[savagesusie]

We had them in a delapidated barn in Perry, OK. (although I never was bit)....but came close when some big scorpions slide out of my drawing pad!!! I also had a black widow hanging inside my mail box and accidently looked instead of grabbed my mail....I was lucky! How I ever survived OK--I will never know....

[mywholebodyisaweapon]

Here in S. Arkansas, I was weeding in my garden and caught a glimpse out of the corner of my eye of something crawling up the right back of my t-shirt. It was a large black widow. Thank God I shook it off. We get those things (and recluses) all the time. Fortunately they are not very aggressive. One of the earlier posters is right - chickens help keep their numbers down.

[RipSawyer]

"How I ever survived OK--I will never know...."
My first wife grew up in eastern OK, I took her back there to visit and we were both nearly eaten alive by ticks. I grew up in SC and we have ticks but they never did the damage that the OK type did. I was bitten near the waistline by one tick which left a black circle that was visible for the better part of a year before it finally went away. We went fishing several times while there and were constantly seeing poisonous snakes. On the way back home I was laughing and singing, "Oklahoma where the ticks are thicker than a fog".