would you kill a poisonious spider?

Is it an orb weaver? Those are impressive but harmless.
Widows and recluses don't live in trees. They also spin cobwebs.
I know whan I have a widow in the garage ... she'll spin this web that is very strong and makes a crackling noise when i sweep it away. I will kill a widow (with a shop vac ... out of sight, out of mind, and the dust drowns'em) but without pleasure.
I get daddy longlegs in the house ... the western, elegant sort (Pholcid spiders) and those I gather up in a glass and transfer them outdoors. Once in a great while a hunting/wolf spider will show up, and it also gets catch&release.
Saw a tarantula when i was hiking a month ago. Almost stepped on it by accident! I watched for a few seconds while it moseyed into some brush.

Bottom line, outdoor tree spider = no worries. And they ARE usually active at night ... that's when they spin and repair their webs. cn

good info. that page i read said the widows stay in the web. this thing is rarely ever in the web. maybe it's just a big ugly spider with no poison.

Black widows are very round ... the mature females look like glossy pitch-black marbles with legs. They also have a disconcerting habit of moving slowly. I once watched a widow crawl out of a hole in a planter ... it looked like a perfect miniature of a horror-movie scene. All that was missing was shrieking violins!

Found one cool pic of a species of Mexican black widow ... but i could not learn if these are the natural colors or if it got aftermarket paint and a bumpin stereo. cn

looks just like this one. i found this looking for the one that is in the web outside



http://www.cirrusimage.com/spider_black_widow.htm

these things make my stomch turn but for some reason i like looking.

medicalmaryjane said:

<snip>these things make my stomch turn but for some reason i like looking.

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Heh, like bisexual porn ...
That is a gorgeous spider. Look at the balls on its face! cn

Dunno if anyone told you but that is not a black widow web - it's some type of barely poisonous orb weaver, completely harmless.

These guys live at the base of my bed -

Dude, change your sheets! cn

Does your spider look kind of like this?



Or this?



These are Argiope - large, beautiful, completely harmless.

holy shit, get the can of

no yellow. i posted what it looks like a page back

Gastanker why do you let those spiders stay there? are those black widows?

he looks similar to this:


lol i feel like he's my pet now.

Gastanker: the first one is a Common Garden Spider, no?

The second one is a tough call because of the rectangular body and absence of legs. But the red X leads me to a tentative identification as a ... (wait for it!)
White Widow. I wish i knew where those lived in the wild ... cn

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no yellow. i posted what it looks like a page back

Gastanker why do you let those spiders stay there? are those black widows?

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It can't be what you posted. The spider you posted does not spin orb webs.

One of mine is a black widow - they are behind glass, in cages, not just running amuck

oh PHUK!!!!! THe spider I killed WAS a yellow sack spider!!!!!!!! I've been killing these at the rate of a couple per year at this place. Damn it. This is what they look like in case you other guys have it, I'm in the northeast US, city, so...you could have these too.
http://www.spiderzrule.com/sac.htm

i will try to get a pic of the spider if it ever comes out of the tree. it's lived here for along time but it doesn't come out too often. i saw it doing something with a dead bug in the web today but it took off before i could get a picture. it looks like what i showed you but i gguess it's not a black widow. it's something, something abnormal. not your everyday spider.

theres nothing in my country that poisons you and i thank god for that everyday but this mother fucker rite here makes me do numbers whenever i see em. i got bite multiple times, my leg (knee down) swelled twice its size one time and i never even saw that one that did the damage but i jus knew it was one.

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You never said what region you're from.

now I'm getting bad arachnaphobia, I completely wig out. The article talks about them coming indoors when the weather turns cold and they can lay 48 eggs

i am in southern california.

i wonder what this spider is. i have never seen anything like it before in my life. i hope i can get a picture some day.

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Does your spider look kind of like this?

These are Argiope - large, beautiful, completely harmless.

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YO man those things can FREAK you out in the garden, EYE level man...EYE level...out of NOWHERE...RIGHT IN YOUR FACE