Author Topic: Halloween Spider (Read 12797 times)

tlbradford · « **on:** October 19, 2012, 12:34:36 AM »

This gal was on a 10' ceiling. I balanced on the top of a 4' ladder for these shots. I didn't get a chance to photograph the largest black widow I have ever seen. I had to sheet the garage wall so it just got squished instead.

dvolmer · « **Reply #1 on:** October 19, 2012, 08:40:43 AM »

very cool!!!

C-Money · « **Reply #2 on:** October 19, 2012, 08:44:38 AM »

Nasty looking think.

lokidog · « **Reply #3 on:** October 19, 2012, 08:47:59 AM »

I like the shadow effects, nice pics.

Alchase · « **Reply #4 on:** October 19, 2012, 11:37:36 AM »

Evil, evil critters that need to be eraticated from existance - besides that nice photo!

What kind of spider is that?

jaymark6655 · « **Reply #5 on:** October 19, 2012, 11:45:07 AM »

Quote from: Alchase on October 19, 2012, 11:37:36 AM

Evil, evil critters that need to be eraticated from existance - besides that nice photo!

What kind of spider is that?

A dead one (I hope).

tlbradford · « **Reply #6 on:** October 19, 2012, 10:48:41 PM »

Quote from: Alchase on October 19, 2012, 11:37:36 AM

Evil, evil critters that need to be eraticated from existance - besides that nice photo!

What kind of spider is that?

It is a younger female black widow. The young ones have that brownish color to them.

buckcanyonlodge · « **Reply #7 on:** October 20, 2012, 06:29:42 AM »

Looks like a male Western Black Widow

Here is a pic of a male

BOWHUNTER45 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 20, 2012, 07:03:41 AM »

I hate spiders

boneaddict · « **Reply #9 on:** October 20, 2012, 07:29:52 AM »

Only spider I really hate. I got nailed by a big blackie and thought I was going to die. More accurately I almost wanted to die.

boneaddict · « **Reply #10 on:** October 20, 2012, 07:38:24 AM »

Pretty hard for the average blok to tell the immature female and male apart. Ironically I would have called Travis's an immature male and the one you posted an immature female. I usually tell "guess" by the pronounced thingamijiggers on their front end(males have them females don't). Fortunately they usually get the stomp so it really doesn't matter.

7mmfan · « **Reply #11 on:** October 20, 2012, 08:27:53 AM »

Saw a few when I lived in E-Burg, thank god we don't have those things on the west side. Love being able to root around in my garage without having to worry about them

boneaddict · « **Reply #12 on:** October 20, 2012, 08:59:45 AM »

THats how I got nailed. Pulling down snowtire from the rafters. Bit me in the hand. I though I was going to lose it. HORRIBLE HORRIBLE stomach cramps. Man I was sick and my hand turned black.

Bean Counter · « **Reply #13 on:** October 20, 2012, 02:38:23 PM »

I just killed two on my back patio. Used the grill lighter

Austrian Hunter · « **Reply #14 on:** October 20, 2012, 02:44:20 PM »

I hate spiders!!!

carpsniperg2 · « **Reply #15 on:** October 20, 2012, 02:58:36 PM »

I hate them with a passion as well. I had one run up my arm when pulling weeds here at the house. I froze and yelled at my dad, he was able to knock her off me. Why in the hell she did not bite me is still unknown.

buckcanyonlodge · « **Reply #16 on:** October 20, 2012, 03:27:28 PM »

Quote from: boneaddict on October 20, 2012, 07:38:24 AM

Pretty hard for the average blok to tell the immature female and male apart. Ironically I would have called Travis's an immature male and the one you posted an immature female. I usually tell "guess" by the pronounced thingamijiggers on their front end(males have them females don't). Fortunately they usually get the stomp so it really doesn't matter.

