quarter and the depth of a dime. She also had a bad stomach ache for several days after. Some people have actually died from a recluse bite.

Of course, I'd think a small one won't be such a danger, but if there's one, you can bet there's more. Just from their name, you're not going to see them that often.

And a word to the wize...you should be sure to find out what kind of spider bit you before you squish it. It's not that easy to tell if it was a brown recluse, after you've turned it into a squishy mass of ick and legs.

I once played with a large recluse, in my garage. I noticed he seemed rather smart when it came to my attempts to mess with him. He would run for a while, then stop dead in his tracks. Then, I could swat him sideways with my hand and he'd roll like a ball and play dead, with legs up. Then, after about 10 seconds, he'd be off so fast, you'd see nothing but a brown blur.

I'd catch up with him and he'd stop dead in his tracks, again. Again I'd swat him and he'd do the same rolling trick again. Eventually, he didn't wait the 10 seconds before dashing off into the dark. It turned out he was messing with me as much as I was messing with him.

 

[Sharon_]

Master is actually scared of spider so I am chief spider re-locator in our house. I've never been bothered by them myself. If I'm not around though, Master kills them which I don't like simply because it's so needless. WTF is a spider gonna do to my big bad dom? It's not as though we get black widows in kent.

Black widows have an undeserved rep--they're not all that bad, and they don't come in your house anyways. Barns, corners of windows & doors (outside). Of more concern are the wood spiders (aka brown recluse), and even those only cause significant problems for some of the population.

Kids of all ages (well, 6-17) take great delight in dropping bugs on my head at camp - live ones, dead ones, some of them spiders. It's a good thing I'm not askeered. Small campers can smell fear, ya know - and once that happens the adult is toast.

For the arachnophobic adults - I hear tell the average human swallows two spiders a year while they're sleeping; durn things crawl right into our open mouths.

--
"We do not stop playing because we grow old;
we grow old because we stop playing."

 

[HottieMama]

Spiders are NASTY f'in things.

My almost 3yo was bit by one at the end of June and spent 24 hours in the hospital as a result of his reaction.

i don't hesitate to kill any one that i see.

 

[im_a_voyeur]

Did somebody say spiders??!!


*runs screaming in horror from this thread*

 

[Kajira Callista]

these or some spider that looks just like them are all around outside (and sometimes in)
you can see them look at you *shivers* i hate spiders
http://www.naturephoto-cz.eu/pic/krasensky/xysticus-sp.-1740.jpg

 

[Yang4yin]

I'd hate to see a spider that's big enough for me to fuck!

 

[h_i_s]

How can you hate such amazing creatures?!! ..............


Catalina

I agree with Catalina. Spiders are beautiful.
Though, I prefer big tarantulas.. I am afraid to let the type found in my house.. or my yard touch me.... cuz the tarantulas He and I keep as pets won't bite and never have so far... but the others will.

Here's a photo of me, in body paint [airbrushed by a local artist] ... kissing a rosehaired tarantula:
http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u274/h-i-s/lit-kiss-threadphoto.jpg

 

[INSIDEYOURMIND]

This is my favorite in that series!
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff1/MrSnakeman/IMG_4566copy.jpg
Spiders in your house kill and eat all the bad bugs.

Catalina, we have a new snake, and it eats goats!!!!!!!!!!!!
This photo will give you an idea of the size of her!
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff1/MrSnakeman/crucified1.jpg