Black Widows EVERYWHERE!! How do I get rid of them?

I just think it is funny that some folks are afraid of something they outweigh by 1 million percent.

That said, Sharks freak me the fuck out. easy solution, though...I keeps my white ass out the water.

 

On that note they say that the average person swallows 8 spiders a year...

I also kinda chuckle at the image that comes to mind of some 250 lb gruff greas monkey tattood dude jumping around screaming like a little girl...

 

A spider gets on me, and little girls will wish they could scream like me. I am scared shitless of any spiders and not afraid to admit it.

 

Next time she slaps you, say, "Hey! I'm a sensitive guy! I ride a Yamaha!

 

nope, no spiders, not doing it...
call me a sissylala but, them things are wrong.

 

So I go to move the 35 I just sold to a nice gentleman in MN. And that so damned nice Marcy is coming to pick it up so I figured I better clean it up a little and check it for extra residients just in case.

Well Shoot Damn Howdy! Here you go this one is a little bigger than the one last night.

I know Marcy will appeciate it being out of the car.

But I kind of feel I am cheating the new owner. Oh I did catch it alive and it is in a ziploc. Maybe I'll just tape it to the dash.

 

Recently I had an uncle who got bit on the hand by a larger black widow and became deathly ill and laid up in the hospital. He said he was flashing back to the 70's it felt like he was on an acid trip. Looking back he thought it was pretty cool!

 

Hey!
I only weigh 210.

 

so I would tarp it heavy and bombs away my friend. My arm swelled so much that the tips of my fingers were as thick as my forearm very very gross - you can imagine the details and no it does not get you sympathy sex. As well my forearm had a hole that went from the skin to the bone a quarter inch wide.

 

haha people scared of bugs and spiders and snakes crack me, im just no afraid of them.

but on a lighter note i killed two black widows and a sun spider at the shop today, anybody in az knows what a sunspider is. pretty ugly. and im pretty sure the sun spider and black widow got in a fight cause one of the black widows was laying on its back twitching.

 

We're the Black Widows. Feared throughout the land.

 

Sun spiders are just plain freaky looking. I think they are a cousin of the Camel Spider.

 

Sun Spiders, Wind Scorpions, etc will chase you. They don't care if you are 1 million times their size! Smack one with a broom and if you don't pop it, it will be coming after you.

I like to catch a few and put them in a jar together. you have a bug death match going on.

 

see, now that I can respect. tiny, angry critters who think of You as lunch for years to come. none of this lurking in a dark spot crap. If they want a fight, Then I will whistle taps as I stomp thier guts out.

 

I just looked up sunspiders, if one of those got on me I would probably break my own neck just to get it over with.

 

You guys are a bunch of ninnies. Just step on the damn things; that's what I do. And by the way, the Daddy Long Legs is not more venomous than the Black Widow; I will just Wikipedia it.

 

Check these buggers out..

 

It's not true. Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia, anyone can add or edit an entry. You can put anything you want on there.

Here is an excerpt from The University at Riverside's Entomology site:
DADDY-LONGLEGS ARE ONE OF THE MOST POISONOUS SPIDERS BUT THEIR FANGS ARE TOO SHORT TO BITE HUMANS

This tale has been lurking around for years. I have heard it repeatedly in the United States and even heard a schoolteacher misinforming her class at a museum in Brisbane, Australia.

Daddy-longlegs spiders (Pholcidae) - Here, the myth is incorrect at least in making claims that have no basis in known facts. There is no reference to any pholcid spider biting a human and causing any detrimental reaction. If these spiders were indeed deadly poisonous but couldn't bite humans, then the only way we would know that they are poisonous is by milking them and injecting the venom into humans.

You can go here to read the rest:

http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html

 

Ok, so through the Wikipedia web site, I found that the Pholcidae or Daddy Long Legs spider is not more venomous than the Black Widow. It is just generally assumed so, because the Pholcidae Spider attacks and feeds on other species of spiders; particularly the Black Widow.

I am one who always thought these spiders were more venomous. But, I got schooled.

 

Dress up as their dead husbands!

 

I'm all about being careful and responsible, but what the fuck is this fear of spider thing? Yeah, anything that looks like a horror movie creature will give ya that rise in the neck feeling but your fuckin 1000 times bigger than the lil bitches. I did read somewhere that bees/hornets and bears are the only creatures on the planet that can sense fear. Something about pheromones realeased? I don't recall. I wonder if the lil arachnids can sense it somewhat too?

 

Bees/Hornets and bears are the only things that can smell fear?


I'm Married, so I KNOW Other species can smell fear. and I know my wife can smell it.

 

I am going to apply for an agriculture tax deduction tomorrow. I have a damned ranch going on here. Just got 5 more tonight. All live. That makes 7 live ones in 24 hours. Shit I am going to be rich!

Anyone want to buy some Black Widows? I suppose I should probably start a whats it worth thread. I have no idea what a live black widow goes for. Ohh the possibilities.

 

my fear of them comes from seeing firsthand the aftermath of some of the bites, atrophied flesh around a bite is not a pretty sight. With other spiders, I just squash em.

 

Seems to me the thing to do would be to encase them in clear casting poly, carve and polish the solid block into a knob, and start mounting them on your grille.

Roger

 

You call this guy

 

When I lived in Glendale,Az the house was good but the shop was overrun with black widows. no one had been in the shop for about six months and they had taken over every muffler, a-arm corner, chair leg, tool chest, and angular area. It looked like a bad horror movie.
I had an aluminum arrow that I would sweep away open webs with to see if they were getting rebuilt. After a few days I realized I had to get creative or nuke the joint from orbit. I bought 36 of the nastiest bug bombs on the market, taped every crack closed and fired them off. The fog viewed throught the window was incredible.
After action report, I kept sweeping webs with the same arrow shaft and it was quite covered with web. I slid it off the shaft and rolled the webbing tight to about 20 inches long. I wrapped it arond both hands and tried to break that shit....no can do! Two people pulling couldn't break it. That stuff in a roll is damn tough!!
They over the top gassing killed everything in the shop. No more prey, no more spiders. I also had a bug light put in to kill anything that might come around to attract them.
Got nailed by a scorpion while I was there and lost feeling in my right hand for several days.
As an aside, The diotamaceous earth clogs their little gills and lungs, suffocationg them, as most of the nasty stuff breathes through its skin to rudmentary bottom lungs or uses gills similar to fish also located on the bottoms of the body. The DE sticks to the moisture and being finely crushed lime and fossil shells, plugs em up and they die.