Posted on 10/04/2010 1:12:42 PM PDT by lowbridge
Students in a San Diego elementary school are getting a lesson in arachnophobia.
Dozens of venomous black widow spiders have been found infesting classrooms in Pete W. Ross Elementary School, San Diego's KGTV reported.
"The spiders... are coming out now from the bookshelves and the doorways and even up in the rafters," April Robertson, a third grade teacher at the school, told the station.
No foolin.
Brown recluse is NASTY
...dust off and nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
I thought the bedbugs, and, silverfish, firebrats, and moths were bad. I’m soo inspecting my apartment.
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Top photo just wonderful! How cool!
Wow Michelle looks much thinner in this photo than in recent ones. Not trying to be mean or anything, she looks even happy in this one.
I don’t mind being a little further north. Have only seen 4 or 5 Black Widows (spider kind) in my life, and supposedly Brown Recluse do not reproduce here (but do get brought in). Even so, I woke up from my nap this afternoon with some kind of black spider on my arm, but flicked it off so fast I couldn’t identify it.
If you take one of the cans of compressed freon used for blowing dust out of computer keyboards (previously marketed to photographers as Dust-off) and invert it, it will spray liquid freon that will flash-freeze anything.
I’m wondering if there’s more than the usual amount of spider activity in California this year- here in Toronto we’ve had several incidents of black widows turning up in crates of California grapes.
Heh.
I’d just finished watching the new “Theatre Of Death” concert video as you were posting that.
[get outta my head....I can’t hear the voices]....:))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kJWoaxlykg
Cool pic. I like spiders.
We had a black widow living on our first house in southern California many moons ago. She disappeared, and we found that her web had an egg sack (mommy feeds herself to the babies) full of babies. They were so cute.
One day about ten years ago, a wolf spider got in our house in northern California. I had a hard time releasing it outside because it was so beautiful that I wanted to keep it. I didn't get a pic of it, but I found this photo on Bing:
I like spiders.
We have black widows here in So Cal. As a kid, I was terrified of them — no, of rumors of them. Really, they are mostly in attics and basements and wood piles, sometimes in dark corners in homes. My grandmother got bitten by one that was hiding in her garden shoes; she got what she thot was the flu, only to find that she had been bitten.
I read a post somewhere that, although you cannot kill them with garden sprays, engine de-greasers do a good job on them — and also those fire-lighters that flick on.
I heard that out-house bites (’back of the scrotum’) were one of THE most common Black Widow Spider problems, and that, with the advent of indoor plumbing, serious bites/ difficulties have gone way down.
Makes a vivid minds-eye picture!
Spider spray doesn’t kill black widows. You have to use engine de-greaser spray or those bbq (flick) lighters. Shoes are good, too.
One of my husband’s favorite boyhood hobbies was scouting the vacant lot nearby for black widows. He would collect them all in ONE jar. In the morning, only one would be left, plus a bunch of legs and skins.
When I lived in TX I never killed a spider before I got a good look with a LARGE magnifying glass.
Brown recluse are very difficult to identify!
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