Black widow spider crawls out of grapes

[Bobblehead]

That was Post 412 in Azure's Million post thread.

[Temporary_User]

Anyone remember my thread about how I'm moving into a place with 3 girls next month?
Yeah this thread is what makes me nervous about that!

[ken0042]

^^ Yeah, but if you are going to have a room mate kill you anyways, it may as well be a hot chick who has sex with you first.

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by Temporary_User

Anyone remember my thread about how I'm moving into a place with 3 girls next month?
Yeah this thread is what makes me nervous about that!

You'll definitely be on call 24/7 for spider killing. You'll also be the one who lifts anything over ten pounds, answers the door late at night, and investigates any loud noises.

[Azure]

Holy crap that thing is huge....

[transplant99]

Man, I feel for you. The bites from those things are NASTY. Did it heal up well?

Healed up OK...though there will be lifelong implications from the resulting infection.

And that Camel Spider is unbelievable...didnt even know such a thing existed on this planet.

Yikes....and brutal.

[ken0042]

Originally Posted by transplant99

And that Camel Spider is unbelievable...didnt even know such a thing existed on this planet.

Yikes....and brutal.

According to Snopes the picture is a bit of an optical illusion.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp

[BlAcKNoVa]

Originally Posted by PowerPlayoffs06

I found one of those in my shower once a few years ago and had never seen one before, so I looked it up online and read up on what they can do. You can tell if it's a brown recluse by the little fiddle-shape patch on it's body.

Man, I feel for you. The bites from those things are NASTY. Did it heal up well?

Ugh, just looking at the photo gives me the heebee-jeebees. <shudder>

Really nasty bite pictures in this link... http://skywalker.cochise.edu/wellerr...wn-recluse.htm

[Vulcan]

Originally Posted by JohnnyB

I've got quite an enormous black widow in the basement here in Penticton, and I've also found a couple in irrigation boxes around the yard this summer. They're pretty non-aggressive spiders, and from what I understand it's only the really big ones that would be capable of injecting enough venom deep enough into your skin to be at all dangerous.

I've seen a couple of black widows around my place, but they seem to stay out of the way and haven't bothered me. Lots of different spiders around here. I generally just vacuum them up, ugly mothers.

[JohnnyB]

Originally Posted by BlAcKNoVa

Really nasty bite pictures in this link... http://skywalker.cochise.edu/wellerr...wn-recluse.htm

Those are horrifying! It's also really weird that it looks like the wound is just being held together with black thread in the last pick. You'd think there would be better ways of dealing with a massive gaping wound than wrapping a little black thread around it.