Spiders

[GASoline71]

When I was in the little hole in the wall garage I built my '72 GMC in... a buddy was over and we were doin' a drum brake replacement, and when we pulled the right rear wheel off... there was a wolf spider about the size of a silver dollar wedged in there between the wheel and the drum (I have a pic of it,. Will post it if I can find it). We both about crapped our pants! My buddy smashed it with a ball peen hammer.

We have the brown recluse spiders around here as well. Always gotta check for them when headed out to the wood pile for the wood stove in winter. Yikes!

Gary

[brianthelion02]

I use carb cleaner on the black widows in my shop,but i think i will look into the demon xp!

[slim-n-none]

Originally Posted by brianthelion02

I use carb cleaner on the black widows in my shop,but i think i will look into the demon xp!

if you do decide to get some demon, do a google search for domyownpestcontrol.com discount code. I think last time I ordered I got a pound for $55 and then a $5 off coupon w/ free shipping. I spray inside and outside the house and garage and I don't see any kind of bugs anywhere..

[brianthelion02]

Thank you,i will do that!

Originally Posted by slim-n-none

if you do decide to get some demon, do a google search for domyownpestcontrol.com discount code. I think last time I ordered I got a pound for $55 and then a $5 off coupon w/ free shipping. I spray inside and outside the house and garage and I don't see any kind of bugs anywhere..

[So.Cal.Super]

Just saw this thread so I thought I would share my experience.

Over the last 3 weeks I have power washed my front end 3 times including just 3 days ago. (currently I have bare firewall, frame rails and front suspension only) two nights ago I disassembled all of the front suspension and left the hubs on the spindles to bring to work. (think lifting, holding against body, no gloves on placed in back of jeep and left sit over night) next morning I dropped them off with the mechanic at work so he could break them down cut my rotors, repack bearings and reassemble for me. (lifted out of jeep bare handed, carried 30 feet, set down and repeat.) When I came back in the afternoon to pick them up. He explains he steam cleaned them to get off what my power washer couldn't. He said between the backing plate and the hub of one. The largest black widow he had ever seen came out, ticked off and rearing up at him. after he blew it apart he decided to check the other one carefully. he found two in the other one between the plate and hub.... I was in shock and after apologizing for having no idea they were there, can not believe I didn't scare them out. Let alone not get Bit.

Just a wake up call for myself to use a little more caution.

[GASoline71]

Found the pic... how about this baby starin' at you when you remove a wheel?

Gary

[ETsC10]

Originally Posted by GASoline71

Found the pic... how about this baby starin' at you when you remove a wheel?

Gary

Yuck.
Looks like you have a good sized "lesser European House spider" (T. domestica).
They are also called the aggressive house spider.

These guys are related to the Hobos (tunnel weavers) but not really dangerous to humans.
When I was growing up, we called these wolf spiders but the actual wolf spiders are
generally not so patterned, very large and quite hairy.

Sometimes ID between Hobos and house spiders requires (at least) a very good hand lens.

The true Hobos I've seen have been fast, medium size spiders and their favorite haunt
seems to be around car undercarriages or wood piles.

BTW--if you can tolerate having these guys around, please leave them be.
Without these predators we would have a lot more problems with other bugs.

[GASoline71]

Originally Posted by ETsC10

Yuck.
Looks like you have a good sized "lesser European House spider" (T. domestica).
They are also called the aggressive house spider.

These guys are related to the Hobos (tunnel weavers) but not really dangerous to humans.
When I was growing up, we called these wolf spiders but the actual wolf spiders are
generally not so patterned, very large and quite hairy.

Sometimes ID between Hobos and house spiders requires (at least) a very good hand lens.

The true Hobos I've seen have been fast, medium size spiders and their favorite haunt
seems to be around car undercarriages or wood piles.

BTW--if you can tolerate having these guys around, please leave them be.
Without these predators we would have a lot more problems with other bugs.

Good info mang! I always thought these were Wolfies... never heard of a Hobo Spider. Thanks!

Gary

[ETsC10]

Originally Posted by GASoline71

Good info mang! I always thought these were Wolfies... never heard of a Hobo Spider...

Gary, its funny how we grow up learning names for things…I’ve always tended to
think of any big, scary spider as a wolf spider. Not.

Here in Western Washington, the ones to lookout for are the Brown Recluse (fiddler/fiddle back),
Hobos and Black Widows (yes, we have them too).
BTW- Brown Recluse spiders are quite common in many parts of the nation.

As Blazerman illustrated, concerning the lady who got bitten by a recluse, these
spiders are fairly common in homes, often in clothing & stored linens.
Shake things out before dressing!

Here’s a great medical entomology site (and some pics from that site)
I found that seems to have a lot less misinformation than most: Spiders

The following:
Hobo
Brown Recluse
Grass spider
Funnel web pic

[LEX]

Originally Posted by GASoline71

Found the pic... how about this baby starin' at you when you remove a wheel?

Gary

This pic made me pull my feet off the ground.


I'm going to look into the Demon WP, also.

[BlackedOut67shorty]

I remember when me and my dad were in the woods we saw a spider as big as your palm. And he said im not really afraid of 99 percent of the spiders out here, but that one would definatly be one that get stomped LOL

[woodwright]

Thanks. Now I'm itchy all over.
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[ETsC10]

you are quite welcome

[leddzepp]

Here is a new species just discovered in Oregon: http://news.yahoo.com/rare-discovery...211926504.html

[67lowered]

Originally Posted by leddzepp

Here is a new species just discovered in Oregon: http://news.yahoo.com/rare-discovery...211926504.html

hopefully that is Not the real size, looks about 3-4", wow, might catch the cat in its web, then uh-oh!

