Spiders

I love spiders! There are only a couple of rules for spiders in my house. They can't crawl in my bed when I'm in there, too, and they can't be poisonous or bite me. The punishment for breaking those rules is death. Otherwise, they get to live. We usually have an orb weaver living between the chains on my ceiling fan in the living room, there's a baby there right now. there are a ton of little black jumping spiders all over. Last year we had three or four big orb weavers in random places because of the flies. They were cool. I kind of miss them.

 

I actually felt a lot better about both of these spiders after i did some research, and I found brown recluses really arent that common in SC. They arent native to this area. They are prolific in the mideast and can be found by the thousands in basements and other dark areas in that region but if you find them in SC it is generally because they hitched a ride from other parts of the country. And of course they are more scared of you than you are of them. Generally any contact with them will be limited to finding them hiding in a shoe or other clothing that has been stashed in a closet for a while so shaking out your shoes and clothing should be fine.

Black widows' venom isnt actually strong enough to kill an adult, it will just make you ill. I know you said earlier in the threas you've seen them inside. I've actually never seen one anywhere except hiding under rocks outside so i've never really given them a second thought.

 

I am terrified of spiders, especially the big house spiders I get. I have once had one in my bed and nearly had a heart attack! I'm afraid I killed that one out of sheer panic. But haven't killed any others, always get a glass and trap them and take them out, but I still hate having to that. I keep those spindly spiders around because they kill the big house spiders, the more of those the better!

 

Years ago, a friend of mine worked for a reptile and exotic pet store and he'd always get interesting pets. I think of all the stranger ones he had (tarantula, scorpions, pygmy chameleons) the tarantula was the coolest. It seemed to have the most "personality" of those, like it appeared quite "shy" when you'd go to the cage but then would seem to get comfortable and explore a bit, when we took it out.

Probably can't bond with it in the same way you can a lot of pet mammals, but it was fairly interesting as a pet with my brief exposure to it.

 

http://www.************/zoe.perry.1/videos/10153579447723649/

 

Dang I've seen both! of them here in the house. We do have a basement and they could have hitched a ride from down there to upstairs...but since I live literally surrounded by trees and woods, these spiders may think they are in their natural habitat. :-/

I saw a black widow earlier this year in one of the radiators I was bleeding (to get the heat to work). I've seen others but that was the latest one. Also, I've seen more than one brown recluse this year. I've seen LOTS of spiders I thought could be brown recluses, but I know for absolute certain I've seen 2. :yikes: What is so "funny" (not haha) is that years ago there was all kinds of supposed research and literature that said that a black widow bite would kill you. Now, that information has changed. I'm not wanting to find out personally though.

A few years back my nearest neighbor down the road (not a distant walk) - the lady of the house got bit by a recluse and almost lost her leg, and then her life. She wound up down in Charleston at the Medical University where she got better...but still - spiders -

Last but not least, I've looked up about both the black widows and brown recluses being "web builder". Well, they ARE web builders but the webs do not appear to be a design. The pictures I saw and what was said was they webs appear to be "random" (I think that is the word they used). At any rate, today I saw 2 (TWO!) areas inside the house here that had that exact kind of web. smh. I then went outside to one of my rock piles and what was across the top but a "random, no-design" web. good grief. I decided that was a sign to walk away.

 

I kill any and all spiders I see. They are terrifying.

 

did your grandma name most of her pets boris?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXBR96Z8_e8



I had a spider above my curtain rail in my lounge for a while. Every now and then it would come out for a stroll along the ceiling, and sometimes parascend from the ceiling and go back up again.

I think they are good company.

 

Hotwater

 

The NRA version

 

Snap !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8dSBWysmnM&feature=youtu.be

 

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I coexist with the spiders in my apartment but I think I would run from that guy.

 

Last night I was looking for a book in a very little used (or never used is the truth) part of the house...upstairs here. Thanks to this thread! I had a flashlight in hand so as to avoid the "random spider webs". Good thing!!!

Sitting Right Where I would have put my hand if I hadn't had the flashlight was a "random web" WITH A BROWN RECLUSE THERE IN IT pretty as you please. :yikes:

I didn't kill it, mainly because as I moved closer with the flash light in hand, it dashed away behind a radiator.

I couldn't help but wonder if the black widows and the brown recluses that both seem to enjoy life around these radiators get along with each other.

 

Simple rule, based on leg count.

anything that has less than 2 legs or more than 4= bad.