4/8/2008 12:57:53 PM

ive only seen one of them things in my life...and that was on a camping trip years ago

4/8/2008 12:59:39 PM

ive seen at least one every summer for the past 5 or so years


i dont go out looking for them either

4/8/2008 1:02:02 PM

i was helping someone move and there was one under an old couch. scared me.

4/8/2008 1:05:01 PM

i thought this thread would be about canadian goose shit everywhere

4/8/2008 1:05:39 PM

apparently they dont kill you but its the most painful bite you can experience because of the way it fucks with your nerves

4/8/2008 1:06:17 PM

Found one underneath a christmas tree stand that was in the front yard.....i killed it dead

4/8/2008 1:08:01 PM

nice work

4/8/2008 1:09:35 PM

lets play a game?

guess what the red X is.

or maybe its the red X that hides at camping sites and leaves painful bites.

4/8/2008 1:09:59 PM

don't recall ever seeing one

4/8/2008 1:10:55 PM

there's actually a small market for those girls. i may have to start going out to "help" when people ask me to save them from the spiders.

4/8/2008 1:11:36 PM

brown recluse spiders scare me more

never stumbled upon one of those

4/8/2008 1:17:28 PM

i killed 5 of these motherfuckers sunday

4/8/2008 1:19:20 PM

That just gave me the chills!

I got a random spider bit about a month ago and freaked out trying to figure out what bit me. No fun

4/8/2008 1:20:10 PM

holy shit where did you find 5


like were they all chillin under a rock hittin a blunt or somethin?

4/8/2008 1:21:05 PM

LOL....damn, killed em and took their L..ruthless

[Edited on April 8, 2008 at 1:25 PM. Reason : d]

4/8/2008 1:25:10 PM

they were behind my homegirls stove
she found some old cookie sheets pushed back behind the lower drawer and pulled it out and found the female....

she then freaked out and woke me up and made me come over w/ spray. we spayed the shit out of the underside of the oven and then pulled it out from the wall

then 3 small baby black widows came out and we killed them

found the big ole male black in one of the cookie sheets with 3 egg sacks

4/8/2008 1:27:14 PM

thats fucking scary to me

4/8/2008 1:28:03 PM

me too.
i put on my leather work gloves and had her tape my sweat shirt over the gloves while i was under her stove

i fucking hate spiders

4/8/2008 1:30:09 PM

I couldn't finish reading what gunzz just typed without feeling as if I was gonna faint! I wouldn't be mad if you screamed like a bitch when you saw all those nasty spiders!!

BLEH!

4/8/2008 1:30:25 PM

haha....yeah....the last one i killed was with a claw hammer....i'm thinkin the next one ill kill with some wd40 and a flame

4/8/2008 1:32:05 PM

i mean snakes are understandable

spider lovers dont make sense

4/8/2008 1:32:23 PM

yes they do!! i don't LOVE spiders at all. but i don't kill them either unless they are inside, but even then i try to take them outside. they eat yucky bugs like mosquitos and other pests. how do you see black widows so often anyway are you like out in the woods climbing trees a lot? thats the only place i've ever seen one.

4/8/2008 2:14:06 PM

no i mean i understand spiders are vital in the food chain for sure

but to try and keep one as a pet

fuck that

4/8/2008 2:15:21 PM

I'm sure a few will fall out of my dirt bike this summer

4/8/2008 2:16:37 PM

oh yea ewww. that would just make me itchy. (pet bugs)

4/8/2008 2:16:48 PM

I've never even heard of a Black Widow living up in trees

I thought they always stayed on the ground, in dark, moist areas [no sexual reference]

4/8/2008 2:17:18 PM

146 and counting

4/8/2008 2:18:11 PM

hahaha i think they do. but i saw one in a tree when i was little but it was living in a dark moist area in the tree. like a spot in the tree where leaves and stuff had collected. yea. i used to climb trees A LOT when i was little.

4/8/2008 2:18:29 PM

yeah black widows only attack when disturbed. until now ive always worked on golf courses, and when id run irrigation programs id find them in the boxes all the time. never in trees, but in places that are dark and generally untouched (no homo)

[Edited on April 8, 2008 at 2:20 PM. Reason : ^makes sense]

4/8/2008 2:19:45 PM

Quote :

"found the big ole male black in one of the cookie sheets with 3 egg sacks"

hmm...I thought the male was really tiny and the female kills him after he gives her the business.

4/8/2008 2:23:26 PM

these bastards are evil

4/8/2008 2:27:05 PM

what is that a brown recluse? i only know like two brands of spiders

4/8/2008 2:27:54 PM

the female killing the male actually doesnt happen, apparently thats an "old wives tale"

4/8/2008 2:28:24 PM

Quote :

" The venom of the black widow spider is 15 times as toxic as the venom of the prairie rattlesnake."

luckily they're nice when they bite.

Quote :

" Adult male Black Widows wander in search of females but do not feed or bite.Black Widow Spider Females may occasionally kill and eat a male after mating but this is more the exception than the rule. Adult males are harmless to humans, about half the female's size, with smaller bodies, and longer legs and usually have yellow and red bands and spots over the back as do the immature stages. "

hmm...tell that to people who might have heart attacks just seeing one

[Edited on April 8, 2008 at 2:36 PM. Reason : ]

4/8/2008 2:32:43 PM

i caught one of these last week... it was in my HOUSE. her body is the size of my middle fingernail, and i think she's big. yes, it's scary as crap, but i think it's really cool. i've got her in a jar, and she's built a web. next i'm going to try and catch a fly or something to put in there.

4/8/2008 2:40:29 PM

Quote :

"hmm...I thought the male was really tiny and the female kills him after he gives her the business"

he wasnt tiny and he wasnt as big as the female but he was big enough.

4/8/2008 3:16:37 PM

Quote :

" BRANDS OF SPIDERS"

4/8/2008 3:28:23 PM

my dad found one on the back porch

too bad my gallery's not all the way up or I'd post he pic

4/8/2008 3:32:02 PM

humans>bugs

4/8/2008 3:33:09 PM

^
spiders aren't bugs

and they make decent pets -- a friend of mine has one

Quote :

"i've got her in a jar, and she's built a web. next i'm going to try and catch a fly or something to put in there."

one time I had a black widow from my yard in a perforated jar for a few weeks

in all, I fed it about a dozen flies, and a half dozen of those little brass beetles

I would let it out to climb on my arm (they're not usually aggressive if not threatened)


I'd also scoop up grasshoppers from my backyard to feed the orb spiders by my compost pen


I don't kill spiders

4/8/2008 4:34:45 PM

Quote :

"I would let it out to climb on my arm"

You, sir, are braver than I.

4/8/2008 4:36:07 PM

4/8/2008 4:39:14 PM

bugs = family insecta

spiders ticks and mites = arachnida

i think thats what i learned in entomology

4/8/2008 8:32:55 PM