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That time of year again..... Spiders
William81
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Every summer about this time, the spiders start building webs on the front porch. I enjoy watching and feeding them moths and bugs. This one is only about 1" long and was had to get a lens on. This will get easier as it grows bigger…. Anyone else ?
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Sorry, no pictures and no feeding them, but,
This year at spring there were hundreds if not thousands of tiny black spiders everywhere in the lawn. They have since disappeared. None in the house or garage, just gone. No idea what kind they were ( other than tiny and black Don). Anyone know??
Orb weaver maybe a barn spider or close I am teribe at remembering the names
But only a few can actually do any real harm to us and do way more Good
There is a Canadian you tuber does "the spiders in your house and mine "
Good guy to watch
Many more also post on YouTube about just about every iinsectand spiders seem they like to get bit just for the view count and then go over the pain level
As a kid I was taught the only Good one was dead and the spiders just waited and wanted to bite and kille me , thanks mom and dad LOL
Oh as for around here not many spotted but there due only one or two like the one you posted
Soon the big garden spiders wil be stringing webs all over . I could not guess the number of wolf and jumping spiders I Carry. Back out of the house each year
Jumping spiders would be my pick as a favorite if I had to chose what's local
there suppose to have high intelligence and vision thats amazing
When I was about 20 yrs , I bought a tarantula it got me over all fear of spiders, and no, it never bit me, and we handled it a lot
They may be beneficial but they still look good under a shoe.
I like spiders. When I was in fifth grade our teacher read Charlotte's Web to the class. A story of the life of a spider. I never kill a spider, inside the house it is "catch and release." They eat lots of bugs.
yes it is that time of the year… I try to let them live in the yard and barns, but the ones in the house are not so lucky…The worst part for me is walking in to the webs I don't always see…
Yep….. That was how I knew they were back on the porch !!!!
all spider webs in the woods are at face level no matter how tall you are!😉
Truth. ^^^
Nope they die in found in my house or garage.
Sorry Chief, that is logically impossible, and biologically inaccurate. I am pretty sure you have a bright future writting comedy though.🤣
You guys that kill them are a bunch of little girls.😈
well this guy has been hanging out near the chicken coop and I have almost walked in to it a few times, but I have let it survive for now… and He Dog can you 100% honestly say you never killed an insect in your home? I would highly doubt that.
Yellow and black orb weaver. Great spiders for catching flying insects. Not dangerous to people. No Ruger I can't say that. Silverfish, and roaches. Widows in or on the house get no quarter, because we have cats. But I could collect 50 in the yard and walls today.
When my sons were young,there was a spider that made a web on the back deck every day about dusk.The boys would go watch the spider catch insects.It was like a pet to them and they named it Danny.
Don't know why, but I seem to get bit every year by at least one spider. Currently have a bite on my right shoulder and it itches like crazy.
Wife unit tried to kill the itch with peroxide and some sort of cream, but the little bastage is in deep and nothing seems to help.
Skin is turning brown around the bite area just like the bites in the past. Couple of weeks and it will go away, but the itch is terrible.
I don't have any love for spiders.
Our cats take care of insects in the house.
I give snakes and lizards and such a pass, except for copperheads and moccasins . I feel no such benevolence towards arachnids.
Why do you think it was a spider? Did you see it? A lot of invertebrates can cause unhappy reactions and eppy pens and other things can help, not so much home remedies.
The ones building webs will take them down. eat most of to help regenerate a new one next day
I have been bit by wolf spiders more than I will admit but my fault for picking them by their legs scaring them and get bit I do similar with bees grab both wings 80% it works out but not always i just never learn
As I have gotten older I give a free pass to just about everything that passes thru our yard or relocate it
Wish I could give an absolute/definitive answer, but no, I did not see the creature that bit me.
The last two times I was told by my doctor that I was bit by a spider, so I assume this is the same, since the itch and irritation are similar.
I don't know why, but if I am in range of any type of insect, I am always the first person to donate blood/skin/whatever. Been that way my entire life.
Nothing will teach you karate moves quicker than running into a spider web with your face.
LOL! ain't that the truth!
Loxosceles & Lactodectus are very common here. Best to exercise caution when working around dark areas in garages, closets, & storage areas. I always wear gloves.
The are more than one species of orb weavers. I consider them beneficial.
I sure can relate to that ...….. .
This web is on my big porch. I have never seen a web like this before. It is a tunnel 1 1/2 inches wide and six inches deep. Thank God the girlfriend hasn't seen it, she would have spent 10 minutes hacking at it with the broom, and all the while squawking at me.
She knows better than to call me to kill a spider.
Doctors assume all bites/stings are from spiders. Brown recluse bites are diagnosed several states outside of the range of the recluse. Some insects are attracted to odor, not implying you stink, but that you might emit some chemical that smells like food. Some are drawn by CO2, meaning the breath you exhale. If you are a deep breather that might single you out in a crowd. A source of CO2 is often a source of blood, or liquids like eye fluids. Gnats are attracted to ear wax. And likely a pile we don't know. Wish I could tell you how to keep them off, Deet helps with mosquitos, sulfur in your socks helps with ticks and chiggars. Try to avoid the rest.
The Cleveland Clinic says there is treatment for arachnophobia. You can start with psycho therapy and it may involve drugs such as Xanax and Valium:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21852-arachnophobia-fear-of-spiders
Whatever it was that bit me, left a big lump about the size of a half dollar. I'm used to the black fly bites which only get the size of a pencil eraser but have the same itch factor.
The only other bugs that really bother me are the flys that invade my boat while on Erie. They bite really hard (draws blood) and that's when I dope up with spray. I still find it bizarre that they find us 17 miles from shore, Lol.
Black flies. I'm a Georgia boy, no black flies down here in Dixie.
One June day I was paddling a canoe across a lake in Quetico Park Ontario. Got to the far shore I had blood draining off my head where black flies had tore me up. Those little guys are vicious.
No black fly but we have yellow flys. Vicious suckers!
Never heard of one before. Off to Google I go,,
Also look up blue winged olives…
True!!!!