A Chart You May Want To DL !
Jul 6, 2022 17:29:42 #
JRiepe wrote:
The brown recluse, aka fiddler because of the fiddle shape on its head and thorax, is very common in our area but I've yet to see one in my house.🤞🤞 This picture of one was taken inside my parent's house.
Excellent image !! It is one of the best I have ever seen.
Jul 6, 2022 21:28:07 #
RodeoMan
Loc: St Joseph, Missouri
The two-legged vermin of the variety homo sapiens has caused incredibly more damage to mother earth than any done by our arachnid cousins.
Jul 6, 2022 22:22:31 #
Boone wrote:
or...maybe not!!!
Cool chart. I copied it. Would be interesting to know what is eating the insects that annoy me. However I head butt most of the spider webs at night and never know what is crawling on me. So far they have not gotten too mad about me destroying their webs (by accident).
No insecticides allowed here.
Boris
Jul 7, 2022 10:14:46 #
By the time I get that close to a spider to identify it, it's either long gone, or it's already attacked me, and I begin hoping that I don't die.
Jul 7, 2022 14:37:48 #
TheShoe
Loc: Lacey, WA
What is missing from the chart is whether a spider is aggressive. For example, the wolf spiders are generally non-aggressive unless cornered.
Jul 7, 2022 15:41:48 #
SteveFranz
Loc: Durham, NC
A lady I worked with about 30 years ago was bitten by a brown recluse spider. When I first saw her afterwards I thought she had been in a serious car wreck. Her face looked like someone had given her hammer massage!
Jul 7, 2022 22:16:06 #
fourlocks wrote:
That's kind of a broad statement describing an entire population based on a single member. The majority of spiders (and insects in general) are either beneficial or harmless. We have jumping spiders in our house (about the size of your fingernail) that eat flies and mosquitoes and they don't spin webs that become dust webs. They hang around our windows and houseplants and I carefully avoid bothering them when I vacuum or dust. We get along just fine.
We do the same! Agree, most insects are a beneficial part of our world, don't panic.
Jul 7, 2022 22:19:28 #
Had to correct my own reply, spiders are not insects! But still crucial to the order of the ecosystem.
Jul 8, 2022 03:57:56 #
TheShoe
Loc: Lacey, WA
Muddyvalley wrote:
In your list supplied by a termite company.....
The word 'Toxic' is incorrect. The word they are trying to say is 'Venomous'.
The word 'Toxic' is incorrect. The word they are trying to say is 'Venomous'.
And all spiders are venomous; however, not all spiders are deadly or, for that matter, even dangerous to humans. Only a few fall into those categories.
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