Posted on 03/07/2012 5:27:55 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
Kill it with fire...
I often freak people out by picking up Wolf Spiders.
I don’t like killing them, because as the article says, they are our friends.
I always save a spider’s life too. Scoop them in a cup and put them outside. I don’t know if all of them are friendly though. Not really sure if we have any super deadly types in CO. Anyway, we’ve never had any problems with any of them.
I have stood at the flood edge on a roadway at night and seen the guardrail absolutely swarming with spiders and centipedes and insects and pillbugs, all glistening in the headlights, and bet on the spiders to be the last ones standing - imagine having to pull yourself to safety along that guardrail.
But to see the trees cocooned with webbing like that - that farm must be surrounded with standing water. Creepy, creepy, creepy.
I live in the Boulder area and hike the Greenbelt Plateau and Flatirons Vista open space.
Wolf spiders were everywhere along the trail. I never knew that wolf spiders could get that big. One was four inches across. He was an aggressive little guy. He chased my walking stick when I put it in front of him.
I didn’t see any webs. They hide in holes and ambush. Pretty certain that they were wolf spiders.
I have lived in Colorado all of my life and didn’t know this.
They are. Even black widows serve a purpose. However, their bite can make someone really sick so I kill them. Sad, but better than one of my family members getting bit.
"What appears to be snow is actually spider webs blanketing an Australian farm. (Daniel Munoz/Reuters)"
"Hellllp meeee! Helllllp meeeee!"
We have Brown Recluse and Hobo spiders in CO which can cause a terrible wound and make you sick for weeks but I have never seen one to my knowledge. I scoop them up and toss them outside alive also.
I hate that farm! lol
Holy crap....Nuke it from orbit, already.
“Just the small life, Master. Hee Hee Heeeeeee”
—Renfield
” The Fly “ ?
Wolfs, and Tarantulas, are GOOD spiders. They are our friends. I’d never harm a hair on their bodies. I know from experience: You keep a couple of these on your porch, and you’ll never see a cricket or roach.
They scare the snot out of uninformed people, though.
I have a friend who lost a patch of skin about the size of a hand to a brown recluse bite.
Another friend got bit twice living in a loft apartment at a warehouse.
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