Mindless blabbering, just a big spider

Tony Shelton

Tony Shelton

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We see black widows around here all summer. I bet I could go outside and in the garage and count 15 of them around. But this is the biggest one I've ever seen. It jumped out of a rag I pulled out of a bucket.

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You should have seen how high I jumped first time I pulled a Scorpion out of the bucket.
 
I can usually deal with scorpions, just not on work site.
 
I killed on this earlier this summer,,,,largest one I have ever seen but dont think it was as big as that one!!!
 
Black widows are bad around here too. Your right for some reason they like the garage. Started to learn not to leave boots, shoes, gloves anything you put body parts into. They will be in there!

At my last house I had a row of rose bushes in the back yard. My dog would not stay out of them. Would see widows in there all the time. I finally put liter fluid on them and just burned them up. Just so the dog wouldn't get bit.
 
We clean 800 seat outdoor auditorium every 2 months and you talk about big blackwidows. man you should see me or my crew freakout when you hit there webs around all the seats they go flying everywhere even had one on my shoulder once, talk about ebee jeebees....:eek:uttahere:
 
We saw this guy on a hiking trail at Red Rock last year. Max wanted to bite at it so we had to keep him away.

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This time of year I see tarantulas at the centers. Last week, cleaning by a big wash there was a colorado river toad and a tarantula roaming around. The toad saw the tarantula and gobbled it right up, just legs sticking out of its mouth, then spit it out, tried to eat it one more time then spit it out again. I was absolutely amused! Tony, did you see the hourglass on that spider? It doesn't look like a widow to me, looks like a funnel web.
 
tomtucson said:
This time of year I see tarantulas at the centers. Last week, cleaning by a big wash there was a colorado river toad and a tarantula roaming around. The toad saw the tarantula and gobbled it right up, just legs sticking out of its mouth, then spit it out, tried to eat it one more time then spit it out again. I was absolutely amused! Tony, did you see the hourglass on that spider? It doesn't look like a widow to me, looks like a funnel web.
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That's what I was thinking they have a almost glass sheen to them around here. That one looks a little hairy.
 
mattspws said:
That's what I was thinking they have a almost glass sheen to them around here. That one looks a little hairy.
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You're right, we didn't even bother to look. But most of them are dark black shiny and their legs are more spindly. Does anyone know what it is? I don't think it's hairy enough to be a wolf spider and it doesn't seem to be stocky enough to be a funnel web.
 
Tony Shelton said:
You're right, we didn't even bother to look. But most of them are dark black shiny and their legs are more spindly. Does anyone know what it is? I don't think it's hairy enough to be a wolf spider and it doesn't seem to be stocky enough to be a funnel web.
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It's a Wolf spider that has recently saved it's legs......:drag:
 
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