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seamus7227

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I just wanted to share a friend that resides in my from yard, in front of his burrow.lol, that's my finger for size.

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Itsy bitsy spider..... (how does that song go? :redface: ) You call that a spider?

Sorry, I'll behave now. :biggrin:
 
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IPD_Mr said:
Seamus there is something seriously wrong with you. It would have been better to compare it's size with a ruler once it was firmly implanted on the heel of your boot!

No catch the thing and cast it! :eek:
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What he said.

I don't mind spiders so much as I just don't like the webs. However, the Brown Recluse and Black Widow are ones I'm happy to have never crossed paths with. We do occasionally get them up here, and they'll probably have more extended stays with the warmer weather we've been having. Still though, it would make a cool cast providing it isn't too big for the pen.
 
Talking about casting one....couple years ago I set a piece outside I had just put on some self leveling clear coat...and a grass spider crawled on it. I didn't notice because the flat work had a deer antler rack attached on top. I found him cast the next morning LOL He was just strong enough to get it all over him but not get away. It was pretty cool, I cut him out (had to re-due the piece) but I had him sitting on my desk a long time until SWMBO made me move it
 
Jgrden said:
Is it a Fox Spider or a Garden Spider?
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Well, im not sure the technical name, but we call them Wolf Spiders. If you notice the hole underneath it, that is its home. I have always wondered what made those holes, so while i was pulling out the water hose to clean off my recent snake catch(Blotched Water Snake) from the tanning solution, i saw this hole so i dribbled a little bit of water down the hole and this is what came out of it!
 
Seamus,

Just reflecting a little on Red Back Spiders the Redder ones are females (fact not inference) and when we built our first house in the last century commencing in 1955 (AD)
bricks were in very short supply ,our house was timber framed with weatherboard and the immediate neighbor a brikkie (bricklayer) from Europe trying to both save money and use everything he could obtain used a real lot of half bricks in a large full brick house. Sorting brick from piles of them one day a Red Back spider bit him on the hand which in a very short span of minutes became larger than a football, reminiscent of a shipping mine shape, they just saved his life. He completed his home as we did ours but it increased my awareness and respect for the unknown perils.

There is a famous song by Slim Dusty about the Redback on the toilet seat, early days the Dunny was a minor shed in the backyard with a log drop under a one holer or two holer wooden seat always an uneasy proposition.

Thanks for showing your spider we have heavy Huntsman virtually harmless that feel like a bird if they drop onto you from above, we ie me and my mob tend to pick them up in a tea towel or large jar and take them outside and let them go. The Spider referred to as a bird eating one this is the first time in my life I have or my Dad or Grandfather taking us back to 1870 at least has been mentioned. This one was located two or three thousand miles from us in another environment.

Kind regards Peter.
 
I cannot imagine why I read this thread to start with until I read this comment. This is the point where I realized that some folks out there that need some serious talkin to.

Licking poisonous snakes is no different than messing with spiders(leave em be or kill em) keep your fingers and tongues away from them.

InvisibleMan said:
I would run my tongue the entire length of a poisonous snake's body before I'd get my finger that close to a big spider.
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Spiders are very beneficial to all of us. I know that lots of people don't like them. Except for the poisonous one they do a lot of good. I catch them and put them outside. Wolf spiders keep down the other nasty bugs and help balance things out.
 
We've got black widows all over the place here in Bakersfield. After you've lived here for a while you learn where they are most likely to be found, (hiding under things, or in enclosed spaces) so it is pretty easy to avoid them. That said, when people ask why I charge an additional $50 to crawl under a house (prime black widow real estate) during a home inspection, all I have to say is, "confined space, black widows." After that, everybody agrees that the additional fee is warranted.
 
Seamus you are a sick puppy. having been chewed on by a recluse there's no way in Waxahatchie I'd stick any part of me that close to a fiddle back. But I do have a dead one in my desk, but it's too curled and dried up to cast, but key word IT'S DEAD!!!!! the only way they all should ever be.
 
Given that we have brown recluse spiders in NC, I don't go sticking my hand into piles of wood (either firewood, or drying lumber). Black widows can also be found in sheds and under eaves. On cold days, the wolf spiders seem to congregate in my crawl space. On the whole, though, I keep a sharper lookout for poison ivy than for spiders.

Back when I lived in Florida, I once had a wolf spider with over a 4 inch legspan in the house. I know because it was on the edge of 4" wide interior wall.

Regards,
Eric
 
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