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Venomous spider, noble false widow found feeding on bats in UK attic
NY Post ^ | 2 Mar 2022 | Tom Hussy

Posted on 03/03/2022 11:04:53 AM PST by DUMBGRUNT

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To: Red Badger
These are the bad boys
21 posted on 03/03/2022 12:48:51 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Dang,

My Doc cuts on those purple lines and tries to stitch back to closure.

I’ve had 3 Nanzi face lifts, as it turns out.

My blood pressure goes way up in their pre-op; why?


22 posted on 03/03/2022 12:51:33 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: READINABLUESTATE

Go out at night with a flashlight and a flyswatter.

Hunt those things and swat. They are sitting and waiting on their webs.


23 posted on 03/03/2022 12:53:42 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Similar to the brown recluse only worse. That is one frightening wound.


24 posted on 03/03/2022 12:57:07 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: gitmo

I saw a Tarantula in the yard, one fall. Cool - you have the run of the place.

A few days later I wondered why I hadn’t seen it and checked the Black Widow web in a shed.

There it was, bound up in the Black Widow web.


25 posted on 03/03/2022 12:57:35 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: WVNan

Sounds like a good method. I think every inch of my yard has ants. I put spectracide on the mound then pour cold water until the mound flattens out, and that does destroy that location, but then they pop up nearby somewhere. Next time I will try boiling water LOL


26 posted on 03/03/2022 1:11:46 PM PST by entropy12
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To: Scrambler Bob

A friend has a “bug zapper” in his yard. He pulled the collection tray out so the critters just fall to the ground. On a good night he’ll have over a dozen Tarantulas gathered, waiting for the BBQ.


27 posted on 03/03/2022 1:14:51 PM PST by Do_Tar
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To: entropy12

My method:
1) buy can of Bengal
2) add red straw extender
3) put red straw into ant bed and spray until smoke comes out of ant bed

Bye bye ants


28 posted on 03/03/2022 1:15:26 PM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans ( )
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To: DUMBGRUNT

BURN THE HOUSE!!!


29 posted on 03/03/2022 1:18:59 PM PST by Do_Tar (I wish I was kidding.)
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To: Bob434

You want to hear about incident from 70 years ago which still gives me nightmares? My parents house in India had a water tank with an electric pump to fill the 3rd floor tank. The pump was old and the foot valve leaked so at age 12 or so I would climb up into that dark pump room, sit on a shallow wooden seat and fill the suction pipe with water and then the pump would start pumping water to the 3rd floor tank. One day while doing my daily chore, corner of my eye caught a movement and I figured it was a cockroach or something. I stood up and saw it was a black scorpion! I dived out of there and called our house boy servant. He killed the scorpion with a stick, and the baby scorpions on mama scorpion’s back.

Soon all the people from house gathered to see the dead scorpion. Our cook lady said to me, you were so lucky it did not sting you, because a scorpion that size would cause horrible pain and could even be fatal. So here I was sitting on a shallow wooden seat for several minutes, and the mama scorpion was parked right under me!


30 posted on 03/03/2022 1:27:37 PM PST by entropy12
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To: blabs

“Forget Black Widows, the brown recluse will seriously screw your day. Lucky for us, we have both in North Carolina, everywhere.”

They’re everywhere in Tennessee. I used to be a plumber and had to crawl under houses with no basement. That was before I learned about the Brown Recluse.


31 posted on 03/03/2022 1:28:50 PM PST by dljordan
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

What is “Bengal”?


32 posted on 03/03/2022 1:41:18 PM PST by entropy12
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To: entropy12

https://www.bengal.com/products/roaches

Very good at killing anything that it hits


33 posted on 03/03/2022 1:42:41 PM PST by stuck_in_new_orleans ( )
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Any live spider I see. I try to make it a dead one. I have seen where people had been bitten by what they said were Brown Recluses.
34 posted on 03/03/2022 1:45:19 PM PST by sport
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

Thank you. I will have to try it.


35 posted on 03/03/2022 1:46:48 PM PST by entropy12
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To: entropy12

Insect spray.


36 posted on 03/03/2022 1:54:15 PM PST by sport
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

Best thing to come out of Louisiana since Joe Burrow


37 posted on 03/03/2022 2:05:46 PM PST by panzerkamphwageneinz (0 )
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To: entropy12

uggh- that would give me nightmares-


38 posted on 03/03/2022 9:41:01 PM PST by Bob434
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To: octex
The brownish Gray Fishing Spider is the size of a smallish tarantula- the legs are long, the body isn't all that big though


39 posted on 03/03/2022 9:43:45 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Long Jon No Silver

is that the bird eatign spider>?


40 posted on 03/03/2022 9:44:40 PM PST by Bob434
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