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My Porch spiders are doing well this year !!!
William81
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I enjoy watching them and feeding them every night...
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OK. Don
Great photo! I love watching the spiders. My teacher read Charlotte's Web to us in fifth grade, that was when I began to like spiders.
Nice picture, but when their out like that it tells me it’s time to get the sprayer out.
nice photo and I am sure it likes the fee meals
I have always caught and watched the spiders around us since I was a young kid ( nothing real dangerous) around here to worry about lucky for me ) house spiders , garden spiders and the normal orb weaver, like your photo course wolf spiders I have been bitten a few times by them while handling them can't get upset I was the one provoking them, cant leave out jumping spiders are fun to watch also
my wife and I both any spider found in the house get a free ride back out side stlll alive of course .
I have seen a lot of you tube videos about jumping spiders they are a popular pet ( I had a tarantula when I was younger ) also per the all knowing internet 😁 and spider collectors jumping spiders are one of the smartest creatures .
I only have barking spiders in my house. My wife hates them!
This reminds me of when I was a kid, at the Anadarko Feed Lot. I would help my uncle shovel cattle feed into the feeder "houses". Ya had to stay sharp, and keep your head down........as there were usually 6 or so Black Widows under the roof of each feeder.
Never got tagged.......but sooooo close a few times.
The early 60's were fun.......
I group spiders and snakes together. I find both species very interesting to watch but I only handle if there is a real good reason!!
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spider cover up. No info on the desert recluse spider that has a flesh eating bacteria bite. the Wiki page is "Balloon Spider" It makes a sail and can travel thousands of miles on the wind. Deserts like Mohave and Sonora desert has winds that gusts up into the hundreds of feet. the daily pattern pulls cold air in when the desert temp rises. The spider climbs a cactus and creates a tiny sail of a web and 2' string that catches the gusts. no pix of the type on the web that i have seen. Very thin legs and long body make it very light weight. They are quickly eaten by bugs when they land in a wet area. When landing in desert or drought area, they thrive. Due to drought, they are all over southern California area and other drought areas. Necroses spiders can cause loss of limbs or death.
We are lucky in some ways around us No poisonons snakes or real dangerous spiders
Black widows are commonplace here . Also copperhead. Both drt when seem
Black widow bites have decreased markedly since the mid 20th Century. The near universality of indoor plumbing has made the difference. Guess where the vast majority of bites were received prior to then.🙂
On any given day I can find 20 western widows around the yard. They get left alone as long as they are not in flower pots. gardens on on the house. Don't want to have them indoors with the cats. I could kill them all, but three days later, there homes would have new residents. They are way common here. Bites are rare, about 7 people per year die from black widow bites in the entire US.
We have widows here that I find quite often in my outdoor woodpile. Also have the Brown Recluse and that little bugger gets squished on sight! A state trooper friend of mine got bit in the locker room at the city station a few years ago. He has a scar on his leg that is a huge crater where the flesh just turned to mush. IMO, the Recluse is the most deadly here in the states.
Brookwood the black widow has venom about 7x more potent than that of the prairie rattle snake. While the recluse venom causes persistent necrosis, the venom is not as toxic. The cause more bites because of their propensity to share human habitations. The are not aggressive, I have handled several unintentionally, but the often hide in clothing (and wet siuts!), and bite when trapped between cloth and skin. As an aside, their bite is so notorious that doctors diagnose recluse bites in states far from their actual range. They do not occur here in New Mexico, but the Apache recluse does. They do not share their relatives propensity for human habitation. I have never seen one, though I saw hundreds in Missouri.