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Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 01:49 PM
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Hunter-Steve
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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... I had one bite me earlier this year on my arm and it was very painful.
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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 01:51 PM
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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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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 01:56 PM
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redchevy
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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!
It's hell eatin em live
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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 02:05 PM
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I hate those things. Snakes don't bother me but venomous spiders do.
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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 03:00 PM
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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
I believe in science and I’m an insufferable [censored] Actually, BBC is pretty damn good "You Cannot Simultaneously Be Politically Correct And Intellectually Honest!"
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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 03:02 PM
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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.
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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 03:07 PM
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Kill em all. I hate them.
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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 03:07 PM
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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. 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.....
I believe in science and I’m an insufferable [censored] Actually, BBC is pretty damn good "You Cannot Simultaneously Be Politically Correct And Intellectually Honest!"
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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 03:08 PM
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HunterSteve what did you do for treatment?
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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 03:11 PM
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I thought Buzz was going to be involved with this story.
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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 03:13 PM
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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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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 03:16 PM
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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. 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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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 03:17 PM
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Kill em all. I hate them.
I believe in science and I’m an insufferable [censored] Actually, BBC is pretty damn good "You Cannot Simultaneously Be Politically Correct And Intellectually Honest!"
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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 04:57 PM
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redchevy
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Ortho Home Defense has kept them out of my garage.
It's hell eatin em live
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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 05:05 PM
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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 05:11 PM
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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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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 05:40 PM
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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.
If inside my shop or house or a blind, all pests are eradicated.
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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 07:51 PM
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Kill em all. I hate them. That would make a huge mess when smashed.
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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 09:44 PM
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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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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 09:44 PM
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dlrz71
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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 Dang you have some back luck!!!!
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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 09:49 PM
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Kill em all. I hate them. No Thank you.
Do not forget to entertain strangers, For by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels Hebrews 13:2 (R-TX)
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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 09:49 PM
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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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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 10:08 PM
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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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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 10:48 PM
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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). Gas, a match and different huntin’ spot
Man if I knew what Oxner knows I could throw away what I know
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Re: Close Call with a Black Widow
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10/14/20 11:48 PM
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hold on Newt, we got a runaway
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