Loud squeal (Page 2): I can identify with that; shortly after I moved out here and was living in a rented mobile home (my first location) in East Mesa, I got up at 3:00 AM for a whizz...

Big A Loc: Mesa, Arizona

Wv mike wrote:

We stayed in the great Smokey resort and this was in our cabin

I can identify with that; shortly after I moved out here and was living in a rented mobile home
(my first location) in East Mesa,
I got up at 3:00 AM for a whizz ! While standing there doing my business, I noticed some movement next to my right foot;
looking down to where I spotted the movement, I saw a box scorpion (nastiest ones in Arizona) about six inches from
my instep, so I stood motionless
for a little bit longer, finishing my
'business' ! When I was able to move again, I quickly moved my right foot away and went looking for it, boot in hand to swat with, but it had crawled back through the pipe-hole in the base of the
tub and disappeared ! Damn,
having found a black widow and
a scorpion in my home (two separate incidents, years apart)
really made my skin crawl !

Wv mike Loc: Parkersburg area. Wv

CamT wrote:

Was hunting somewhere in Texas a few years ago and... (show quote)

We have them in the fall I always called them garden spider that one was on the side of the house they are harmless they are kinda neat to throw a cricket in it’s web and watch. But not so neat for the cricket.

EasternOZ Loc: Kansas City Metro

Wv mike wrote:

We have them in the fall I always called them garden spider that one was on the side of the house they are harmless they are kinda neat to throw a cricket in it’s web and watch. But not so neat for the cricket.

We all gotta eat

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

I met a dude at urgent care a while back who was all bandaged up on his arm and shoulder pushing around one of them racks with a bag of fluids hooked up to one of his veins. Asked him what had happened. Said he was out fishing, wading through the thules and got bit by a spider. They were still tryin to save his arm. He didn't know what kind of spider. I'm thinking (hoping) that he just had a real bad reaction to something common that wouldn't bother me that much. Who knows?

plumbob Loc: New Windsor Maryland

Wv mike wrote:

We have them in the fall I always called them garden spider that one was on the side of the house they are harmless they are kinda neat to throw a cricket in it’s web and watch. But not so neat for the cricket.

We have these here to Mike. They are harmless like you say, but I insure that with the death penalty upon notification.

Big A Loc: Mesa, Arizona

plumbob wrote:

We have these here to Mike. They are harmless like you say, but I insure that with the death penalty upon notification.

I can assure you, spiders don't
last long at my house, either !

CamT Loc: La Porte, Texas

Wv mike wrote:

We have them in the fall I always called them garden spider that one was on the side of the house they are harmless they are kinda neat to throw a cricket in it’s web and watch. But not so neat for the cricket.

I figured it was harmless after I calmed down. They sure make the web bounce

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

Pretty sure all the deadly spiders live in the Southern Hemisphere, If you get bit by the Brazilian wandering (banana) spider, you die with an erection.

The CDB is Awesome Loc: Marshall, Madison County, North Carolina

Spiritof27 wrote:

Pretty sure all the deadly spiders live in the Southern Hemisphere, If you get bit by the Brazilian wandering (banana) spider, you die with an erection.

There's Pretty rough ones here to, The Black widow, and The Brown recluse,

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

Yeah, I got black widows all over my yard, have to watch for em. And they'll give you a nasty bite, make you sick, and the brown recluse is gives a really nasty bite also, but I don't think, unless you're really sensitive to it, either one will kill you. In Australia and South America they got spiders that will drop you and you don't get up.

Wv mike Loc: Parkersburg area. Wv

Spiritof27 wrote:

Yeah, I got black widows all over my yard, have to watch for em. And they'll give you a nasty bite, make you sick, and the brown recluse is gives a really nasty bite also, but I don't think, unless you're really sensitive to it, either one will kill you. In Australia and South America they got spiders that will drop you and you don't get up.

like the Sidney funnel web.

Spiritof27 Loc: Lincoln, CA

Exactly. Ya don't want one of them runnin up your arm or your pant leg.

Wv mike Loc: Parkersburg area. Wv

Yea them things got some fangs I watched a thing on the discovery channel where they were milking them to make anti venom

Rutinbuck Loc: Haysville, Kansas

Mike, I know what you’re talking about. When I lived in Hawaii I lived across the road from a sugar Cain field. They would burn the field right before they harvested the sugar cain. For the next week or so we would be over run with Cain spiders, they’re really u big and fast. I went to get some fertilizer and had one come flying out of the bag and ran up my arm and launched off my elbo. I about shit myself!

Kerry Hansen Loc: Bremerton, WA

Big A wrote:

Yes, it's a better weapon, but where was it when you needed
it ? Apparently NOT close to
hand, but a shovel MAY have
been close by and made a better weapon than a hammer ! (Yo !
I'm not thrilled with spiders (or
scorpions) either ! Found a black widow in my bathroom once, at 5:00 AM (in Virginia); wadded up some TP, wet it slightly in the sink for better grip, tossed the spider
in the toilet and peed on it before flushing ! I don't just dislike them;
I despise them !

PEEING on it did the trick, LOL. Wonder if my Saltshooter would do the trick?