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SPIDERS!!
- Thread starter Mark Wilson
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The carrot in your avatar says differently...
I thought it was a friggin baseball bat at first!
Is that what you use to "handle" tarantulas?
I have used a stick about that size to move tarantulas around in my campsite or to put them out of harm's way if they go on the road.
A couple years back a spider nested in my stereo. I felt something on my face, so I jumped out of bed and turned on my lamp to see baby spiders all over the place coming out of the back of my stereo. We bombed the house the next day and I slept on the couch for a couple nights.
This year I ended up with a bee hive outside my window. Found out when I walked in my bedroom, got stung and saw a bunch of bees all over the place. Bombed the room and sprayed the hive outside the window. Slept on the couch for a couple nights.
Out here we have the occasional brown recluse. Nast buggers. Jump a long ways, bite hard, and are big.
This year I ended up with a bee hive outside my window. Found out when I walked in my bedroom, got stung and saw a bunch of bees all over the place. Bombed the room and sprayed the hive outside the window. Slept on the couch for a couple nights.
Out here we have the occasional brown recluse. Nast buggers. Jump a long ways, bite hard, and are big.
Your spider story reminds me of my baby spider infestation. One night I was chillin, playin some bass in my room. At about 1:00 am I decided it was bedtime and layed back on my bed. Upon looking up at my ceiling, it seemed like the whole thing was crawling, it took me a sec to figure it out, and when I took a bit closer of a look, I realized it was a giant swarm of baby spiders that had apparently been attracted to my ceiling light. It must have been a few egg sacks at least, because the whole ceiling was covered, it was incredibly disgusting. It must have taken me a week or 2 at least till I finally had them completely cleared up with some diligent aerosol flamethrower action.
is that what once dead means? Far out! How were you after the sting?
Well there were lots of little jellyfish around and they had tiny stings but not really anything you'd flinch over, when the initial sting happened it just felt like a heap of the tiny ones hit at once. I didn't really think twice about it. Then on the trip home I started feeling a bit ill. When I got back home I threw up and assumed I had heatstroke. Then there was 12 hours of excruciating pain and weird body temps. My top half was freezing and my legs were hot and sweating like crazy. Then the next day I noticed a red patch on my belly, so I talked to my neighbour who is a nurse and told her what happened and she said all symptoms lined up with an irukandji sting.
We have those farkin' banana spiders (which is what I think they're called) that hang around here. Walking around in your backyard and BAM- you're face to face with this huge black-and-yellow mutha hanging on a web. GROSS.
I don't love spiders, but as you mentioned the "design" is awesome, specially black widows
Tarantulas otoh 
TomA1234 said:
Yes I did forget to mention that! while camping (bunch of people drinking way too much) my buddy's step dad got bit by one. He wasn't having any fun after that... Left an impressive scar (hole) though.
My wife has done that multiple times. The end result usually makes me consider planting one in there just so I can come to her rescue and let her show her appreciation again ...
The main part of our house is around 80 years old and the addition is over 20. The old part of the house is all but over run with daddy long legs and common brown house spiders and the addition is slowly being taken over. We have tried everything short of a full house chemical fumigation to no real avail. We knock them out in a certain part of the place for a while, but they always come back. They are harmless and no real bother or danger, but the webs are becoming a real PITA. I personally have no problem with dropping the pest control equivalent of an A bomb and getting rid of them once and for all, but wifey is worried about what effect it may have on our doggies, kitties, and us.
The upside is we don't have any worry over any other type of 6 or 8 legged critters bothering us.
Oh yeah. First Black Widow encounter ever back in '94 (in Texas). "Honey, what's this red hourglass thingy staring up at me from inside the (car part stored in garage) door?"
EMPTIED the Raid can on that puppy. And then the Tarantulas "sunning" themself in the parking lot at work. NIICE.
Chris
Here in NJ, the spiders aren't so bad. I don't think that I've ever seen a Brown Recluse. My middle son did almost get bit by a Black Widow one time but even still, they're not as bad as they're made out to be.
What really sucks here are the cellar centipedes. We get them big too.
Those freaky alien things make spiders look cute.
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What really sucks here are the cellar centipedes. We get them big too.
Those freaky alien things make spiders look cute.
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The only spider that get's a second look from me are dock spiders. Now I don't know if they have a more scientific name, but that's what we call them.
As their name reflects, you can/will always find them in and around a dock or in the water or worse, in your boat.
and yes, if you corner them, they will attack!
Dolomedes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fishheadjoe
As their name reflects, you can/will always find them in and around a dock or in the water or worse, in your boat.
and yes, if you corner them, they will attack!
Dolomedes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fishheadjoe
Applying a poultice of activated charcoal, cholestyramine or both will take care of that problem.
Peace,
S
seriously??
I thought that once you were bit, there was pretty much nothing you can do other than wait it out. (and maybe take antibiotics if any secondary infections started to take place)
IME and from what I have read, it makes a big difference.
I had a bite of unknown origin that kept ulcerating and getting bigger. The tent I used for my bathroom at the time had tons of spiders, some resembled recluse spiders but I could not be 100% sure. I read about using activated charcoal on recluse bites in a few places online. People said it really helped. Again I did not know the origin of the bite but it kept growing and I had nothing to loose.
I was living in a campground at the time. I did not have any activated charcoal with me but I did have some cholestyramine which I knew had the ability to bind certain classes of biological toxins. I mixed it with water and applied the paste, changing it twice a day, and things started to turn around pretty quickly. Even after it began to heal over, It would periodically ulcerate again and start getting deeper but I just started to apply the cholestyramine (CSM) again each time this happened.
In the end I had a small scar but nothing like what I would have expected with the direction that things seemed to be heading at first.
YMMV of course.
S
