I just killed

[Baja Margie]

six big black widows in the garage. I took a flashlight and a can of raid and launched a nighttime offensive.

[qnr]

congratulations. I'm lucky, haven't run into any black widows

or hobo spiders recently.

[yardwork]

7. What's a hobo spider?

[qnr]

12. This is from the site of a spider trap that we use, so some of the

images are a little graphic. That's to make you want to buy the traps, but the information is pretty good.

http://www.hobospider.com/info/index.html

[progmom]

15. Any chance you could pull some of the text from here?

I'm too askeered to look at the pictures.

[yardwork]

29. Hobo spiders are very similar to Brown Recluse spiders

Nasty critters. I don't like spiders. I know they are helpful and I appreciate all living things blah blah blah but I don't like spiders!

[qnr]

40. Here is a little of it.

Identify a Hobo Spider

Hobo Spiders are brown and measure roughly 12 to 18 mm in length. Their legs show no distinct rings and have short hairs. Their abdomens have several chevron shaped markings. Males are distinctively different from females in that they have two large palps that look like boxing gloves. These palps are often mistaken for fangs or venom sacs, but they are in fact the male genitalia. The females also have these palps, but the ends are not 'swollen' as they are on the males. Females tend to have a larger abdomen when compared to males.

Where did they come from?

Tegenaria agrestis, also called the Hobo Spider as well as the Aggressive House Spider (AHS), has been suspected of presiding in the United States as early as the 1920's and 1930's. Originally from Europe, the Hobo Spider is a species foreign to the United States. They are believed to have been transported to the United States via shipping lanes and ended up in Seattle, Washington. Since then they have slowly expanded throughout the Northwestern United States and Western Canada. Despite their increasing range and population, public awareness of these spiders has been surprisingly low, primarily because the Brown Recluse Spider has been inaccurately blamed for the bites that people receive from Hobo Spiders.

Don't want to break the rules and post too much

[Skink]

1. As long as it wasn't a thread....

[ET Awful]

2. I was always terrified of black widows, but I never liked killing them

because they are such cool lookin' spiders. I mean yeah, they look evil, but in a "cool" evil/Darth Vader kind of way :)

I never had any remorse about killing say . . . brown recluses, 'cause they're just ugly bastards, but black widows are just kind of evil pretty with that shiny black color and all.

[shesemsmom]

3. OH YUCK

I'll never will forget the spider bigger than MY HAND> that went behind my stove. I called our local state park to send a ranger. They laughed at me. I got him in a jar, BY MYSELF and put the lid on it and that is where he died. Sorry, I just couldn't squash it. You need to be fumigated!!

[progmom]

13. You had a spider bigger than your hand...

...in Indiana???

Oh shit. That scares the pants off me.

[shesemsmom]

19. I think my Hubby called it a wood spider

or a wolf spider. Anyway it scared the shit out of me. I had a infant in the house and I wanted it out, They said it wasn't dangerous, but I didn't care. Yes it was Bigger than my hand.I used a large quart jar to rustle it into and he didn't go peacefully.

[progmom]

22. yuck yuck yuck

Props to you for being able to do that.

[shesemsmom]

32. I assumed it was me

or it. I was alone except for the baby and I couldn't get a ranger, but mind you I didn't even live in the park. I just thought it was wild life and If they wanted it to live they would come and get it. The Hubby was a work and he wouldn't deal with it anyway. I either had to get it out or move out ( which was an attractive option at that moment) If it had been a rat or a snake they could have had the place. I haven't ever had either, but I have long ago decided it I ever had such an encounter, that was to be the plan. Move out and send for the stuff later!!!!

[yardwork]

30. We used to catch those in Ohio when we were kids

They were big furry reddish-brown spiders that looked sort of like tarantulas. They aren't poisonous but they sure look scary.

We called them wolf spiders.

[shesemsmom]

35. Yes that would be him. Red, eight legs and hairy.

I NEVER want to see another one.

[LynzM]

4. Ooooh.... yuck.

:scared: Glad none of them got you!

[Baja Margie]

5. Yea,

they breed out here, everyone has them, fumigation only slows them down a little. I hate them.

[yardwork]

6. Good for you! I don't trust Raid, though

They're not dead until I've stomped them with wooden clogs or a metal shovel, as far as I'm concerned.

They infest our garage and crawl spaces. I hate em.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

8. Should have called Woody Allen... it would have been amusing

or at least it was in Annie Hall

[autorank]

21. Did Woody have sex with the spiders? The baby ones right?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

23. Only the ones he adoped with Mia Farrow... come on, the man

has _some_standards.

