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JuanDeFuca

Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 17, 2008 - 02:39pm PT
Does any type of Spider mistaken for a Black Widow?
I keep finding these spiders out in the Garden that could be black widow clones but without the red hourglass.

Please Advise at your Leisure.

Juan
John Moosie

climber
Beautiful California
Oct 17, 2008 - 02:43pm PT
Yes, its an Obama spider. You're doomed. Doomed I tell ya.
nature

climber
Santa Fe, NM
Oct 17, 2008 - 02:47pm PT
pick it up and let it bite you and report back to us and let us know.

thanks!
Nefarius

Big Wall climber
somewhere without avatars.........
Oct 17, 2008 - 02:51pm PT
Are we talking juvenile or adult widows? Juveniles are not black, but rather white with brown stripes to darker with spots. Depends on their age...
JuanDeFuca

Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 17, 2008 - 03:09pm PT
Has anyone inspected Obama's Belly?

Juan
Jaybro

Social climber
wuz real!
Oct 17, 2008 - 04:02pm PT
or,

[img]http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:POPiL3lVknM06M:http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/nv/NVRENvwspider1_boulter.jpg{{/img}}

this?
nature

climber
Santa Fe, NM
Oct 17, 2008 - 04:05pm PT
You know I once got bit by a black widow.










The reaction was horrible.














It vaguely reminded me of something I saw on this site recently...

















Maybe I can find it...



















One sec...















Oh! here it is!




























JuanDeFuca

Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 17, 2008 - 09:53pm PT
http://www.sdnhm.org/fieldguide/inverts/stea-gro.html
JuanDeFuca

Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
Topic Author's Reply - Oct 17, 2008 - 10:01pm PT
http://www.findtarget.com/pictures/false_black_widow.html
Mighty Hiker

Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Oct 17, 2008 - 10:09pm PT
In the interests of balance and such: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Spider:_The_Classic_Account_of_the_Ascent_of_the_Eiger
healyje

Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
Oct 18, 2008 - 12:53am PT
Juan, you have far better odds getting laid within your lifetime then being bitten by a spider. Long odds either way, but the spider thing is probably not going to happen...
nature

climber
Santa Fe, NM
Oct 18, 2008 - 12:54am PT
that said....


my money is on the spider.
Karl Baba

Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
Oct 18, 2008 - 01:00am PT
Another identifying sign of black widow spiders is that their webs are kinda messy and disorganized. Like you'd expect from an angsty teenage punk rock spider.

peace

Karl
Jaybro

Social climber
wuz real!
Oct 18, 2008 - 01:22am PT
I've never been bitten by a spider...
drljefe

climber
Calizona
Oct 18, 2008 - 01:25am PT
I got bit by a brown recluse. Not pretty.
Jaybro

Social climber
wuz real!
Oct 18, 2008 - 01:30am PT
Rocky Mtn spotted tick fever (or the other one)
scorpion sting
4 wasp stings
infected cat bite

other things Are more likely...
drljefe

climber
Calizona
Oct 18, 2008 - 01:37am PT
I will forever store my clothes inside out, and shake them out.
The crater the bite left was serious- luckily it was on my rump.
dirtineye

Trad climber
the south
Oct 18, 2008 - 01:42am PT
Damn, Healyje, I've gotten laid AND been bitten by a spider, both more than once, in my lifetime. Tell me, what does this mean?

BUT to be fair, none of the spider bites were from the really nasty spiders.
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Oct 18, 2008 - 01:54am PT
hey there drljefe... say, my son, in south texas got bit TWICE (at two different time from the brown recluse---he surely does NOT like anything to do with spiders now, or ever again)...

we think from a rusty old car he had been working on.... could have messed up his knee... he was blessed and got through it all.... think the other bit was on his arm? or leg.. cant remember...

yeah, BAD stuff, though, and it progresses too fast, too...
drljefe

climber
Calizona
Oct 18, 2008 - 02:15am PT
I was in 6th grade and one day noticed blood on my OP shorts(does that date me?) but had no pain. By the next day my butt cheek had a half-cantaloupe sized sac on it! I went to the doctor and as soon as he saw it he said "OH SH*T!" Sorry if this is gross but he popped it like a zit with tongue depressors and the blood that came out was black. For months skin flaked off the crater. Still have a dimple! I don't kill spiders but I sure don't like them!
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