• There has been a recent cluster of spammers accessing BARFer accounts and posting spam. To safeguard your account, please consider changing your password. It would be even better to take the additional step of enabling 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) on your BARF account. Read more here.

Spider Species? Massive sucker!

Butch said:
Black Widows freak me out. They are toxic.
Click to expand...

We have them all around, I'm used to them but they still "bug" me.
We were camping at Carnegie a few years back and my daughter was doing dishes at the shared water spigot thing by the showers. She came back to the campsite with a stack of mostly dirty dishes and the look of pure juvenile horror on her face. I wish I had taken a picture of it, the biggest black widow I have ever seen...about 3 inches where she had been resting her hand.
 
Last edited:
In the garage working on my mini bike and another Wolfy Wolf came scurrying into the garage and I aware it jumped over some extension cords. Fast little dude but I got it.

That’s 2 in under 24 hours. That’s an infestation!!!!
 
The ones I've seen around are quite large. Basically tarantula, only slightly smaller. They are hard to catch, as they are quite fast. Had two in the house, a few weeks apart. Caught them, and put them outside to do their thing. The only way they got caught was when they got all pissy and went into that defensive raised front legs posture, and display their fangs. That allowed us to scoop them into a plastic container, after them zipping away countless times. Saw one more outdoors once, then never again. Didn't even know wolf spiders existed before all that.

The one pictured in the first post must be young or another variant, as it looks tiny comapred to the ones I encountered.
 
Last edited:
Eldritch said:
They are friends. They only want kisses.
Click to expand...

I've long held a childhood fear of Black Widows. Chalk that up to one building a web directly over my pillow while I slept.

But goodness, what gorgeous creatures. That fear has evolved into a distanced respect. If I were to see them in my house now I would escort them out in an airtight container. But I don't think they live here
 
Holeshot said:
Those are the one spider that dies on sight. We've got them all over the place in Lake county...and they just LOVE dark cool places you stick your hands where you can't see shit, like sprinkler valves.
Click to expand...
Speaking of black widows I had an interesting experience a few years ago.

I store our lawn tractor down in the shop and used to just put my straw hat on the seat. Put the hat on and went to mow the place and after about an hour took a break. I took my straw hat off and placed it open side up for the sweat to dry and there was a black widow in a small web that stayed right there through the one hour mowing stint. I don't do that anymore (hat is always open end up).

Dan
 
TylerW said:
I've long held a childhood fear of Black Widows. Chalk that up to one building a web directly over my pillow while I slept.

But goodness, what gorgeous creatures. That fear has evolved into a distanced respect. If I were to see them in my house now I would escort them out in an airtight container. But I don't think they live here
Click to expand...

That's unusual. Widows typically build their webs near ground level, it dark little nooks and crannies. I usually find them in garage corners, below the house's mud sill, under exterior door frames.
 
TylerW said:
I've long held a childhood fear of Black Widows. Chalk that up to one building a web directly over my pillow while I slept.

But goodness, what gorgeous creatures. That fear has evolved into a distanced respect. If I were to see them in my house now I would escort them out in an airtight container. But I don't think they live here
Click to expand...

Right on, for me I give spiders the Claudia rule. Never in the house. I try not to squish them in the house and put them outside, but if dude shows up in the shower when I am naked, he gets the squish.
 
bergmen said:
Speaking of black widows I had an interesting experience a few years ago.

I store our lawn tractor down in the shop and used to just put my straw hat on the seat. Put the hat on and went to mow the place and after about an hour took a break. I took my straw hat off and placed it open side up for the sweat to dry and there was a black widow in a small web that stayed right there through the one hour mowing stint. I don't do that anymore (hat is always open end up).

Dan
Click to expand...

Gawd! I'm sure the widow was content hiding...and smelling your head!
 
bergmen said:
Speaking of black widows I had an interesting experience a few years ago.

I store our lawn tractor down in the shop and used to just put my straw hat on the seat. Put the hat on and went to mow the place and after about an hour took a break. I took my straw hat off and placed it open side up for the sweat to dry and there was a black widow in a small web that stayed right there through the one hour mowing stint. I don't do that anymore (hat is always open end up).

Dan
Click to expand...

Once while riding, I felt something BIG crawling across my face. I pulled over quickly and shoved my gloved hand between my face and full face helmet and pressed it to death against my face. Hit start button and took off. Later when I stopped I discovered it was some big spider thing.
 
...and it discovered Poseidon!
 
in case the following leaves any doubt, i love spiders. they are amazing creatures. that said, it amuses me (and also impresses me) that they strike such terror and intimidation inproportionate to their size. gotta love that. i leave most alone to go about their business (even the widows), but when they need to be relocated, i do it mostly by hand (crawl on - i’ll keep you safe). never once been bitten.

mercy and allowables

She asked me to kill the spider
Instead, I got the most
peaceful weapons I can find

I take a cup and a napkin.
I catch the spider, put it outside
and allow it to walk away

If I am ever caught in the wrong place
at the wrong place, just being alive
and not bothering anyone,

I hope I am greeted
with the same kind
of mercy.

- Rudy Franisco
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top