Spiders

[Torrey72]

Originally Posted by Dunenutt

I had a similar experience with a Badger once, except I really was scared! I believe I peed just a little bit...

I would have had to change my shorts if a Badger jumped out

[Number21]

I always keep a trigger start torch handy in the shop...anything that moves gets cooked!

On a side note, don't spray them with carb cleaner before trying to torch them.

[ETsC10]

Originally Posted by Number21

I always keep a trigger start torch handy in the shop...anything that moves gets cooked!

On a side note, don't spray them with carb cleaner before trying to torch them.

Yum! Eight-legged Flambé!

[IndyNova]

Originally Posted by Torrey72

I would have had to change my shorts if a Badger jumped out

was it the honey badger? Cause he doent give a sh*t..
(if you guys havent a clue as to who the honeybadger is, youtube it)

After reading this, I will be bombing my truck as soon as we get home!!

[ls1nova71]

Brown recluse spiders are HARD to get rid of. I usually do the 'smash em on sight' method. I've tried sprays, bombs and even the hokey old timer remedy of putting hedge apples around, and they are still in my garage. I've read the only way to get rid of them is to remove their food source, by killing the bugs. Which would work in theory, but I know for a fact that they can live for months with no food or water. I don't know how they can, but they can. I caught one and had it in a cup with a lid on it in my garage for a long time, and would check on it from time to time, and at times it appeared dead, but shaking the cup it would wake right back up! I'm sure someone somewhere would find this experiment inhumane, but I F'ing hate these things!!

That said, I just got done painting my bed the other day in my garage with no exhaust fan (long story, involves a crabby neighbor and the city, need I say more?) and the garage was almost uninhabitable when I got done spraying, then a day or so later, I find this walking out in the open!!!! It's been in the cup for maybe 4 days, I'll post back on here when it's no longer alive, probably be several months.

BTW this is a not so reclusive Brown Recluse, that is between quarter and half dollar size with it's legs spread out.

[MudBug]

Fiddle backs are hard to kill because they walk on the points of their legs.The poisons sprayed depend on them to drag across the stuff.I over bomb when I use spray bombs.

[BLAZERMAN]

The Brown Recluse is said to be in about 90% of homes in the midwest, they get there name because they are hard to spot..they dont make webs like other spiders and hide in the deepest darkest spots until disturbed. There was a case a few years ago here where a woman got a towel out of a closet to dry her fase, and was bitten on the nose by one..she lost her nose completly! heres a few pics of a mans hand that got bitten.

Day 5 6 9 and 10

[ETsC10]

Nasty stuff there! Here in western Washington we have the Hobo spiders; also poisonous. Fairly common
tunnel weaver and not actually agressive to people unless buggered with.

Luckily, we also have a large spider called the agressive house spider and, though it can bite, it doesn't
pack the wollup of the Hobo. Big, nasty looking guys but we are lucky we have these spiders as the Hobo
is one of it's common prey and they are slowly nudging out the Hobo population.

This one is male. Females are larger and don't have the bulbous things on the front of them.

[1BadAction]

Oh hai!

[68jewel]

Originally Posted by BLAZERMAN

The Brown Recluse is said to be in about 90% of homes in the midwest, they get there name because they are hard to spot..they dont make webs like other spiders and hide in the deepest darkest spots until disturbed. There was a case a few years ago here where a woman got a towel out of a closet to dry her fase, and was bitten on the nose by one..she lost her nose completly! heres a few pics of a mans hand that got bitten.

Day 5 6 9 and 10

I'm in the medical field and I'm a paramedic of 13 years and work in 2 emergency rooms part time. This is an extreme case for this particular guy not getting treated in time. If he would have noticed his thumb swelling and getting hard from all of the tissue necrosis(rot) and purulence(puss) inside and gone to the hospital in the early days, say 2-3 days, a doctor would have lanced it(cut) with a scalpel, drained it and injected it with an antibiotic. Trust me, 90% of the cases that go to the hospital in time only go so far as to look as this guys hand did on day 5. Most people will go to the hospital by then from all of the pain and itching.

[Mike Bradbury]

Out here in California we have a hybred of the Black Widow called the Brown Widow. It has the same extremely strong web (that is a tell tale sign that a widow is close by), as well as the red hourglass spot. The dangerous thing about the Brown's is they do not mind being out in the open, where the Black widows like to be in dark cool areas. They have a very unique egg sack that looks like an old style ocean mine. Their bite is every bit as toxic as the their black cousin. I torch everyone I see.

[ETsC10]

I’m glad you brought up the spider egg subject Mike.

For those of us who ship or receive parts from around the country (or world), it’s imperative we
check closely for egg sacs or plant parts and twigs.

Especially in our coastal regions, where the weather is so temperate, we are very prone to introducing
non-native species to our areas which our native predators and pathogens are ill suited to handling.

As in the case of Mike’s Brown Widow, I would hate to flip over an old chair just to find one of
these nasties leering at me...indeed a safety concern.

As mentioned, encouraging natural controls is often best as bugs have a habit of becoming
conditioned to chemical controls which can eventually make them even harder to control.


And Good Morning to you Dunenutt!!!

[Mike Bradbury]

Better to have the hee bee gee bees than to have a thumb that looks like that

[superstock1489]

Had a similar incident when I moved some stuff in my garage and what I thought was a cat scurried behind some other parts and when I moved those I saw a wide white stripe!!! (a skunk!!) man did I get outta there in a hurry! Ended up using the pressure washer to "hose" him out!.. Went around and fixed every hole I could find after that!

[ETsC10]

Originally Posted by superstock1489

Had a similar incident when I moved some stuff in my garage and what I thought was a cat scurried behind some other parts and when I moved those I saw a wide white stripe!!! (a skunk!!) man did I get outta there in a hurry! Ended up using the pressure washer to "hose" him out!.. Went around and fixed every hole I could find after that!

Hehe...I'll just bet you did!

Pretty cool animals really, when de-scented.

I would think if we could blend a cat with nifty fir and a
mild-mannered ferret, you might get a skunk.

Raccoons however...

BTW superstock1489...WELCOME TO OUR TOOL ROOM!