I will take my chances with the bats!
A coworker had a BW bite, took a year or so to heal, and left a deep scar.
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Posted on 03/03/2022 11:04:53 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT
A horrifying spider has been found chowing down on bats in the UK.
The eight-legged venomous menace known as the noble false widow was found sucking the guts out of a baby bat.
Over a mortifying two days, bats living in Ben’s attic were found entangled in the spider’s web below the entrance to their roost.
A second, much larger adult bat, was also captured and trapped in the web but it was still alive.
Fortunately, the lucky bat was rescued and released.
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I will take my chances with the bats!
A coworker had a BW bite, took a year or so to heal, and left a deep scar.
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There are few things I am afraid of, and Black Widows are one of them....................
Forget Black Widows, the brown recluse will seriously screw your day. Lucky for us, we have both in North Carolina, everywhere.
TMI - bugs will be bugs 🤪
In Florida, so far, only bugs which have bitten me are fire ants. They are all over my yard, and when I moved here, I was not aware of them. Now I wont work in yard without long boots and gloves. Their bites are itchy for couple of days, then day 3 through 7, blisters form and itch even more.
I pop them as soon as I see them and apply hydrogen peroxide 3 or 4 times every day and then they heal in a couple of days. Antibiotic ointment does not work. peroxide works great.
Everybody sing!
“It’s the circle of life....”
My mind goes directly to that one cut of the “Welcome to My Nightmare” album. Cue Vincent Price...
We had brown recluse in our 50 year old house. We had metal vertical blinds and you could hear the damn things drop on the window base as they fell. When we moved to a new home, we found dried out recluses stuck to the tape on the boxes.
We are not as bad as Australia their spiders kill you. But, black widows are a bitch. Killed a few last year. People kill the Black Dauber mud wasps because they are afraid of wasps. The Mud Wasp rarely stings and eats spiders. Lots of spiders. I leave them be especially in my deer stand. More mud wasps fewer spiders.
This is why I live in the tundra, more or less.
“There are few things I am afraid of, and Black Widows are one of them....................”
As a child I loved going to my Uncle’s house in South Dakota because he had Black Widows in the basement we could play with and catch in a jar.
I lived in Miami for 10 yrs and had to learn how to deal with fire aunts. Best remedy I found was finding their nests and poured 3 or 4 gallons of scalding boiling hot water right on top of the nest. It proved a determent.
it is said that you can only get the anti-venom once in your lifetime to calm the intense all over body cramping and extreme pain caused by the black widow- They try to see if you can get through it without anti-venom i guess but many folks cave and get it because the pain is too bad to endure-
we had Brown Grey Fishing Spiders which i guess look similar to Brown Recluse- they are huge, and one actually woke me up one night when it ran across some papers in my room- i thought it was a mouse- Nope- A huge spider- carrying it’s brood in a sack. Had the dang thing crawled on my face, it’d have looked like the Alien Movie creature-
I get it: Arachnophobia thread.
But this is NOT a Black Widow.
Yikes
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When I was a kid I used to keep large jugs with Black Wisows, Tarantulas and Scorpions.
Mom disapproved.
The brown recluse in TX is about the size of a dime.
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