Spider Eyes!

[Ace_king_brahma]

I hate little piders...don't understand why. I don't mind wolf spiders or jumpers or the little black tarantula looking spiders with the white spots on their back. But tarantulas themselves! I love them. I had a wild one and kept her as a pet.

 

[countryatheart]

I have seen the spider eyes with a flashlight at night too! The first time I pointed it out to my son, he was barefoot (about 5 yrs old). I had to carry him back to the house! I don't want a spider on me, but I appreciate them! Be careful in compost piles/bins. I have found lots of scorpions in mine (which means it is not "cooking" enough. I was bitten twice one spring by scorpions. They crawled onto me in my bed! It really creeped out my husband. He is more bothered by spiders and scorpions than I am.

 

[d.k]

* wolfie moms carry their hundreds of offspring on their backs-- They are pretty harmless to people, but they still freak me out when you disturb the mom and all those bitty babies go running EVERYWHERE-- and the females get 5 inches HUGE (legs, folks!!!) or used to BEFORE the geckos got here. . . P.S. Milton, you ain't seen nothing, yet-- Saw my first and hopefully ONLY sugarcane bug at a gas station one night a couple years ago!! MONSTERS ARE REAL!

 

[Zookeeper9000]

I have wolf spiders here and they will bite and you can get pretty sick from it. They live in a big old maple tree by the corner of my house and are always droping down and getting in the house (come in thru the bath fan vent). My son is deathly afraid of spiders, these are huge spiders. If they stay out side they live, if they come into the house that is different it is then a war zone and I win it every time. I have one shoe in every room just for this purpose. I only have the problem in the summer, winters here ya don't see many spiders.

 

[d.k]

* I use wintergreen alcohol in a spray bottle-- works GREAT for palmettos, spiders-- but, NOT FLIES, oddly enough!

 

[texaschickmama]

We have black widows here, bad. I just killed the biggest one I have ever seen the other day. They are also in the chicken "storage room".

SpottedCrow, that spider is terrifying. Way too big for me to look at. We do have tarantulas here. My DH caught one for my son to study, we put it in an aquarium and got all the nessecities for it. We only kept it a month, then released it in the same spot we had found it. We did go "tarantula hunting" and found 2 more on the roads, I guess they migrate during that week. Very cool to see.

 

[SpottedCrow]

Scorpions creep me out and I had the joy of taking care of them at work...shiver
Centipedes too...all them legs...
Millipedes aren't bad and Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches are neat.

 

[d.k]

* you can keep the hissers AWAY, PLEASE!-- we have all the cockroachs we need with the 3" palmetto bugs that are native here. . . .They freak me out worse than the spiders do.

 

[Miltonchix]

d.k :

* I use wintergreen alcohol in a spray bottle-- works GREAT for palmettos, spiders-- but, NOT FLIES, oddly enough!

Wintergreen alcohol? How much do you drink before sthe spiders "go away"?

Do they go away, or is it you just don't care anymore?

I sold some lumber I had stacked in my yard a couple days ago. The guy that bought it was loading, being EXTRA careful 'cause I told him about my Black Widow problem. His poor wife stayed about 10 feet back nervously watching. When he got to the last row (just above ground level) and flipped over the last board there was the biggest spider I've seen. EVER!! He resembled a Brown recluse (definitely NOT though) on steroids. Legs spread was about 6inches. Abdomen was as big or bigger than a tarantula. He was going to smash him but I wouldn't let him. He, as in the spider, probably eats his own weight in bugs a day. Guys wife was very brave. Only let out one little squeal and stuffed her fist in her mouth.​

 

[chcknrs]

Quote:
Wintergreen alcohol? How much do you drink before sthe spiders "go away"?

Do they go away, or is it you just don't care anymore?

I sold some lumber I had stacked in my yard a couple days ago. The guy that bought it was loading, being EXTRA careful 'cause I told him about my Black Widow problem. His poor wife stayed about 10 feet back nervously watching. When he got to the last row (just above ground level) and flipped over the last board there was the biggest spider I've seen. EVER!! He resembled a Brown recluse (definitely NOT though) on steroids. Legs spread was about 6inches. Abdomen was as big or bigger than a tarantula. He was going to smash him but I wouldn't let him. He, as in the spider, probably eats his own weight in bugs a day. Guys wife was very brave. Only let out one little squeal and stuffed her fist in her mouth.

That whole thing was so funny I had to chuckle. Would've
LMAO but I am just too tired. But thanks for putting a smile back on my face!