So gross....I am so tired of TN

klv

I have this awful fear of spiders. ?When the garbage can outside became engulfed with spiderwebs, I wouldnt touch it and DH laughed at me!

?It has been like that for a few weeks, until today when I got the hose out and tried to clean the trash can. ?There was a HUGE black widow spider on the underside of the handle. We are talking the side of my thumb. So nasty. It would just have been a matter of time until DH went to grab the garbage and that thing would have bit him!

?I cant wait to move somewhere that has bugs that wont kill you. ??

Misss_e

I totally feel you on that one.   There was a huge spidey on my desk at work I lost my mind...Im still shaken up  by it!

MISSD2U

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hoping4septimus

DH swears a brown recluse bit him yesterday when he was working the yard. I don't know but his foot is swollen now. I hate the spiders and all the bugs seem much larger here.

JWANDIDO

I was at my Parent's house last night and there was a black widow behind some stuff on the porch. I have only ever seen one other black widow in my life and that was in a dark shed. They are so scary!

amykevin

Bugs are bad pretty much anywhere you go. Don't ever go to Florida! They are just bugs! Maybe they don't bother me b/c I grew up camping, hiking, fishing, etc...

?

I can't tell you how many spiders live in my barn & around my house. I don't kill them....they eat the flies & mosquitos. There is one huge wolf spider & one writing spider (they are so cool) that drop webs every single night & take them down every morning. They do it like clock work. They don't bother a thing.

?

It's been a wet year, so you will need to watch out for Black Widows. They are territorial, so unless you have a large property you should not see another one.

?

I was bit by one about 1o years ago while working at a camp & had to have a skin graft....but only because I was 1 hour from a hospital.?

RockysLove

I usually don't have a problem with them but there are just so many this year!  I was trying to retrain my morning glories yesterday and was sure I was going to get bit by someting sticking my fingers down into that mess.  Oh, and trimming the hedges?  That was an adventure.  As long as they stay outside though, I'll try to leave them alone.

hpjones

We have roaches in our apartment that are huge!!  I didn't even know what they were at first.  It's disgusting, especially when they crawl out from under the coffeemaker.  At least they don't bite though!

sgrl

Hey, to the lady whose DH thinks he was bitten by a brown recluse - please, if he has not gone to the doctor, please tell him to go immediately!

 

Black widows and brown recluse bites usually won't kill you, but black widow bites are extremely painful (their venom contains a neurotoxin, which causes pain all over your nervous system). Not everyone will have a bad reaction to a brown recluse bite, but for the people who do - it's nasty. Tell your husband to do a google image search on "brown recluse bite" if he's reluctant to go to the doctor - that should change his mind. This information is courtesy of my former boss, who's fascinated by spiders and knows all kinds of junk about them, and told me all this stuff to convince me that I really DID need to kill that black widow spider in my garage, rather than just moving it outside like my bleeding-heart self wanted to.