Scared the 💩 outta me

[Rustytweezers]

Weed eating the yard and something hits me in the shin while getting into a corner with the weed eater. Looked down where it landed and yikes. A fricking black widow laying there stunned I guess because he was still moving around. I’m definitely not savvy to mean spiders. Grass spiders whatever house spiders meh. But black widow is where I draw the line brown recluse hell no. Be careful out there I’m in Tulsa and wasn’t expecting that lol.

 

[Ready_fire_aim]

I see them fairly often. Black widow spiders normally keep away though, usually solitary, living outdoors. I HATE brown recluses because they’ll totally infest barns, woodpiles, haystacks, storage areas, etc.. I’ve never seen black widows set up shop and multiply like the fiddleback

 

[Okie4570]

Got one living on the back patio door and see them yearly. I like to watch them make their egg sack, then kill them. This was last week.

 

[CoronaBorealis]

I found one in my mail box a couple weeks ago.

 

[Kid Glock]

I found one in my mail box a couple weeks ago.

Do you know who sent it???
Sorry, couldn't resist.

 

[turkeyrun]

Haven't had much problem with spiders, this year.

Usually find 1 scorpion, in the house, every year. Have seen and killed 4, this summer. 2 in the last week.

Wasps have been especially bad. See them swarming around the front door and in the garage. 1 or 2 get in the house, almost daily and Wif goes ballistic.

Just life in Oklahoma. Head on a swivel.

 

[Snattlerake]

Wear pants when weed-eating, dummy!

 

[cboss]

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

Seen a couple scorpions over the last 8 years we've been here, including one in the bathroom, approaching me while I was on the throne. That's a story all on it's own. We see tarantellas quite often, and those big yellow belly dudes.

Wife hates them scorpions, black widows, and fiddle-backs as do I. She hates those yellow bellies and I will dispatch them for her, but I like to watch them do their thing.

Those tarantellas are damn near big enough to make into pets, but we leave them to their own devices. If they get too close to the doors, I scoop them up in a shovel and carry them out away to anywhere they can't invade the house.

As for those accursed grasshoppers eating anything green we try to grow, they are disliked with extreme prejudice.

Woody

 

[RETOKSQUID]

Wear pants when weed-eating, dummy!

I second this!