Posted on 10/15/2022 3:41:23 PM PDT by libh8er
TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Things are already getting spooky this October. The word is going around that spiders are invading the Tucson area.
Many of you have shared on social media that you’ve recently started seeing more spiders.
Just around Matt Dunkel’s home he’s found five spiders. Around his Oro Valley neighborhood, he’s found three.
“It’s been crazy! It’s been awesome! There’s been spiders all over the place,” he said.
He's been seeing them pop up over the past few weeks.
“Now we’ve just been seeing them everywhere so it’s been really kind of neat to see all the little friends just kind of hanging out in all the little different hotspots of the neighborhood,” said Dunkel.
He hasn’t got rid of the spiders for many reasons.
Things are already getting spooky this October. The word is going around that spiders are invading the Tucson area.
Spiders in Tucson By: Reyna PreciadoPosted at 5:32 PM, Oct 13, 2022 and last updated 5:32 PM, Oct 13, 2022 TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Things are already getting spooky this October. The word is going around that spiders are invading the Tucson area.
Many of you have shared on social media that you’ve recently started seeing more spiders.
Just around Matt Dunkel’s home he’s found five spiders. Around his Oro Valley neighborhood, he’s found three.
“It’s been crazy! It’s been awesome! There’s been spiders all over the place,” he said.
He's been seeing them pop up over the past few weeks.
“Now we’ve just been seeing them everywhere so it’s been really kind of neat to see all the little friends just kind of hanging out in all the little different hotspots of the neighborhood,” said Dunkel.
He hasn’t got rid of the spiders for many reasons.
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“They’re doing a job, they’re taking care of all the little bugs that can bother us and get icky. And what’s been cool is I’ve been able to take not only our daughter, but our son, who’s almost going to be five, and show him all the little cool things about how they build this web,” he said.
Dunkel has seen some black widows, but for the most part he’s seen orb weavers.
These spiders are the most common here around Tucson. Isaiah Vague with Arizona Pest Control said most like to build their webs around plants.
“The reason you’re going to see it that way is because they like to catch flying insects that aren’t going to be aware of their web as they’re passing through,” said Vague.
He’s seen an increase in spiders around Tucson.
“Some of the different storm systems that we’ve had has actually caused an increase in the population of things that they would feed on, things that spiders would normally prey. And with that being said, anytime you have an increase food source and an increase water source, you’re going to produce more. It’s much easier to provide for your offspring if you have something to feed them,” he said.
If you’ve recently started seeing spiders like orb weavers, Vague said there’s no need to worry because they’re actually harmless. But many spiders could mean it’s time to call pest control, because they tend to go where they can find the most food.
F that!
“I will set everything on fire.”
That has worked before, but exempt your hair.
5.56mm
It’s crickets in northern AZ. Most are small ones but then bigger ones came out and some can fly. I guess that might make them locusts. I dunno that much about insects.
Bleach?...
You sure it’s not cockroaches? Weird and funny. I laughed out loud a few times.
They Will Outlive Us All
“New York City. 2016. In the years since Hurricane Sandy, the city has been brought to its knees by a series of ‘Frankenstorms.’ As hurricane season hits yet again, New York braces itself for the oncoming wave of destruction. Roommates Margot and Daniel attempt to survive this ‘new’ New York by avoiding it at all costs. But with the advent of three strange deaths in their Brooklyn building, the world they’ve been hiding from is knocking hard on the back door. They soon discover that the salad days of getting drunk and watching horror movies are behind them, because they have a new roommate, and he’s got a real bug up his ass.”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3018560/?ref_=ttpl_pl_tt
I’m with you! This time of year wolf spiders tend to get in the house. Which freaks me out to no end.
That’s what I get! They’re big and fast. They don’t make webs, they ambush. I hate them most of all.
“Anything that moves in my place besides me dies.”
Have you killed your wife yet? :)
What wife?...
LOL! Those are coming next year!
I almost hate his acting more than spiders...almost.
No contest for me: I hate his acting more.
No, fire works but you have to burn down the whole place.
Bleach just pisses off the Black widows and Brown Recluses.
May I suggest either Willie Pete or napalm?
Bueno suerte.
5.56mm
If I didn’t have a phobia of spiders, I would hate him more.
I’m a massive arachnophobic but if they’re not directly in my way I generally let them be unless I have to work around or near them. Not happening. I’ll leave or torch it. But when one is outside on the side of my house, and those are usually the size of a saucer or a CD, I leave them alone. If you kill all the spiders in an area, you’re gonna get overrun by other stuff.
That said, I almost walked into one of those golden orb spiders, a little smaller than a fist, and I freaked out and blew it away with a 12 gauge. I was following hog tracks and almost walked right into it’s web.
Damn near pissed myself lol
Won't do anything to the cockroaches though.
White phosphorous will do. I’ll make sure to put two tons of magnesium strips in my place.
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