I have a BlackWidowRanch ~ I can go out on pretty much every night Spring thru Summer & Find&Kill @ least 5 ( I know where to look) ~ We have Wolfs & Parsons & Jumping Spiders as well but I let them do their thing as long as they stay away from my Cars ~ Especially don't allow any Spider to attempt to take up residence InOrOn my Westy ~ ORR ~ DeanB
On 1 Jul , 2014, at 7:18 PM, Jonce Fancher wrote: > Reminds me of back in the early early 90s. > My room mate and I grabbed some VW Parts from under his house and > loaded them up in my 64 VW double cab the day before the VW Swap meet. > > got up in the AM about 4:30 and drove from San Diego To LA. Got in at > 4:30 with a few spider webs and thought nothing of it. > > Well through the whole trip we had more then our fair share of > encounters with plenty of the widow spiders. No Bites but we were > jumpy most of the day when we finally got up there. Drove in the dark > the whole way up freaked out. > after that one night we went on a part search under his house and it > was crawling with black widows. Decided we needed to Bug Bomb it to > go in again. > > Also, After moving back to Michigan I purchased a 71 bus and had is > shipped from Holister CA to MI. Got it hear and sat it in the pole > barn. Came out a few days later to look at it and it was riddled with > BIG Black widow stow aways. > > All in good fun. > > Jonce > >> For a couple of months, I've been ignoring the spider that set up shop >> in the corner of the kitchen cabinet face. I figure spiders are useful >> and mostly harmless. >> >> Sunday I thought I'd take a close-up photo, just for fun. When I blew >> it up, I realized things would have to change. >> >> Warning: Don't open the link unless you're prepared. I can't look at it >> myself. >> >> http://www.sbw.org/petspiderinwesty.jpg >> >> Went through the camper with a vacuum and Raid today. |
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