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Old 08-19-2012, 02:20 AM   #76
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...and cause a spider stampede...
OMG Mike!!! I about jumped out of my skin when you mentioned a spider stampede!!!!

Just a few minutes after my last post today, I was cleaning up some loose cardboard in my
parking lot and found this guy in the bucket.

You would have thought I would have been wearing gloves...I got lucky...THAT would
have scrwd up my week for sure!

ewwwwww........ ...and, yes, possibly a young Hobo. Very fast. Very dead.
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Old 08-19-2012, 03:35 AM   #77
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OMG Mike!!! I about jumped out of my skin when you mentioned a spider stampede!!!!

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Yeah those were the good ole days. LOL

Nice find in the cardboard, "The quick and the dead"
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Old 08-26-2012, 05:19 PM   #78
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Hahaha…guess we aren’t the only arachnophobics around here…

Squarebody Spider infestation!



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Old 08-26-2012, 06:10 PM   #79
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Re: Spiders

I had a huge black widow in my garage window behind the blinds. I flicked it onto the floor with a pencil and hosed him with brake cleaner. He crumpled up like he was dead, then unwrapped after a couple minutes and started to crawl off. Got a couple pics of it before I stomped it.

Got a huge brown spider in a jar in the garage. Will post it up here for you guys.
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Old 08-26-2012, 07:44 PM   #80
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After I read this tread I notice my cat staring at something under the dresser in my bedroom. I get a flashlight and look under there and it's a big spider, I tried to kill it but it got away. We called bug man the next day.
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Old 09-20-2012, 05:39 PM   #81
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Re: Spiders

ichy already
a couple of found in's
we think the dog got bit or stung behind our trailer (where the brown one was)
he came up bitting/lickin his butt,looked to see a welt developing called the vet
they said mark it and watch it ,so i had to carry him around....
he was limping it bothered him so much
it burst/we cleaned it,it healed,even got a scar poor thing
got phone pics but you get the idea lol

webs make cool pics but thats all i wana see of them
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Old 09-20-2012, 08:24 PM   #82
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In the process of organizing the garage, and was finding several ugly spiders and a ton of little cockroach lookin things. 3 cans of fogger overnight and its all over.
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Old 09-21-2012, 09:55 AM   #83
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Oh! I hate spiders!

Around here in the high desert we have a lot of Wolf spiders, Black widows and tarantulas. Luckily, I haven’t found any of these in the house or shop other than a Wolf spider in the shop once. We are now in tarantula migration season so they are often seen in late August through October. They scare the hell out of you when you see them but they are harmless. I read where they live to be quite old, like 20 years, so I don’t kill them…..just lay a pan shovel down and let them crawl on then give them a ride out into the open field next to the shop. Most people had no idea there are tarantulas in Colorado. I grew up in town and had no idea we had these on the outskirts of town until we move out to the boonies.

This one was on our back patio last August.


This one was on the shop window a couple years ago. I had gone into the garage to smoke a cigarette and while lighting it up I looked out the window only to find this big thing staring right at me. I screamed like a little girl as I couldn’t tell if it was inside the shop or outside.


Yet another that was crawling on the house in the fall of 2009


Another in the grass a few years ago
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Old 09-21-2012, 01:31 PM   #84
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Old 09-21-2012, 02:11 PM   #85
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Oh! I hate spiders!

Around here in the high desert we have a lot of Wolf spiders, Black widows and tarantulas. Luckily, I haven’t found any of these in the house or shop other than a Wolf spider in the shop once. We are now in tarantula migration season so they are often seen in late August through October. They scare the hell out of you when you see them but they are harmless. I read where they live to be quite old, like 20 years, so I don’t kill them…..just lay a pan shovel down and let them crawl on then give them a ride out into the open field next to the shop. Most people had no idea there are tarantulas in Colorado. I grew up in town and had no idea we had these on the outskirts of town until we move out to the boonies.

This one was on our back patio last August.


This one was on the shop window a couple years ago. I had gone into the garage to smoke a cigarette and while lighting it up I looked out the window only to find this big thing staring right at me. I screamed like a little girl as I couldn’t tell if it was inside the shop or outside.