I got the pic from a bug website and they called it a male. The females were all black. with no red on the top just the red hourglass on the belly. Grew up in Yakima and had blackies all the time. Even caught them and kept them in glass jars and fed them other spiders and bugs. Never saw any blackies with these type of markings until the 90's. I guess they came up from California with migrants.

tlbradford · « **Reply #17 on:** October 20, 2012, 09:37:03 PM »

Interesting on the male/female discussion. I never knew the males got that colorful. I ended up squishing a huge female that was behind a sheet of plywood in the same garage. With legs she was the size of a 50 cent piece. Probably this one's mate. In Spokane we get the ones with the speckles on their back. Wilson Creek would be the traditional hourglass. Tonasket area has this type, pitch black, and speckles. Pretty neat as long as they don't suprise you.

Hillbilly270 · « **Reply #18 on:** October 20, 2012, 09:50:11 PM »

Quote from: 7mmfan on October 20, 2012, 08:27:53 AM

Saw a few when I lived in E-Burg, thank god we don't have those things on the west side. Love being able to root around in my garage without having to worry about them

I swore when i was at school in Eburg I saw one but everyone told me they dont exist in washington. It was this time of year and i opened the driver door to my rig and it dropped down by my seat somewhere and disappeared. I was freaked for weeks.

carpsniperg2 · « **Reply #19 on:** October 20, 2012, 10:07:09 PM »

They are for sure around here!!!

shoot-em-dead · « **Reply #20 on:** October 20, 2012, 10:13:23 PM »

We built a block wall in Tri-cities last summer and just about every other block had black ones with the hourglass on them. I didn't know what they were until the job was just about finished.

RadSav · « **Reply #21 on:** October 20, 2012, 11:59:20 PM »

Quote from: boneaddict on October 20, 2012, 08:59:45 AM

THats how I got nailed. Pulling down snowtire from the rafters. Bit me in the hand. I though I was going to lose it. HORRIBLE HORRIBLE stomach cramps. Man I was sick and my hand turned black.

I'm never going to use an out house or sanican on the eastside ever again

I've seen and killed plenty in Arizona, but never here.

Very cool pictures!

csaaphill · « **Reply #22 on:** October 21, 2012, 12:22:56 AM »

freaky cool pic still hate em with a passion.
Makes my skin crawl lol.

Todd_ID · « **Reply #23 on:** October 21, 2012, 07:40:59 AM »

I see them quite often at my place in Clarkston. But they only seem to survive at the low elevations (in town). Good luck if you need to work on a sprinkler valve box or water meter box. Ours are pretty much all the perfect black. The males (as in your picture) can have a bit of brown when young and small, have the red hour glass on the top and bottom of the abdomen, and are smaller than the females; males are to be squished still, but they don't bite. Females are all black on the top of the abdomen with a larger and more pronounced hour glass on the bottom; they are to be squished with something other than your bare hand as they are the aggressive ones. From a foot away or more they will run and hide. Get inside a foot and she will move at you; touch her and she will attack hard and quick.

Cool Pics. Good job with the squishing. But....a sheet of plywood? Isn't that like using a .338 on grouse?

tlbradford · « **Reply #24 on:** October 21, 2012, 01:26:36 PM »

Lol, it was behind a sheet of plywood when I moved it. I used a small block of wood for the kill. You are exactly right on the sprinkler boxes and water meters, especially if you have some rigid insulation in them. I was really clueless on the males. I thought they were colorless for the most part.

About a week ago, I killed one right at the entrance to the house. Then the next morning at about 5:30 am I open the same entrance and walk right through some webbing. I spaz out and throw my hat off and sweep my face and shoulders. Luckily, it was just a house spider that dropped off of me, but I was close to needing a change of drawers.

jtw · « **Reply #25 on:** October 21, 2012, 02:37:48 PM »

I've run into a few in houses on the westside, rare but we do have them.
Anything that dangerous scares the *censored* out of me.

boneaddict · « **Reply #26 on:** October 22, 2012, 08:28:29 AM »

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I got the pic from a bug website and they called it a male. The females were all black. with no red on the top just the red hourglass on the belly. Grew up in Yakima and had blackies all the time. Even caught them and kept them in glass jars and fed them other spiders and bugs. Never saw any blackies with these type of markings until the 90's. I guess they came up from California with migrants.

