texas recluse spider
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Oct 29, 2018 17:53:00 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
👍 OK to squish.
Agree, except with me it would go out drunk. In a vial of 70% ethyl alcohol.THEN I might take a picture.I found one in AAco. Md.in 1980. Had people tell me they were not in Md. Found three more in Md.since. They are spreading. We are the vector.
I do suffer from aracnophobia a bit. Can handle turantulas, but the small ones give me the willie's. Same as Scutigera coleoptera. Never liked those things. If you have a set of the soft touch tweezers used in film developing, they are great for grabbing wasps, centipedes, biting true bugs, stink bugs, you get the idea.
Nicely shot.
Bill
Oct 29, 2018 19:13:32 #
newtoyou wrote:
Agree, except with me it would go out drunk. In a ... (show quote)
Other way around for me. Not a fan of big spiders, even tarantulas, since I had some near-bites from one (a tempermental pet), and a really bad bite with a large wolf spider. But little ones I am happy to handle. Same with house centipedes. the little ones are not a problem at all but the big ones still make me nervous. I have not tried to handle those even though my head tells me they are not inclined to bite and their poison claws are really very weak.
As a youngster I would handle anything without fear. But that was when I had those not-so-nice experiences.
Oct 29, 2018 21:54:10 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
Other way around for me. Not a fan of big spiders,... (show quote)
about all i handle is jumpers
Oct 29, 2018 22:15:00 #
I have been bitten by jumpers and crab spiders, a Reduviidae, the wheel bug. Stung by baldfaced hornets and smaller wasps. The wheelbug was worst. Palm of left hand. Was necrotic for at least three weeks. The spiders least painful, or long lasting. Still, we all differ. My scorpions and turantulas were shown, thus handled(by me. No kids) a lot. I learned how to not upset them. First was to overcome fear. Then easy. Have seen results of a pissaurid bite on the back of the hand on a ten year old boy. Nasty blister silver dollar size. Ice and antibiotics were the MD's call. And Benadryl for swelling. Heard a firsthand experience with a black widow. Knocked a healthy man on his posterior for two months. Try not to be bitten. Night, all
Bill
Bill
Oct 30, 2018 07:27:48 #
I thought I was the only one around here to be uncomfortable with the bigger spiders so now I don't feel so bad about it. Nice picture Tom, it looks quite inocuous, perhaps it is a young one.
Oct 30, 2018 08:51:36 #
Glad I don't see any around here even though we supposedly have them. Plenty of Black Widows around here though. I handle lots of insects, but that said, I know which ones to avoid and do so... Nice capture btw, what did you use to capture it?....
Oct 30, 2018 10:06:07 #
Screamin Scott wrote:
Glad I don't see any around here even though we supposedly have them. Plenty of Black Widows around here though. I handle lots of insects, but that said, I know which ones to avoid and do so... Nice capture btw, what did you use to capture it?....
i keep plastic pill bottles everywhere,even on my lawn mower.i just put the bottle over it,when it climbs up i put the lid on it.
Oct 30, 2018 10:11:29 #
tinusbum wrote:
i keep plastic pill bottles everywhere,even on my lawn mower.i just put the bottle over it,when it climbs up i put the lid on it.
I've got some of those, plus unused specimen bottles from the Urologists office & also larger Tic-Tac containers that I take along with me when walking the dog to capture whatever I may find...
Oct 30, 2018 18:16:59 #
Great shot. Good that you found it instead of it finding you. The ones we have here are also quite nasty to come across should they happen to bite.
Oct 30, 2018 18:17:00 #
Great shot. Good that you found it instead of it finding you. The ones we have here are also quite nasty to come across should they happen to bite.
Oct 30, 2018 18:45:34 #
EnglishBrenda wrote:
I thought I was the only one around here to be uncomfortable with the bigger spiders so now I don't feel so bad about it. Nice picture Tom, it looks quite inocuous, perhaps it is a young one.
they dont near as bad as you would expect,unless you know what they are. all brown recluses look like killers to me
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