Posted on 07/22/2011 1:08:15 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. -- A man from Erie, Colo. died after getting bitten by a black widow spider. Health experts say it's a rare for someone to die from black widow bites.
Jeff Seale, 40, noticed 19 bites on his foot two weeks before he died. His sister says he worked at a horse stable, and she wonders if that's where her brother might've encountered the spider...
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Just wanted to respond to your post #42 because I’m a spider lover too.
Wish I could catch a gigantic wolf spider, but I can’t get into the pasture (and couldn’t bend over if I did).
I think those things are smarter than some people I know.
They took the extra eyes off! Jumping spiders are supposed to have four pairs of eyes. They are very attentive when you wave “Hello” to them.
I wouldn’t doubt it. :-)
You are right. I didn’t notice that at first.
He was already like that when I found him!!
Honest!
/hee hee hee....*burp*
...and why should I believe you?
...my aren’t you delicious...and I hope he was...
Vampires!
Burglars?
Up here in the northern reaches of California, we have scores of lizards to eat the spiders. I love my lizards—frogs too abound in the house, in the shower sometimes, in the hot water heater room and here and there. Once in a while a lizard will come roaming into the house. They get scooted back out to their yard.
Unless it’s something roving like a Wolf Spider, they’re all welcome in my home.
The only reason I tote the Wolfs out is so the dogs won’t see them running around and harm them.
The big black female jumping spider on my kitchen window sill always looked forward to the swatted flies I gave her when there weren’t any for her to catch on her own.
She was there for about 4-5 years.
I reckon that’s a good lifespan for a spider.
The funniest ones are the “fishing spiders”.
For one thing, why they’re in the house if they’re supposed to be out fishing is beyond me.
The second, really funny thing is their “self defense camouflage” method...they flatten out into a perfect “X”.
What purpose that serves is a mystery.
Do their natural predators say “Oh look supper! Wait...never mind. It’s just a prohibited zone marker”.
Weird.
Lol. Don’t think they can catch those.... :-)
Many or most insecticides don’t affect spiders. Bengal does.
I think there may be a mud dauber nest in my relatives house above the door. I’m going to have to google what they look like because it may be a wasp nest.
We live in Menifee, near to Wildomar. Your eradication efforts then seem to have chased them northeast to us and they’ve finally arrived this year. Even found a couple in the house. Thanks a lot!
Be careful with those critter’s.
Would rather be concerned about bears than poisonous spiders or snakes...
(we really liked socal’s avocados and citrus)
Wolf spiders are OK also. We have a lot of them, and they are quite beautiful, when you really look at them.
Here's one carrying her babies...
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