Arachnid, Arachn'dont!!

[Miss Lydia]

I know how painful a spider bite can be I got one on the finger by a brown recluse the pain was awful.

 

[quackiemama]

Actually, though - black widows don't really jump. For that, you want a tarantula. Or this guy, who can REALLY jump around!

This made me giggle. Love it!

 

[quackiemama]

I know how painful a spider bite can be I got one the finger by a brown recluse the pain was awful.

I had a brown recluse bite on my leg once. Horrible!

 

[Miss Lydia]

Actually, though - black widows don't really jump. For that, you want a tarantula. Or this guy, who can REALLY jump around!

Oh my gosh now we’ll all have nightmares. Put hey they got rhythm

 

[Miss Lydia]

I had a brown recluse bite on my leg once. Horrible!

Did you have to have shots In The tush? I had to go 2x. Pain was horrible.

 

[Duckworth]

I grew up in the desert and black widows were common. A friend of my parents was bitten on the leg, and like Shannon said, his skin rotted and left a very large hole and he had symptoms of having been poisoned periodically for years. These are not minor toxins and the spiders are very quick. A typical scorpion sting is far less damaging.

I’ve killed countless black widows, usually with the pointy end of a straw broom before I bash the remains on the end of the broom with a heavy object. They are not to be trifled with and I simply can’t take a live-and-let-live approach with such a dangerous creature in close proximity to my animals, my children, or myself. It’s not prudent. They like dark rarely disturbed areas, like storage rooms, sheds, garages, outdoor cabinets, and other places where they can put up a ratty looking web and wait for prey.

One of the nicest things about moving to Nebraska is that I don’t have to turn over and inspect every single thing I touch before picking it up.

 

[GoatDragonFarms]

The spider vacuum! Oh my gosh, I had totally forgotten about that!
We have major stink bugs around here in NC, and my mother in law has one of those. Loves it to pieces.

Black widow bites are no joke, seek medical attention if she gets you. Broom handle is another good idea, props to the response!

 

[CindyinSD]

I had a patient once (as a hospital nurse) who had lost his leg to a brown recluse bite. A little bitty bite from a little bitty drab, commonplace-looking spider. Horrifying. Exterminating spiders just because they’re spiders is a good way to get more wasps, hornets, etc. but killing dangerously toxic spiders by whatever means necessary is the only way to go.

 

[Enigmius]

I had a patient once (as a hospital nurse) who had lost his leg to a brown recluse bite. A little bitty bite from a little bitty drab, commonplace-looking spider. Horrifying. Exterminating spiders just because they’re spiders is a good way to get more wasps, hornets, etc. but killing dangerously toxic spiders by whatever means necessary is the only way to go.

OMG. Thats it.. They will just have to die..

 

[Peepsi]

Actually, though - black widows don't really jump. For that, you want a tarantula. Or this guy, who can REALLY jump around!

Those peacock jumping spider videos always have me howling with laughter. Jumping spiders are one spider I don't mind too much, because they're small, docile, and very very intelligent (for a spider).