Watch your step (snakes)!

[NotDeadYet]

brown recluse spiders like mr. aggb so much he's been bitten 3X.

I recently had the plumber, and he found three brown recluses living in the bathroom.

 

[NoHall]

I recently had the plumber, and he found three brown recluses living in the bathroom.

Did they put the seat down?

 

[aggieb]

I recently had the plumber, and he found three brown recluses living in the bathroom.

he was bitten once, working in the yard, that same day he was weed eating and a small rock flew up his nostril lol: sorry i know that's not funny, but it sorta kinda is now), went to the emergency room so both were treated then. the next bite i've forgotten, i'm thinking it was when he was at his golf course, and the next time he was checking the water source for irrigation and he saw the spider after the fact. they are scary looking bites, really gross. thank goodness he had it checked out in time before it got really bad. he has scarring, but it could have been alot worse.

 

[Geo]

I can deal with the thought and sight of snakes. Spiders on the other hand...



This thread is giving me the willies!

 

[DD]

snakes like to hang out on trails because their prey also use trails. Speaking of looking out for wildlife in your path, yesterday, I had wildlife in my sandal. I was walking in the yard, and thought I got a stick in my sandal. I shook my shoe, loosely on my foot, but the stick never came out. I waited until I got back to the porch, then tried to shake it out again. It was lodged under my toes. I slipped my foot out of the sandal and what do I see? I big@ss Wolf Spider! I shook him out, and he was still alive, but I noticed some "juice" in the bottom of my shoe. Not sure if he tried to poop on my or whether I squashed him a little. Either way, that part was gross. I got pics for RiverOtter, but still in camera.

Can't wait to see the pics. This (almost) same thing happened to my friend Summer. She lives in "the country". Her dog got out and ran to the neighbors. She ran out and slipped on some house shoes of her husband's that were on the porch and chased the dog. She said when she got to the neighbors, she felt something in her shoe, but decided to wait til she walked back home to check it out. She got home and shook the shoe. A big toad fell out and hopped away. :shock:

he was bitten once, working in the yard, that same day he was weed eating and a small rock flew up his nostril lol: sorry i know that's not funny, but it sorta kinda is now), went to the emergency room so both were treated then. the next bite i've forgotten, i'm thinking it was when he was at his golf course, and the next time he was checking the water source for irrigation and he saw the spider after the fact. they are scary looking bites, really gross. thank goodness he had it checked out in time before it got really bad. he has scarring, but it could have been alot worse.

Wow. I'd say he had a bad day that first time. Sorry, but I did sorta laugh too.

 

[dmarie]

My girl always alerts me to snakes by a very distinctive bark. I heard it yesterday and sure enough, it was another pygmy rattler. I know they're around here but I generally only see maybe one a year. To date, this is the third.

 

[AAbsolute]

Black Widows

Yes, watch your step, your shoes and where you are about to put your hands too!

I have one of the garden hose thingees, where you crank the handle to roll up your hose..it has a hinged top so you can get to the hose if needed. It sits outside the door and we use it to hose off our feet prior to entry. The shoes usually get left out beside it when they are sandy.

A couple of weeks ago I saw the hose needed to be replaced, unwound the hose, flipped open the lid and reached down to disconnect the old hose. When my hand got about 6 inches away from the coupling I see a black widow resting on the side of it. Scary stuff when you come close to grabbing a black widow, or leaving your shoes right next to its home.

Did I see in another thread somewhere that you sold your Seacrest home?

About the Black Widows. I bet I have seen 20 Black Widows, but always in the same place, inside those black boxes that contain the water meter. There has got to be something to the darkness and the water source. This is in line with your post exactly.

 

[Matt J]

I recently had the plumber, and he found three brown recluses living in the bathroom.

Do you really want to put that out in public? :funn:

 

[barefootguy]

This must be the time of year for wolf spiders. They've been hanging out right outside our doors after dark, and I've been finding at least two a day inside. They're all about the size of a quarter.

I've noticed that black widows like to hang out on either side of the garage door (in the garage), under lawn/pool chairs, and on aluminum ladders. The first thing I notice is the really strong web, then I find the spider.

 

[Smiling JOe]

I have spiders everywhere. The biggest are the Golden Silk Spiders, and I have two which are over 4" in diameter (including legs). They are my door guards. There are Wolf Spider holes all over my yard, so it isn't too weird that one slipped into my sandal while walking in the yard. At night, you can wear a head-mount flash light and see spider eyes reflecting all over the place. It is like going into a small animal zoo. Praying Mantes, Lubber Grasshoppers, Skinks, Eastern Fence lizards, spiders of all types, crabs, etc, and plenty of those biting bugs.

door guard (Golden-Silk Spider)