Looking death in the eyes

[boneaddict]

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[GoldTip]

You and your freakin spiders and snakes Doug, dang you!  Cool pics, but dangit I got the willies now.

[boneaddict]

rest assured, I wasn't practicing catch and release on this one.  I've got more respect for these little guys than I do a wolf pack.  having experienced one of their bites, its not something I want to revisit

[carpsniperg2]

nasty buggers, we have them here. nothing like slipin a shoe on and wondering what might be in there

[Dmanmastertracker]

 Do you know of anyone who has been bitten by one over there Doug? I'm wondering how bad a bite they have, I've never heard of a fatality, but I know it's pretty bad. We had tarantulas in Oklahoma, they looked fierce but the bite was mild, like a bee sting.

[ribka]

Was that pic taken near your house?

Think I would rather be bitten by a snake than one of these

[sisu]

Do you know of anyone who has been bitten by one over there Doug? I'm wondering how bad a bite they have, I've never heard of a fatality, but I know it's pretty bad. We had tarantulas in Oklahoma, they looked fierce but the bite was mild, like a bee sting.

Unless you are sensitive a widow should not be worse than a bad case of the flu. The ones I am scared of are hobo & recluse. Nothing like necrosis of body parts to make your day.

I used to leave my pants & shirt right next to the bed on the floor! No more. Went to throw the pants on one morning when a BIG recluse dropped out of one pant leg!!!!!! Clothes get hung up every night and all foot gear gets a thorough banging and shaking before my feet slide inside.

[boneaddict]

We have hobos by the hundreds......they leave a necrosing sore usually.   I got bit by a widow a year or two ago.  I about lost my finger, it turned black and looked like it was going to rot off.   It was the worst stomache cramps I have ever had.  It was pretty aweful.   I was pulling the wifes snowtires out of the top of the garage.  Now I wear gloves. 

[PacificNWhunter]

Great shots bone, you always seem to find stuff most of us overlook.

[FC]

Spiders are really bad this year, I have killed thousands! I even found one of these nasty black widows in my garage here on the wetside, it joined it's dead cousins quickly...Inside my Shop-vac , for those of you with the willies you can rest easy now! I killed Gigantor: king of all the spiders here at my house about 6 weeks ago, no idea what kind but I decided it was too huge to live. It did exit a funnel shaped web though...

[saylean]

I love spiders, they're awesome! Great subject...my rose haired trantula is jealous, as he sits right by the computer and I am checking out another spider....

 

[sisu]

Spiders I like to keep around the outside of the house are wolf spiders & cat eared spiders. They both are very useful. Cat eared eat a lot of insects and the wolf eats any thing it can bite including other spiders. 

[mulehunter]

Nice Spider!    Pls keep it with you at your place. 

Mulehunter 

[Dmanmastertracker]

 When we were kids in Oklahoma we used to pour water down the spider holes and they would float to the top, we'd jar them up and sell them to tourist's instead of lemonade . We get Hobo's here too, I had to tear down a wooden shed I built because they were nesting in it, they really disappeared after that. My wife heard about Hobo's and was freaked out when I told her we had them, she said "what do they look like". I walked out back, turned over a rock, flattened one and brought it in and said -like that, only a little taller.

[boneaddict]

 

Just get up in the morning here and you'll find one in the tub.

[deadyote]

Those are cool.  I lived in Ashland, OR when I went to college and we had one as a pet named 'Killa'.  We kept him for a couple months until we found a preying mantis and put them together.  'Killa' was no match, the preying mantis whooped his butt.  Stood up on his back legs and swatted 'Killa' with his arms and destroyed him.  Now that was cool to watch. 

[predatorpro]

http://www.willardspestcontrol.com/brown_recluse.html
i know its tough to swallow but their are really no brown recluses in washington.....another myth just like the one "baby rattle snake bites are worse than adults"

[FC]

I truly wonder, I see a lot of spiders around my house and most are just the annoying but harmless brown ones making webs all over the place forcing me to kill them in great numbers but my garage is a different story, I have positively identified many hobo spiders, 1 black widow and a number of brown recluse spiders that apparently don't exist here. I've been bitten by either a hobo or recluse in the past a couple times, the bites took months to heal after developing into about a dime sized sore. Next time anyone wants samples they can empty my shop-vac when I am done cleaning the garage 

[Buckmark]

I was actually surprised to find a black widow a few weeks back at my place east, it's at 3600ft and in the north east part, i was doing some fence work and picked up an older greyed pine log, threw it over my shoulder to carry it to were i was working, set it down and right next to my hand about 1-2 inches was this black/rounded spider, i said to myself "huh, that looks like a widow, grabed my knife and flipped her over to see the red X. we had them all over in cali along with scorpions.

[FC]

Crazy, the last one I found was while working in the garage and it was right next to my hand when I pulled a shelf out of it's rack, they don't seem to be terribly aggressive. If it had been a wolf spider I would have been bit for sure!

[boneaddict]

Walk softly and carry a big stick....

[BoomWhop]

ugh crap I friggin hate spiders I grabbed my coffee cup I had sitting on a log while splitting wood a took a big slurp,   something lumpy when down with the coffee when I swallowed.  I looked into the cup and there was a spider leg twitching, musta been a wounded spider doing laps in my coffee.      I hate em'   But nice photos. 

[wsucowboy]

Dang spiders. Never have been bit by a bad one. Hope to keep it that way.

[JCClement]

 

[ICEMAN]

Dang spiders. Never have been bit by a bad one. Hope to keep it that way.

Yep, me too....

Doug, thanks for the reminder to spray the living crap out of my house and yard. Better go load up the sprayer!

[boneaddict]

OH BOOM thats disgusting.   

[DoubleJ]

Those are cool.  I lived in Ashland, OR when I went to college and we had one as a pet named 'Killa'.  We kept him for a couple months until we found a preying mantis and put them together.  'Killa' was no match, the preying mantis whooped his butt.  Stood up on his back legs and swatted 'Killa' with his arms and destroyed him.  Now that was cool to watch. 

http://www.japanesebugfights.com/

Make sure you queue this up at work.  You'll lose hours watching it.