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I just got a Black Widow!
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I just got a Black Widow!
No, not the engine. I just returned from Walmart after getting some cheese and Saltines to go with the chili I've got in the pot, and as I got out of my car I saw a Black Widow carrying an egg sack, spinning a web next to the garage door. I haven't seen a Black Widow spider in decades. I guess I'll have to get used to them down here. Anyway, I called my wife over so she could see it. She asked if I wanted her to swat it with her broom, but I told her I'd get it. So I grabbed a book that is in the corner on top of the Goodwill pile and got it with that.
So, I got a Black Widow today.
The Librarian Mark
So, I got a Black Widow today.
The Librarian Mark
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Re: I just got a Black Widow!
Poor spiders are the damnedest creatures with their ugly look...what may have driven Nature's hands in evolving an insect so obnoxious?
The only animal that indeed gives me a goosebump by its sheer looks, no matter big or small..
The only animal that indeed gives me a goosebump by its sheer looks, no matter big or small..
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Re: I just got a Black Widow!
balogh wrote:Poor spiders are the damnedest creatures with their ugly look...what may have driven Nature's hands in evolving an insect so obnoxious?
The only animal that indeed gives me a goosebump by its sheer looks, no matter big or small..


I take the opposite view Andras.
Mom always told me "Never kill a spider in the house." Never understood that until I learned much later that they are predators preying on other insects and their eggs. I have been known to pick them up with a tissue and usher them out of the house.
Occasionally I find one of these in the basement.

Wolf spider, ugly but harmless. They can slide under doors quite easily.
West Virginia has very few insects compared to Florida where living with scorpians was a daily occurence.
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Re: I just got a Black Widow!
I do not hate nor kill them Bob - in fact I do not kill any animal except mosqitoes when they feed on my blood - , just instinctively withdraw when encountering them...
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Re: I just got a Black Widow!
balogh wrote:I do not hate nor kill them Bob - in fact I do not kill any animal except mosqitoes when they feed on my blood - , just instinctively withdraw when encountering them...


Many scorpians have met their maker under my shoe Andras, One never got me but I knew those that had. Not a pleasent experience. When we moved to Maryland, unpacking the TV we found one inside. Well passed.
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