Halloween Spider

[boneaddict]

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]

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

[boneaddict]

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

[boneaddict]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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!!