A Saved Life (Page 2): Thanks, Brenda. I'm hoping that it remembers me when I take my camera out to the bushes looking for it :sm08:...

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

EnglishBrenda wrote:

On download that is a beautiful image of the spider, well done for saving it and for getting such a nice result.

Thanks, Brenda. I'm hoping that it remembers me when I take my camera out to the bushes looking for it

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

ecobin wrote:

Glad you didn't need to do mouth to mouth! Great photo, Gary.

Thanks, and ACTUALLY....I was a lifeguard at Turner's Camp which was owned by a German Social Club that believed it fitness of both body and mind. During my years there I pulled a few out of the deep end although lucky that it was not much more than assisting them. It is very, very scary going in to help someone who is in a panic for they are more likely to drown you than themselves. I'd swim the float to them and then tug them to the ladder at the edge.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

napabob wrote:

Nice one......

Thanks, Napabob. I'm eagerly waiting to see some of your spider images that I have come to know you by.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

sirvive wrote:

Nice shot and great information. Here is an another dirt dauber nest (pipe organ mud dauber) that does the same. Spiders are stuffed into approximately 1-inch sections. Pictured tubes are about 5 inches long. The dirt daubers "sing" while they doing the construction inside. Kudos to you also for your appreciation of the natural world.

Way cool..! thanks for sharing for I have not seen that type of dauber here.

Mark Sturtevant Loc: Grand Blanc, MI

e jones, you definitely will have black widows and fiddleback (recluse) spiders where you are. For an assessment how how many widows you have, I can suggest you go outside at night with a flashlight, and look around in the garage, shed, and around the outside of the house. I did that once as a kid around my grandparents' house in California.
I am still astonished to this day how many there were! 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

Mark Sturtevant wrote:

e jones, you definitely will have black widows and fiddleback (recluse) spiders where you are. For an assessment how how many widows you have, I can suggest you go outside at night with a flashlight, and look around in the garage, shed, and around the outside of the house. I did that once as a kid around my grandparents' house in California.
I am still astonished to this day how many there were! 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷

Mark, I've found that it is an entirely different world at night. It's much like working at a factory...the day shift goes home and the night shift starts.

ejones0310 Loc: Tulsa, OK

Mark Sturtevant wrote:

e jones, you definitely will have black widows and fiddleback (recluse) spiders where you are. For an assessment how how many widows you have, I can suggest you go outside at night with a flashlight, and look around in the garage, shed, and around the outside of the house. I did that once as a kid around my grandparents' house in California.
I am still astonished to this day how many there were! 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷

We have a local pest control company who’s tag line is, “Sleeping with spiders?” I use them for pest control and the only spiders I find are the brown garden spiders all curled up. If I have black widows in my house, I’d be on the phone to the pest control company for a respray.

When I was a teenager, 16 or 17, I was bitten by a brown recluse. My parents never used pest control.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

ejones0310 wrote:

We have a local pest control company who’s tag line is, “Sleeping with spiders?” I use them for pest control and the only spiders I find are the brown garden spiders all curled up. If I have black widows in my house, I’d be on the phone to the pest control company for a respray.

When I was a teenager, 16 or 17, I was bitten by a brown recluse. My parents never used pest control.

The Brown Recluse has small fangs and most often folks don't realize that they have been bitten until days later when the red lump appears. Their venom is pretty hot stuff that dissolves flesh (and the innards of their prey) that turns them into spider soup helping aid their digestion.

Add to the fact that they are experts at hiding and hunting they get unknowingly pick up and that's how we most often have our encounters with them. The black widow builds a helter-skelter web unlike the ornate intricate ones of orb weavers. As web dewlers we are less likely to come into conflict with them compared to the Brown Recluse.

ejones0310 Loc: Tulsa, OK

sippyjug104 wrote:

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The only way we knew it was a brown recluse is I rolled over on him and smashed him. Our garage was on the other side of that wall and it had a population of several hundred of them. I’m not sure why dad didn’t spray. We had DDT back then. The bite didn’t show up right away, but swelled up over the next week and got hot. My entire upper arm was affected. Over the course of the next year, the venom worked on my arm and one day the bite burst open and black goo ran down my arm. I now have a large invention where the bite was.

sippyjug104 Loc: Missouri

ejones0310 wrote:

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Ouch..! The same thing happened to my Brother-in-Law. He developed a red spot, then a lump, then pain and fever. The doctor lanced the bite and cleaned out the goo and packed it with gauze and give him antibiotics. He had to flush it wound cavity and repack it every day until it stopped oozing. He has a divot and a scar and he had no idea that he had been bitten before it was far too late.