I think you are missing the immature part. Yes, we all know about big blackies. Thats a MATURE female.

jaymark6655 · « **Reply #27 on:** October 22, 2012, 11:11:16 AM »

Quote from: csaaphill on October 21, 2012, 12:22:56 AM

freaky cool pic still hate em with a passion.
Makes my skin crawl lol.

This whole thread makes my skin crawl. Funny that someone mentioned plywood sheet being the same as using a .338, given the choice I would use that .338 on the spider.

tlbradford · « **Reply #28 on:** October 22, 2012, 07:50:14 PM »

So will the spider in my photo eventually lose most of its color and get a pale brown with very little markings?

trophyhunt · « **Reply #29 on:** October 22, 2012, 07:56:37 PM »

I work in kent and seatac, we have a guy a work that took a picture of a black widow in a water meter box. God I hate spiders, they should all die.

boneaddict · « **Reply #30 on:** October 22, 2012, 09:04:40 PM »

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So will the spider in my photo eventually lose most of its color and get a pale brown with very little markings?

Let it bite you. If your arm turns black and almost falls off and you feel like dieing, then its a female and will probably turn black........If it bites you and nothing but a little welt appears its a male.

Honestly Travis, that would be my guess, but like I said , they tend to get the boot prior to any skirt lifting.

tlbradford · « **Reply #31 on:** October 22, 2012, 11:46:09 PM »

I guess I should say hypothetically speaking, since this guy has been properly flattened.

boneaddict · « **Reply #32 on:** October 23, 2012, 04:51:00 AM »

I'm glad you don't have a breeding program going for the things.....

boneaddict · « **Reply #33 on:** October 23, 2012, 04:52:52 AM »

on a side note, I flipped the cover off my entrance to go under my house and there were no less than 30 immature ones crawing everywhere. If that doesn't make you pucker when you crawl under your house......

I think I will wait to put air in my pressure tank AFTER it freezes hard.

jaymark6655 · « **Reply #34 on:** October 23, 2012, 06:18:43 AM »

Quote from: boneaddict on October 23, 2012, 04:52:52 AM

on a side note, I flipped the cover off my entrance to go under my house and there were no less than 30 immature ones crawing everywhere. If that doesn't make you pucker when you crawl under your house......

I think I will wait to put air in my pressure tank AFTER it freezes hard.

They need to make throwable bug bombs, all the ones I see have to sit upright. Kick the door open, throw four or five under house and wait four hours. That would be great.

Gutpile · « **Reply #35 on:** October 23, 2012, 06:30:36 AM »

Spiders are cool. They are a big part of my income. My favorite is these guys though. They get HUGE and its an automatic sale if the wife is home. If I can reach them I spare them but unfortunately they usually put they webs up high.

boneaddict · « **Reply #36 on:** October 23, 2012, 06:52:00 AM »

Thats one of my faves. Very nice spider. THey are a pain to photograph. FINALLY getting a population of them at my home. I grew up watching them in the barn on my ranch.

Kowsrule30 · « **Reply #37 on:** October 23, 2012, 02:25:29 PM »

We do have blackies on the west side just to let everybody know... I've done a bunch of construction over here... I was born in Yakima and grew up there during most summers at Grandma's ranch... Her basement was the scariest place there... Most places you won't find one real one here on the wet side... Just the common look a like that is a lot smaller with no hour glass... But if you find one real blackie it's not gonna be the only one!!! Like bone... I will not be going under my house to fix a heating duct until a really good freeze... Probably late November....

Hate spiders!!!

PlateauNDN · « **Reply #38 on:** October 24, 2012, 02:59:45 PM »

sure they're fun to look at in photographs and glass cases but around me and my domain, they get the boot ASAP no questions asked without hesitation (after i'm done running and screaming like a little girl of course)!

S&W38spc · « **Reply #39 on:** November 16, 2012, 10:07:50 PM »

Quote from: PlateauNDN on October 24, 2012, 02:59:45 PM

sure they're fun to look at in photographs and glass cases but around me and my domain, they get the boot ASAP no questions asked without hesitation (after i'm done running and screaming like a little girl of course)!

I hear ya dude! I cant stand them either!!

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