BS: Spiders in the House...

Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House...
From: VirginiaTam
Date: 28 Sep 11 - 02:05 PM

I had a spider bite when I was 15 that gave me a horrible infection in my right hand. Had to have hand cut open in 2 places (no anesthetic cheap Army doctors) poison /infection pushed out of the two cuts and then stents put in for a week to let rest drain away. I tell you I shocked my Mom with the swearing. Things I am sure she never heard before.

Just 2 weeks ago a spider got between my sports bra and my back. 9 bites. Itched like the devil for few days but nothing worse than that. Spiders in the UK are wimps. If it had been an American spider I'd probably had a serious allergic reaction.

Spiders just tend to come indoors in the autumn. It is what they do.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House...
From: gnu
Date: 28 Sep 11 - 02:55 PM

Hehehee... I left my house early this AM without my sunglasses. I keep a cheap pair in the overhead glasses storage compartment in my truck. I popped it open, grabbed the glasses, put them on and that's when the resident jumped on my eyeball. It looked like a blurry giant spider in the movies. I reacted and shut my eyeball and trapped the little bugger. It was squirming to get free and I mushed him on my eyelid. Had to do an eye wash when I got home.

Made me think of Becca! Hehehehehe.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House...
From: Becca72
Date: 28 Sep 11 - 03:08 PM

Ewwwww! Thanks a lot, Gnu. I would have crashed my car if that had happened to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House...
From: gnu
Date: 28 Sep 11 - 03:12 PM

Nahhhhh... you woulda done what I did... but without all the swearing. Hmmmm... then again, you were taught to swear by a sailor of note so maybe ya woulda?

Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House...
From: Becca72
Date: 28 Sep 11 - 03:22 PM

Quite - I am more proficient than many of my peers thanks to years of listening in on home car repairs. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House...
From: gnu
Date: 28 Sep 11 - 04:58 PM

I understand there is a newly revised cousre in same on the go at the moment regarding a Packard. People should be advised to sign up.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House...
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Sep 11 - 05:05 PM

Bobert, I wonder why you never offered a picture of the spiders.
It must not be a serious infestation.
If the spiders are hairy and grey then it is probably a wolf spider.
I have wolf spiders in a shed that measure two and one half inches (which is unusually big) and capable of leaping three feet or more.

One thing to NOT do is use a bug bomb. It will kill off the predators of the spiders and allow the spiders an enviorment to quadruple its numbers to thousands of spiders in 3 weeks.

They could be hobo spiders which are not particularly poisonous but are very septic when they sink their fangs into peoplem somehwat like the Komodo dragon. Hobo spider bites would cause cellulitis and demand medical attention.

The reason why spiders have venom is to paralyze thier prey so they may bind and digest their food with ease. A wonderful spider TV show is called MOnster Wars and is probably available on you tube.

Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House...
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 28 Sep 11 - 05:51 PM

Donuel, please please please tell me you don't live in the UK!!!!! Because if these type of spiders live in UK I'm outa here!

Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House...
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 28 Sep 11 - 11:07 PM

Bettynh -

The Prairie Kingsnake is very close to our little invader, or at least the last 4 or 5 inches off the tail of the one in the picture looks like ours. The Kingsnake was one of a couple of suspects when I pulled up the references, but for some reason the refs I found showed entirely different looking things under the Kingsnake name. The pictures I found were probably the Chicken Coop (Eggsucker) Kingsnake instead of the Prairie King Snake - they weren't very specific about the details.

Either way, I hope it moves on to where the bugs are before I do the fall landscaping, 'cause she landed where I've been planning to do some serious weed control and the Roto-Tiller might make snakeburgers.

I did confirm that a mysterious hole in the front lawn, about half way out to the mail box is a spidey hole. It's been there for at least four or five months, and has had obvious increase in diameter, to about 7/8 inch now, smoother walls than when I first noticed it, and some cleanout around the entrance and such, but nothing visible when I looked down into it. A couple of nights ago I aimed a flashlight down in the middle of the night, and got a nice view of some cute little eyes (lots of 'em) lookin' back up at me, on a face that looked a little bit like an extremely tiny little walrus. Could be any of a half dozen kinds that are common here, but it's far enough from the house to be left to her bug control business, unless she starts invitin' the boys over and playin' loud rock music all night.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Spiders in the House...
From: Becca72
Date: 29 Sep 11 - 09:02 AM

LOL, Gnu. I took a class in "cursing out a Packard" many years ago, too. It was just a different Packard. :-)