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Brown Recluse

I've seen one once in my life, and I want to say I saw a black widow once, but I might have dreamed that one. I can see the stupid thing, but not where I saw it. My mind's blank in that regard, and I'd expect a black widow to be more memorable :^/
 
lxskllr said:
I've seen one once in my life, and I want to say I saw a black widow once, but I might have dreamed that one. I can see the stupid thing, but not where I saw it. My mind's blank in that regard, and I'd expect a black widow to be more memorable :^/
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I've seen a black widow before. They are actually quite small and don't look very scary.
 
We had hundreds of Back Widows in the yard when we lived in California. They're shiny black critters...and quick too...
MOST spiders I consider beneficial to the yard/garden. Not Black Widows or Brown Recluse spiders...both of those are "kill on sight."
 
I've seen dogs that have been bitten on the snout by those. They required reconstructive surgery to close up the holes where the dead flesh fell out. If seen some scars on people 10+ years later. Be careful with that thing, you could lose a finger, I'm not kidding.
 
I never saw the spider itself, but I saw the aftermath of a bite on a guys leg shortly before he was picked up by EMT. One of the nastiest wounds I've seen in person, no doubt about it.

Black widows were absolutely everywhere at my father in laws old place in Alabama. He was showing me his garden projects, walking around bare foot, and the fuckers are scurrying away from bushes and clumps of grass we disturbed. Went from never having seen one to seeing 50-60 in one afternoon. I'm still amazed he lived there for as long as he did and never had one problem with them. Might have been the cigars... *shrug*


You arachnophobes would have had shit multiple bricks on one of those walks!
 
MrColin said:
I've seen dogs that have been bitten on the snout by those. They required reconstructive surgery to close up the holes where the dead flesh fell out. If seen some scars on people 10+ years later. Be careful with that thing, you could lose a finger, I'm not kidding.
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The kid I mentioned, his leg turned black and ruptured, knee to ankle.

Getting a weird feeling in my throat just thinking about it.
 
chalmers said:
He posted under his own free will, you can make no such claim.
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I see nothing wrong with tossing a net over the lurkers who venture out now and then. Sure you can be all sporting about it and lure them out, but there's also the wait-and-watch approach to hunting. In some cases, it's even illegal to put out bait for what you're after.



chalmers said:
I'd scream like a little girl if I saw one of those at home.
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Stuff like this makes me remember why I prefer the frozen north. Here, it's just the uncaring weather that is trying to slowly kill you. Not once does the weather try to bite you and envenomate you with a concoction that will slowly dissolve your flesh.

And what joy, at some point I've got to make a trip way down south, near to the Gulf of Mexico. (For work. Bleh.)
Home of black widows, killer bees, coral snakes, soda that's always called "coke," alligators, and so on.
 
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Cool pics! It's so cool to see closeup of bugs, there's so much detail to them, and the hair is crazy.

Hope you wore gloves and long sleeves to get that close to that. Those can actually kill you.

I'm glad we don't have any poisonous stuff here. It's one thing when spiders look scary but arn't actually harmful, but it's another thing when they ARE harmful.


Here's a few I've taken around the house, I'm not sure what kind they are, I think they're wolf spiders, or just common house spiders.







Their lair:



And on the subject of closeup bugs, two flies having sex:



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Hugo Drax said:
Can't see it, requires flash. Why would you need to install flash to watch static images?
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Yeah I hate when coders insist on over complicating something for no reason. Don't get me started with how Google keeps making Google image search worse and worse with their javascript BS. it's just freaking images! Display them normally.
 
MrColin said:
I've seen dogs that have been bitten on the snout by those. They required reconstructive surgery to close up the holes where the dead flesh fell out. If seen some scars on people 10+ years later. Be careful with that thing, you could lose a finger, I'm not kidding.
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You possibly could, but as long as you know what you're bit by. Most likely you'll only lose the flesh in the surrounding area. My sis got bit by one on her hand, only lost a chunk of flesh. Though it'd still suck.
 
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