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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 2, 2015 - 09:12am PT
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Anyone else dealing with these little f***ers? After the T storms in San Diego county all of my friends houses exploded with these guys and at night there's a ring around our house of brown widow spiders. I don't have pets or kids, and apparently they are less aggressive than their more well known heirs, but damn. They are everywhere.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070510083028.htm
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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My son swore he saw one here in Newcastle, but it's sure not from rain storms!
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Caveman
climber
Cumberland Plateau
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We have them here in abundance. I noticed that we have quite a few blue mud daubers also. Evidently widow spiders are the favorite prey of the blue mud dauber.
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Black Widows guard their egg sacs until the eggs hatch, displaying about as much motherhood instinct as a goddamn spider can.
Brown Widows will leave their eggs and walk away whenever it pleases them. Just take off and go. Maybe the eggs will take care of themselves. Or maybe they won't. A Brown Widow doesn't care.
I have both of them around here.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Same toxicity as Black Widow but much less dangerous as the Brown Widow can not
deliver as much venom per bite.
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Captain...or Skully
climber
Boise, ID
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Leave them alone & they'll leave you alone. Murder is murder.
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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All over our front yard
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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I can handle spiders......but centipedes make my skin crawl.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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We've got a clever German invention.
You carefully place it over a spider (or annoying bug of choice). Because the top is clear plastic, they don't scamper away. Having contained the critter, slide the red plastic floor forward and the hexapod/octapod menace is contained. Take the beast outside where it belongs and let it go to feast on flies, skeeters etc. Or become food for the birds.
Here's a place to get it. My wife buys it locally but I don't know where. We've worn one out and given several as gifts. This one has a green floor.
http://www.petacatalog.com/products/Humane_Bug_Catcher-584-3.html
Black Widows. kill on sight.....obviously.
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 2, 2015 - 03:34pm PT
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If I decided to relocate all of them I would have to quit my job and hire a few porters... I kill 15-20 / night, and that's just because I get bored.
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Gunkie
climber
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Having been bitten by a black widow when I was 21, I know the grief involved. Since then, I give no quarter to spiders. They all die.
I know someone who was also bitten and has the exact same feeling for these things. Apparently he almost died and was in excruciating pain for days; mostly muscular cramping and seizing followed by respiratory difficulty. Only then did he receive anti-venom. It seems that you can only receive one dose of anti-venom in a lifetime, so they hold off for as long as possible. Maybe I understand that incorrectly?
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Capt.
climber
some eastside hovel
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I'm also of the mind that I usually don't kill anything. I just came home after two months away and found two widows set up inside my front door. Smashed on sight. Black widows are NOT allowed in the house. Their poison attacks the liver in a major way. That's the last thing my liver needs.;-)
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Capt.
climber
some eastside hovel
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^^^ Burly & fu*k that!!!
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