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Close Call with a Black Widow #8009506 10/14/20 01:49 PM
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I just felt a sense that there may be a danger under the latch of an ammo can that I was going to open. So I used gloves and a tool to open it and I was right...

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I had one bite me earlier this year on my arm and it was very painful.

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I've only seen one in my life in a park just outside town. It was an impressive sight.

Given the web all over the place, I can imagine why you were nervous to open the can.


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I grew up on the northeast side of San Antonio, never saw a black widow till i was in my early 20's and my parents bought a property in south texas. We kill them at the ranch all the time.

I moved to the southeast side of San Antonio, about 25 miles from my childhood home. The first year after we built our garage i was cleaning up for my son's birthday party and i killed 8 of them in the garage.... i treat it regularly now and dont put on gloves/welding mask/hat etc. without giving it a look first!


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I hate those things. Snakes don't bother me but venomous spiders do.

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Originally Posted by Choctaw
I hate those things. Snakes don't bother me but venomous spiders do.


My wife kills several a year.....I usually just move them where they won’t bother anyone


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Actually, BBC is pretty damn good

"You Cannot Simultaneously Be Politically Correct And Intellectually Honest!"
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Originally Posted by SnakeWrangler
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I hate those things. Snakes don't bother me but venomous spiders do.


My wife kills several a year.....I usually just move them where they won’t bother anyone


That's why you're weird. roflmao

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Kill em all. I hate them.

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Originally Posted by Choctaw
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I hate those things. Snakes don't bother me but venomous spiders do.


My wife kills several a year.....I usually just move them where they won’t bother anyone


That's why you're weird. roflmao


I’ve been called worse.....if I can move something to no longer be a threat I try to go that route.....

Wasps and scorpions around the house don’t get a pass. Can’t relocate wasps and they kill spiders so that’s two strikes against them.

Have had to many bad experiences with scorpions.....


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HunterSteve what did you do for treatment?

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I thought Buzz was going to be involved with this story.

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About once per summer we have tiny ants coming in the house looking for water. I go around the foundation with pesticide for the ants. When I do I also spray around the baseboards in the garage under all the junk, etc. I always find dead Black Widows the next day in the garage. That is in addition to all the others we find here and there and kill.

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Originally Posted by SnakeWrangler
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I hate those things. Snakes don't bother me but venomous spiders do.


My wife kills several a year.....I usually just move them where they won’t bother anyone


That's why you're weird. roflmao


I’ve been called worse.....if I can move something to no longer be a threat I try to go that route.....

Wasps and scorpions around the house don’t get a pass. Can’t relocate wasps and they kill spiders so that’s two strikes against them.

Have had to many bad experiences with scorpions.....


The deal I have with spiders is if they are outside they can live and work there and I won't bother them. However, if due to an amazing lack of judgement they come inside it's game on. Scorpions get wacked no matter where I find them.

I went to the back to make coffee this morning at the office and the floor looked like the centipede version of the Kentucky Derby. Don't know what's up with that.

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Originally Posted by skinnerback
Kill em all. I hate them.

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Originally Posted by Sneaky
I believe in science and I’m an insufferable [censored]
Originally Posted by beaversnipe
Actually, BBC is pretty damn good

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Ortho Home Defense has kept them out of my garage.


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I've been bitten by scorpion - hurts, goes away

brown recluse - hurts, swelling for several weeks, goes away

black widow - hurts, goes away

wasp/hornets - hurts, swelling, crater in skin; goes away

bees - throbbing pain, very unpleasant feeling - this is the one pain that I hate the most of all experiences

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I learned a painful lesson from a scorpion and since try to never put my hands where I can't see what is lurking, and/or wear gloves most of the time. Got hit by a hornet a couple of weeks ago, and it only hurt for a bit, but my arm was swollen for a couple of days. While in school I got bitten by a fiddleback - that was NOT a good experience. Very painful, I ran a fever for a while, and my arm became swollen to the point it had to be lanced - deeply. Still have a scar.

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Originally Posted by SnakeWrangler
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Kill em all. I hate them.

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That would make a huge mess when smashed.



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a buddy of mine got bit on the tip of his finger. Said he iced it and took some Tylenol and swelling only went to the first knuckle luckily.

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Originally Posted by cabosandinh
I've been bitten by scorpion - hurts, goes away

brown recluse - hurts, swelling for several weeks, goes away

black widow - hurts, goes away

wasp/hornets - hurts, swelling, crater in skin; goes away

bees - throbbing pain, very unpleasant feeling - this is the one pain that I hate the most of all experiences


Dang you have some back luck!!!!

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Originally Posted by SnakeWrangler
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Kill em all. I hate them.

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I had a deer stand covered inside them once. Multiple nests and black widow spiders everywhere. I killed MANY of them that hunt. I had never seen that many in one spot before. Now I spray the stand a week or so before season starts.


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I had a pop up blind become a black widow incubator once. Bowhunting, went to get in the blind and there were HUNDREDS of them in there. Probably 20-30 females and hundreds of males. The entire inside of the blind was covered. I truly hate spiders, all spiders, so needless to say I didn't hunt that morning. That was the last time I ever left a pop up blind up long term (it was up/brushed in for a couple of weeks).

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Originally Posted by skinnerback
I had a pop up blind become a black widow incubator once. Bowhunting, went to get in the blind and there were HUNDREDS of them in there. Probably 20-30 females and hundreds of males. The entire inside of the blind was covered. I truly hate spiders, all spiders, so needless to say I didn't hunt that morning. That was the last time I ever left a pop up blind up long term (it was up/brushed in for a couple of weeks).


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