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jackass friend said "Go outside. hold a flashlight against your temple. Look at your yard. All those green dots are wolf spiders"

I did it. They were EVERYWHERE!!!
Got closer, yup. Spiders all over the place.

Because I am stupid I decide to turn the lights off inside the house and do the same experiment.

<10 seconds and I started seeing them.
NO NO NO NO NO!!!!

Sweet dreams folks there are spiders all over your damned house!
More than you think. Bigger than you think.

Eff Me!
 
Wonder if it has to do with the time of year? I have been pulling a lot of dead wolf spiders out of my skimmer in the last week.
 
No Wolf spiders down here, I just went out and looked. But, I'm getting those massive flying multi-colored beetles or something in the pool. Had about 5 of them yesterday. Lucky they don't come around during the day when I'm in the pool.
 
Spiders are your friends.....they eat other insects.

Please don't get hypersensitive about them....they don't want to eat humans.

Statistically you will crash your plane before you ever will get a bite from a spider.
 
docmirror said:
No Wolf spiders down here, I just went out and looked. But, I'm getting those massive flying multi-colored beetles or something in the pool. Had about 5 of them yesterday. Lucky they don't come around during the day when I'm in the pool.
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Wolf spiders are harmless.....they can be big and ugly....but they want nothing to do with humans.

Actually if they are inside your home...try to relocate them outside....not much food source for them indoors....they do much better helping you keep other bugs away when they are outdoors.
 
TEFLONSEAN said:
Wolf spiders are harmless.....they can be big and ugly....but they want nothing to do with humans.

Actually if they are inside your home...try to relocate them outside....not much food source for them indoors....they do much better helping you keep other bugs away when they are outdoors.
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Um, you quoted me, who has no wolf spiders. Thanks for the advice, but I'm already a live and let live guy anyway.
 
I read a rumor somewhere that at any given time you are NEVER more than three feet from a spider.
 
We have one at the yard that guards the Charmin
 

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txflyer said:
I read a rumor somewhere that at any given time you are NEVER more than three feet from a spider.
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There are rumors we eat an avg of 8-10 spiders a year from them crawling in our mouth while we are sleeping....gotta love the Internet. This ain't true....spiders like to eat other insects....and make webs to catch them....your mouth isn't the ideal place...since your snoring most likely scares your wife away along with other smaller creatures!!:D
 
TEFLONSEAN said:
There are rumors we eat an avg of 8-10 spiders a year from them crawling in our mouth while we are sleeping....gotta love the Internet. This ain't true....spiders like to eat other insects....and make webs to catch them....your mouth isn't the ideal place...since your snoring most likely scares your wife away along with other smaller creatures!!:D
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sssshhhhhhh, we're pilots.

We don't snore, get it? ;)
 
TEFLONSEAN said:
Statistically you will crash your plane before you ever will get a bite from a spider.
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Ok, I'm never flying again.

I get at least a 2 to 3 spider bites every year... They're mostly just annoying but I did get hospitalized some years ago for a Latrodectus (widow) bite.
 
Just did it....not a single spider.

I think I've only seen like 2 spiders since I've been up here. I feel fairly spider safe.
 
6PC, I missed yours posts while you were on vacation. Welcome back!

David
 
Bear Spray!

(must now clean coffee from monitor)
 
Bear Spray = Extra strong mace that shoots 30ft out of a mini fire extinguisher.
 
TEFLONSEAN said:
Statistically you will crash your plane before you ever will get a bite from a spider.
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That's probably true, cuz if one lands in my lap while Im flying I'm very likely to crash the plane before I get bit!
 
Had to check the tire pressure on the mains. Decided to pull off the wheel pants instead of groping around for the valve stem with my hand. Two black widows in the left wheel pants, one in the right.
 
I don't necessarity mind the spiders, but I really hate having to clean up all their cobwebs when I come back from a deployment!!
 
