The Only Good Spider...

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Okay, I hate spiders... especially brown ones, black ones, large ones, ....well, you get the idea. I was about to sit down to sew some holsters, when I happened to notice this little guy crouched by the clamp holding down my Boss.

[dirtclod]

Spiders don't bother me as long as i can see them. But i got bit by one this fall that i didn't see. I was lucky i guess and it didn't get a good bite but around where i was bit the skin got really hard then puffed up and come off. There was a bump under the skin for a few weeks afterwards. I know a couple of people that were biten and they had all kinds of problems with the bite healing up. Be careful when you see one and shake your shoes and clothes out espically if haven't wore them in a while.

[TwinOaks]

I generally don't kill them offhand, but I have on occasion done the 'spider dance' and screamed like a little girl when one shows up in an unexpected place......like the collar of my housecoat.

[Lobo]

I got nailed by a brown recluse spider during 4th of July weekend this year. Not pleasant at all.

I killed a couple of rattlesnakes last year, one of which had gotten his fangs stuck in my trousers. Not pleasant at all.

I can do without the creepy-crawly things.

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I hear ya' Lobo - that spider I killed was brown, and when I approached him he got reclusive. That's close enough to a brown recluse for me! I have 3 young kids in the house - all under 7 years old. I ran across a copperhead while I was mowing - right where my kids walk through the yard to get from the front of the house to the back.

[cem]

Spiders don't bother me apart from our darn red backs which get into out letterbox all the time we don't usually get them until January but they are out early this year squished a big fat one the other day. Snakes on the other give me the heeby jeebys especially the big fat ones and I hate looking at the skins in the leather supply catalogues. Not likely to see one of those where I live but if I did I reckon I'd be up for the standing high jump record because I'd be on my 6'5 partners shoulders.

[rickmoo]

MAn, that spider i so cute... LOL! i generally don't like them either. all spiders carry venom,but some not deadly. the brown recluse, black and brown widow spider are

dangerous. as well as the hobo spider. recluses and widows freak me out more than poisonous snakes. check out www.brownrecluse.com ... they have a recluse first aid kit guaranteed to work . lots of testimonials to this . i have one, but haven't needed it. interesting web site.

[rickmoo]

OK, the site i listed isn't the one. it is www.brown-recluse.com i had left out the dash for the site. lots of info on several sites.

[Spinner]

Here are a couple of pics for you spider lovers of one I found on my front porch about a month ago.

Pics showing him after I trapped him and then later relocated him to a new area. I try not to kill spiders if I can help it. This is a California Trapdoor Spider, not poisonous but definitely on the larger side of crawlies I have found in my yard.

[Art]

Nice spider, I would try leaving his butt alone. We used to have a small copperhead problem, then we got Barney, a fairly good sized black racer. Barney bit Paul once because Paul stepped on him, other than that he lives in the basement and patrols the property, we have no more copperheads or any other snakes for that matter, Barny said they were very tasty.

Art

Here are a couple of pics for you spider lovers of one I found on my front porch about a month ago.

Pics showing him after I trapped him and then later relocated him to a new area. I try not to kill spiders if I can help it. This is a California Trapdoor Spider, not poisonous but definitely on the larger side of crawlies I have found in my yard.