[autorank]

24. Keeping it all in the family. I love Woody Allen sarcasm on DU!

[Webster Green]

9. Enough killing already!

What beautiful creatures. Its sad that you felt so threatened by them.

I am a lot more creeped out by people wielding cans of aeorosol poison than the arachnids that share the planet with us.

-A tree-hugger

[MichaelHarris]

11. even after a

brown recluse bites you on the ass while sitting in a wooden outhouse? The way i look at it, that's the spider's house, your ass was just visiting.

[tyedyeto]

16. I had a brown recluse semi-living in my mailbox....

I was afraid to get my mail when I got home after dark since I couldn't see him/her lurking there.

Are you saying that I should have left that artificial environment alone for the spider to enjoy??? He/she would've been much happier in a natural spot, don't ya think?

[MichaelHarris]

18. nawww the moral of the story

is look under the lid before ploppin' the ass down.

[tyedyeto]

26. No ass here.....

just trying to get my mail..........LOL

Did have an outhouse years ago tho. No mean 'n ugly spiders livin' in it tho.

[MichaelHarris]

31. a number of years ago I drove the Alaskan highway

and this one place I camped at had outhouses, I had this fear of the whole "dangling testicle" thing so I checked, sure enough a spider big enough to crack a coconut. Man I'm shivering thinking about it.

[tyedyeto]

36. Camped in many places over the years with those..........

moonshaped doors.

Once one had a hornet's nest in it...... found a bush/shrub instead. (Not neccessarily the */shrub that is found in sooooooo many threads on this site.....LOL)

[MichaelHarris]

42. 70's

porn bush? Has that been banned in the lounge yet?

[tyedyeto]

43. ROTFLMAO......not that I know of yet...

but ya never know. LOL

[MichaelHarris]

44. reminds

me of Don King in a leg lock

[tyedyeto]

48. Ewwwwwwwwwww...

ugly pics in the brain.

Exorcise them please!!!!!

[MichaelHarris]

49. that was bad huh?

nows all I have in my head is 70's porn soundtracks...Bowwww a chickaaa wowooow chickaaa wowwwwa

[tyedyeto]

50. It was the Don King reference...

but some of the those soundtracks..............they all sounded alike to me

[Webster Green]

25. I re-locate them when they get too close for comfort....

I do the same with moths when they get into my reading light.

I don't believe that these creatures are so inferior that they don't deserve to live.

Like I said, I'm a tree-hugger. We realize that we are connected to the plants and critters that share our environment.

edited to add: "mmm-kay?"

[tyedyeto]

28. I an basically a tree-hugger.........

but when it comes down to my 'living' space, I can get queasy.

A couple of months ago, my s/o found 2 rattlers in the back yard....... called 911 who took them off the property and relocated them within 2 miles of the house.

Edit for spelling

[Webster Green]

39. I killed a couple of huge rattlesnakes a while back....

They were coming up on the deck right outside the froont door. That was about fifteen years ago, and it really made me sad to do it. I've had the decision to kill or re-locate them since then, and chose to move them.

[MichaelHarris]

10. I am totally offended

spiders have feelings and now some baby spiders will have no mommas. Just kidding, squish da crap out of the little buggers.

[roguevalley]

14. I grew up with a houseful of the bastards. I will never forget opening

my covers and seeing a big one in my bed, or the two that were fighting that fell out of my bathroom cabinet onto the sink. God, I hate them passionately. Good for you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My cats liked to bring them in and play ball with them. I could have
died.

[MichaelHarris]

17. One bit my dog recently

he looked like a zombie, walking dead open meat wound on his back. I call him George Romero now.

[autorank]

20. Did you beat them with the flashlight and huff the Raid?

[MichaelHarris]

33. hahaahhahahaahahha

man thats funny

[48pan]

27. Yuk!

We have Brown Recluse spiders around here. I've never seen a widow.

[yardwork]

34. You know them when you see them

Nothing else looks like a Black Widow. They aren't all black - some are brown, or tan, or even white - but they all have that big humped back, crooked legs, and shiny skin. Oooooh.

[48pan]

37. An advantage of living in the great white north...

Very few poisonous bugs and snakes.

[yardwork]

38. You have polar bears

[MichaelHarris]

45. thats

without a doubt the funniest thing I've read today LOL, good one

[donheld]

41. You used a WMD on a little spider?

I'm telling PETA



haha

[MichaelHarris]

46. hahahahaha

that's funny

[Robeson]

47. Know what you mean....I found one in my garage just last week...