Geico266 said:
Scorpions in Georgia?
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Yes. We were surprised to learn that after we moved down here. We had one in our house here a few months ago. I thought my wife was going to move out. :dunno:
 
Old Geek said:
Had to check the tire pressure on the mains. Decided to pull off the wheel pants instead of groping around for the valve stem with my hand. Two black widows in the left wheel pants, one in the right.
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That doesn't bother me nearly as much as reaching to attach a trailer and finding the damned wasps have built a nest in the ball hitch. That hurt. Stuck my fingers right in the damn things.

Couldn't really blame them that they were ticked off, but they were dead a few minutes later via wasp spray and chemical warfare.

Even the Black Widows will back off usually when they see a giant finger coming. Not wasps.
 
This gives you an idea of the scale:

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We've dispatched maybe 20 of the little critters this year - an unusually high number.
 
This also works for brown recluse in the house. They have to be looking your direction, but it's amazing how bright the returned signal is.
 
steingar said:
I have them in my hangar. Happy to do so, they eat the bugs.
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I've got them too in my hangar. I'm just across from a grass field, so I guess that's why I get them so bad. My old hangar at the same airport I didn't have wolf spiders at all, but I did have a load of Black Widows all the time. That hangar was in a sea of asphalt and no grass.

The Wolf Spiders actually creep me out more than the Widows because they are bigger, fuzzy and move faster. They kind of **** me off sometimes. It seems every time I go to move something, there's a great big ol' bug you didn't see either running, or staring at you and they're big enough you can make out the eyes! They don't really make webs much to speak of, so they don't even give you warning of where they are hanging out.

I don't kill 'em, but I do try to get them outdoors or at least somewhere I can't see them. Herding Wolf Spiders is way harder than herding cats. I can open up my hangar door 40' wide and still not get them to run outside!:mad: If they're really up in my face, I'll use the jar and cardboard trick and then fling them into the grass.
 
Compressed air blower nozzle works well. They don't like that. Of course, you need a compressor and a hose to make it work.
 
I have a back room in my house that's uninsulated/unheated with a sliding glass door out to the back yard. Call it a three season room, and it's carpeted with low/no nap carpeting. One night I go in there to check to make sure the sliding door is closed. It's pitch black, no moonlight, no lights on in the room, and I can hear something running across the carpet. I figure it's a deer mouse or something. Then I feel it run over my bare foot. I quick flip on the light and see this big ugly hairy spider in the corner.

Spiders outside my house live. Spiders inside my house die. I hit him with some Raid until he was white. Shut the door between that room and the rest of the house and went to bed. Next morning got up and found him curled up on his back dead. The abdomen alone was the size of a quarter.
 
EdFred said:
I have a back room in my house that's uninsulated/unheated with a sliding glass door out to the back yard. Call it a three season room, and it's carpeted with low/no nap carpeting. One night I go in there to check to make sure the sliding door is closed. It's pitch black, no moonlight, no lights on in the room, and I can hear something running across the carpet. I figure it's a deer mouse or something. Then I feel it run over my bare foot. I quick flip on the light and see this big ugly hairy spider in the corner.

Spiders outside my house live. Spiders inside my house die. I hit him with some Raid until he was white. Shut the door between that room and the rest of the house and went to bed. Next morning got up and found him curled up on his back dead. The abdomen alone was the size of a quarter.
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I trust you fired up the grill and had some BBQ? Did it taste like chicken?
 
AdamZ said:
Yeah, great idea and don't forget your Bear Spray, Don't worry about your flash light, you don't need it to see those Grizzlies.
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VERY IMPORTANT.!!!

For those wanting to visit or live in Alaska, you must be able to tell the difference between bear scat and wolf scat.

Wolf scat will be smallish and have hair in it.

Bear scat will be much larger, have bear bells in it, and smell like pepper spray.

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For some reason, I thought that holding the flashlight up to your temple while shining it into your skull would give you the ability to see spiders at night.

I am not a smart man.
 
The good ole bear bells joke, it's a clasic!!!

And friends you do not have to be able to outrun a brown bear to survive. You only need to follow these two rules.

1. Never and I mean never go anywhere by your self.

2. Always make sure you can outrun whoever you take!!!!!
 
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