spider scare….

[Benchrest Braxton]

ya’ll making me pretty happy (for once) i live in PA. We do have brown recluse, but they are quite rare. For those of you that have literal tarantulas where you live, god bless you. I think I would literally die if one snuck up on me. I almost wrecked my truck over a pencil eraser sized one last year.

 

[46and2]

 

[6MMsteve]

I had a feeling somebody was going to post a spider story for months now....it's posted... I keep my plane irons in socks I took one out one day to do a touchup and a big green spider came out...I about shit myself

 

[46and2]

Come on guys! What would your forefathers think! Lol.
They cleared this great land for fields, day in day out with arachnids all around them.

 

[Fast14riot]

How can you not like these guys! Just look how cute he is! Found this beautiful specimen of Phidippus audax at work a while back. These guys get reasonably big, about an inch nose to tail. Kinda tickles when they crawl on you. Cool thing about these jumping spiders, they have incredibly well developed, stereoscopic vision as they are sight hunters.

Widows I usually leave them be, unless I find them in the house, then they're relocated outside. Something else about widows, if you start seeing them in the open, that means all the good hiding spots are taken.

 

[46and2]

How can you not like these guys! Just look how cute he is! Found this beautiful specimen of Phidippus audax at work a while back. These guys get reasonably big, about an inch nose to tail. Kinda tickles when they crawl on you. Cool thing about these jumping spiders, they have incredibly well developed, stereoscopic vision as they are sight hunters.

Widows I usually leave them be, unless I find them in the house, then they're relocated outside. Something else about widows, if you start seeing them in the open, that means all the good hiding spots are taken.

View attachment 1442148

They're pretty cool. Had one on my bench, he caught a fly. I missed about 15 min of shooting watching him.

 

[Capt. Oblivious]

Let me introduce you guys to something that makes you see your ancestors when you bump into one

 

[Kiwishooter]

I'm glad I live in NZ, no snakes, no poisonous spiders, no scorpions......worst thing we have is politicians which we can't seem to get rid of

 

[dgeesaman]

I can be usually careful opening boxes that are shipped to me
from southern and south west states. Couple of years ago, I
pulled some used sets of pistol dies sent to me from Arizona.
They were packed in peanuts and mixed in was some spider
webbing. Makes ya' feel alive.....

When I worked in the hydropower industry we received a shipment of a 150MW generator rotor - I think it had a 30” bore. This came from Brazil and when we opened the crating water had gotten in and pushed the plastic wrap in the bore down into a pocket shape. The whole pocket had some freaky big spiders who were desperate to climb out.

 

[dgeesaman]

He said you haven’t lived until you smell singed stinkbug!

Had one of them fly into my mouth while I was out riding. They don’t taste any better than they smell.

 

[dgeesaman]

ya’ll making me pretty happy (for once) i live in PA. We do have brown recluse, but they are quite rare. For those of you that have literal tarantulas where you live, god bless you. I think I would literally die if one snuck up on me. I almost wrecked my truck over a pencil eraser sized one last year.

We do have ticks chock full of Lyme disease. I wish our winters would kill them off.

 

[dhagerty40]

Spiders never bothered me. Had this tarantula (about 5" long) follow me around the range when I was setting up targets one day...

 

[Benchrest Braxton]

We do have ticks chock full of Lyme disease. I wish our winters would kill them off.

where you at in PA? i’m in northumberland county.

the ticks have been so bad lately, never had so many on me in my life this past hunting season….

 

[Benchrest Braxton]

Spiders never bothered me. Had this tarantula (about 5" long) follow me around the range when I was setting up targets one day...View attachment 1442187

i would die, literally……

 

[divingin]

ya’ll making me pretty happy (for once) i live in PA. We do have brown recluse, but they are quite rare. For those of you that have literal tarantulas where you live, god bless you. I think I would literally die if one snuck up on me. I almost wrecked my truck over a pencil eraser sized one last year.

Different than California. According to the arachnid experts, we have no brown recluses here (though a few may show up in peoples moves and shipped equipment and such.) Yet everyone here knows someone who has had a close call or been bitten by one. Go figure.

 

[D-4297]

Been married four times . Not sure if those are "BAD" choices on my part , or "Theirs" . But all four were Red-heads ! The last one has put up with me for thirty-three years , and I still adore that Babe !

 

[Fast14riot]

Different than California. According to the arachnid experts, we have no brown recluses here (though a few may show up in peoples moves and shipped equipment and such.) Yet everyone here knows someone who has had a close call or been bitten by one. Go figure.

Yeah, the Desert Recluse is native here and its bite causes the same symptoms as the Brown recluse. I had a buddy get bit by one in San Diego, nasty festering wound and he could hardly walk straight for a short while after.

 

[dave@aDave]

If I remember correctly, a human is never more that 4 feet away from a spider.
Also, more people are killed each year by jellyfish than by spiders.

 

[divingin]

Also, more people are killed each year by jellyfish than by spiders.

Yeah; they carry knives.

 

[Leo Smith]

Got bit by this one.. just got cramps and headaches.. Wasn't as bad as the rattler that got me in 75..