Yet another that was crawling on the house in the fall of 2009


Another in the grass a few years ago

Being a dyed-in-the-wool arachnophobiac, this may sound weird but I think
the tarantulas are kinda cool. Worked with a kid a few years back that had
one for a pet and the bugger would climb all over his arm & hand, calm as
could be.


He offered it to me and I should have taken him up on it…might have helped
calm my phobia.



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Old 09-21-2012, 09:31 PM   #86
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we get tarantulas occasionally outside the house to. i leave them alone. they are fun to watch and have never been in house. on the other hand i did snare another huge wolf spider then other day by the couch... wife left the door open and he waltzed right in. he died quickly

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I am having a problem with these this year. The adults are about the size of a silver dollar. Don't know the proper name for them but I call them dead on arrival (of my shoe). I have killed about 30 of them in the last few weeks alone. Several that i have killed had what appeared to be hundreds of babies on their backs. Couldn't kill em quick enough with my foot so found the carb cleaner close by. The shop is 60x200 with 18' ceilings so I am dreading buying enough fogger to do the job .....but its getting to that point. There is also another really skinny long legged spider infestation that I need to get rid of but I can't get them to show up in the pictures.
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Finally got one of the other spiders in a shot that I can see on the camera. It kinda reminds me of a gran daddy long leg but these guys will swell ya up pretty good when they bite.
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Old 10-03-2012, 04:28 PM   #89
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Yours is a creepy spider for sure!

He does look like a daddy-longlegs (harvestman) however yours is probably a real spider.
The daddy-longlegs are shaped a little different and are not spiders at all…having
no fangs, venom nor do they produce silk.






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Old 10-26-2012, 11:36 PM   #90
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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!
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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...

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Old 07-30-2013, 06:58 AM   #92
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Went out to grab some parts off the parts blazer and my short step p/u is parked next to it. I looked over and saw this monster all webbed up. Never saw one like this and he is about as big as a soup can. That blue pc below him is the top bed rail of the stepside.

I left him alone since I figured he could run faster than me.


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Oh hell no.
thats exactly what I was saying as I scrolled down and saw your post lol.

no way no how. I was think ing of getting some land in AZ but if those damn things are running around you can keep your low taxes.
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Old 07-30-2013, 09:23 AM   #95
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We have a lot of black widows around so any metal item that has been setting in the corners (jack stands, wheel ramps, etc) get hit with the little trigger light weed burner before I grab them. Any I see in the open get shot with CRC degreaser.
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Richard2717- we get those here occasionally too. Google "writing spider". They get pretty damn big, and are gnarly looking. But harmless.
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I can't say I have to much of a problem with bugs other than wasps being where they should not be. (In my truck) I really have a problem with mice. When I removed my seat a few years ago and found 5 nests under it. I got a shop vac and vacuumed them up. One ran out of his nest and instantly I targeted him. He was moving well for a little bit but then for about a half second he was unable to go any further then he was sucked up backward into the hose. We have a severe problem with mice. When we first moved in they were always getting in the house being a nuance and all. We set traps and I felt sorry for one as in the middle of the night I woke up to find him dragging the trap by his nether region. I listens to this for hours before I got out of bed and then I found him. Wasps scare me but I can manage with them by working in the winter and spraying the truck regularly witch probably explains why I don't have a big bug problem.
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Hope this helps someone----3 times a year I spray everywhere inside and outside the house with Home Defense MAX it has works well.Spray next to a spider outside and they take off running.
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Finally got one of the other spiders in a shot that I can see on the camera. It kinda reminds me of a gran daddy long leg but these guys will swell ya up pretty good when they bite.

I've seen a few of those in the shop corners this summer and wondered what they were.
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I left him alone since I figured he could run faster than me.
like chev says, those are harmless
i leave them be unless they're in the house or shop

we lived in the mountains of NC for a 16 yrs, we had all sorts of creepy crawly things
like 2 inch wolf spiders that carried their young on their backs
when you stomp on them the babies scatter in an ever increasing circle
it's hard to get them all this way

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