laid down in bed, when suddenly...

[LightningCrash]

i feel something run down my arm... a fiddleback bolted across my arm and down my shirt!

caught him in a jar and looked at the eyes. definitely a brown recluse.

i've spared many jumping spider and daring jumping spider in my life

this time....



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[Okie4570]

We've delt with them for years, no bites yet fortunately. There was a guy on CL in OKC buying live adults for a $1/spider for a study he was doing.

 

[Danny Tanner]

I had a close call with one of these guys last November. It was on the morning I was flying out for another vacation in Vegas and I was worried it'd ruin my trip since I wasn't sure if it had bit me or not. I had just finished showering and forgot to grab a dry towel before hopping in. So instead of tracking water across the bathroom to grab one when I was finished, I used my wife's towel from before. After drying my hair, I started brushing my teeth. Then I felt something on the back of my neck. I assumed it was one of my wife's hairs, as they end up everywhere (as you can see in the pic below where one is trying to snake its way down the drain). So I grab it and realize I'm actually holding something between my fingers. So I throw whatever it is down into the sink and see this:

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Little bastard.

I've had to catch and release two this weekend. One in the daughter's bathroom and one in the garage which had laid eggs on my tent cover. On the handle, of all places.

 

[Glocktogo]

No release for those little bastards. Kill em dead and watch em do the death shudder!

 

[Buddhaman]

My sister got bit by one on her leg, it happened exactly the same way you described. She went to bed, woke up and when she moved she must have startled it because it bit her and bolted. The bite doesn't look good at all. I think I would carpet bomb my house with bug spray and spider killer after I found 1 of those.

 

[woolworh]

Scary.

 

[cjjtulsa]

Killed an enormous one the night before last. It was casually walking along the top of the wall next to the ceiling in our living room; Mr. Flyswatter turned him to puddin'.

 

[LightningCrash]

yeah i have a new soap sprayer and some spider spray on the way.

he was 1.1"
pretty huge for fiddlebacks really

 

[DanB]

Kill em with fire. or extreme pressure from what ever solid object you can find if in the hosue.

I'm not dealing with those little bastards thankfully. Just Black Widow spiders. I killed a few last year and already have one notch on the belt this year.

 

[mhphoto]

yeah i have a new soap sprayer and some spider spray on the way.

he was 1.1"
pretty huge for fiddlebacks really

I've killed two in our closet at least 1 inch. I've never seen them that big. Warm winter to blame?

I had a close call with one of these guys last November. It was on the morning I was flying out for another vacation in Vegas and I was worried it'd ruin my trip since I wasn't sure if it had bit me or not. I had just finished showering and forgot to grab a dry towel before hopping in. So instead of tracking water across the bathroom to grab one when I was finished, I used my wife's towel from before. After drying my hair, I started brushing my teeth. Then I felt something on the back of my neck. I assumed it was one of my wife's hairs, as they end up everywhere (as you can see in the pic below where one is trying to snake its way down the drain). So I grab it and realize I'm actually holding something between my fingers. So I throw whatever it is down into the sink and see this:

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Little bastard.

I've had to catch and release two this weekend. One in the daughter's bathroom and one in the garage which had laid eggs on my tent cover. On the handle, of all places.

Haha, didn't you start a thread about that? That situation of yours sounds really familiar…