[ETsC10]

Originally Posted by CC69Rat

In the pics above, which one is the brown recluse?

The spider with the penny...nasty little buggers too!

Originally Posted by leddzepp

Here is a new species just discovered in Oregon: http://news.yahoo.com/rare-discovery...211926504.html

Thanks for the link Scott!
One article says these things might reach 3" with legs extended.
Sure would hate to get a face-full of that!

Whelp, there goes my career as a spelunker


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[Mike Bradbury]

I did a lot of caving in my younger years and a particular cave we would frequent in Kings Canyon had these large hairy brown cave spiders that had glowing eyes when your head lamp shown on them. They looked like real skinny tarantulas. The leg span was about 3" long and just as hairy as the tarantula but the body was much skinnier, they mostly clung to the ceiling in large numbers and would stay motionless unless you got to close and then they would dart off, they were quick too. Never researched what species they were but we tried to keep our distance, although sometimes it was unavoidable and you would have to try not to make sudden move and frighten them and cause a spider stampede.

To answer jhaymon's question; I am not afraid of spiders and I mostly let them do their work unless they set up shop in my thoroughfare. The last thing I want to do is be walking out to my truck and feel the circular web wrap around my face pinning a large hairy frightened spider to my nose. The brown widows I posted about are as good as toast if I see them, I have got too many animals and kids that I value too much to have a poisonous species in my yard.

[ETsC10]

Originally Posted by Mike Bradbury

...and cause a spider stampede...

OMG Mike!!! I about jumped out of my skin when you mentioned a spider stampede!!!!

Just a few minutes after my last post today, I was cleaning up some loose cardboard in my
parking lot and found this guy in the bucket.

You would have thought I would have been wearing gloves...I got lucky...THAT would
have scrwd up my week for sure!

ewwwwww........ ...and, yes, possibly a young Hobo. Very fast. Very dead.

[CC69Rat]

In the pics above, which one is the brown recluse?
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[ryanroo]

we have the wolf spiders ( my sister found one in the garage two nights ago about 2 1/2"-3" spread out) black widow, brown recluse, and a bunch of little harmless buggers. we also have tarantulas. for the most part i leave them alone if they are not in the house/garage. outside they get to live unless its a widow and in the direct vicinity of were i am working and i see egg sacks. they get all touchy when they have eggs. in the garage they get zapped with brake cleaner. i don't like being snuck up on and that is why they die in the garage.

the tarantulas are interesting and fun to watch as they cruise around. when they mate they will sometimes cover the road. hitting them int he car is weird

ryan

[big mike71]

After I read this tread I notice my cat staring at something under the dresser in my bedroom. I get a flashlight and look under there and it's a big spider, I tried to kill it but it got away. We called bug man the next day.

[motornut]

ichy already
a couple of found in's
we think the dog got bit or stung behind our trailer (where the brown one was)
he came up bitting/lickin his butt,looked to see a welt developing called the vet
they said mark it and watch it ,so i had to carry him around....
he was limping it bothered him so much
it burst/we cleaned it,it healed,even got a scar poor thing
got phone pics but you get the idea lol

webs make cool pics but thats all i wana see of them

[woodwright]

In the process of organizing the garage, and was finding several ugly spiders and a ton of little cockroach lookin things. 3 cans of fogger overnight and its all over.

[DirtyLarry]

Oh! I hate spiders!

Around here in the high desert we have a lot of Wolf spiders, Black widows and tarantulas. Luckily, I haven’t found any of these in the house or shop other than a Wolf spider in the shop once. We are now in tarantula migration season so they are often seen in late August through October. They scare the hell out of you when you see them but they are harmless. I read where they live to be quite old, like 20 years, so I don’t kill them…..just lay a pan shovel down and let them crawl on then give them a ride out into the open field next to the shop. Most people had no idea there are tarantulas in Colorado. I grew up in town and had no idea we had these on the outskirts of town until we move out to the boonies.

This one was on our back patio last August.


This one was on the shop window a couple years ago. I had gone into the garage to smoke a cigarette and while lighting it up I looked out the window only to find this big thing staring right at me. I screamed like a little girl as I couldn’t tell if it was inside the shop or outside.


Yet another that was crawling on the house in the fall of 2009


Another in the grass a few years ago

[ETsC10]

Originally Posted by DirtyLarry

Oh! I hate spiders!

Around here in the high desert we have a lot of Wolf spiders, Black widows and tarantulas. Luckily, I haven’t found any of these in the house or shop other than a Wolf spider in the shop once. We are now in tarantula migration season so they are often seen in late August through October. They scare the hell out of you when you see them but they are harmless. I read where they live to be quite old, like 20 years, so I don’t kill them…..just lay a pan shovel down and let them crawl on then give them a ride out into the open field next to the shop. Most people had no idea there are tarantulas in Colorado. I grew up in town and had no idea we had these on the outskirts of town until we move out to the boonies.

This one was on our back patio last August.


This one was on the shop window a couple years ago. I had gone into the garage to smoke a cigarette and while lighting it up I looked out the window only to find this big thing staring right at me. I screamed like a little girl as I couldn’t tell if it was inside the shop or outside.


Yet another that was crawling on the house in the fall of 2009


Another in the grass a few years ago

Being a dyed-in-the-wool arachnophobiac, this may sound weird but I think
the tarantulas are kinda cool. Worked with a kid a few years back that had
one for a pet and the bugger would climb all over his arm & hand, calm as
could be.


He offered it to me and I should have taken him up on it…might have helped
calm my phobia.


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