Black Widow invasion

[doublesharp]

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[storeyteller]

Our biggest pest in SW GA is the devilish gnat! Go outside for more that 2 minutes and they begin to swarm around the eyes, ears, nose and mouth. The best of the bug sprays will keep 'em off for about 10 min, the worst only seems to attract more. This year there seem to LOTS more and they are particularly aggressive compared to years past.

 

[Stevie]

I've killed a bunch of black widow spiders myself this year....like maybe 8 or 10 of them.

Crickets and grasshoppers are the real problem this year though. The black widow spider may be poisonous...but they really don't bother me all that much.

 

[BearBio]

There are very few black and brown widows on our side of the mountains. We have all manner of other types of arachnids though. Lots of golden garden spiders this year, I have walked through more webs than I'd care to count! Killed a big ol' wolf spider in the bathroom Wednesday, at the behest of my granddaughter...

Don't laugh but I have severe arachnophobia. Snakes, scorpions and big nasty guys with teeth don't bother me.

On the east side of the mountain (the GOOD side) we get a few widows. Unless they are in a protected spot, they'll die over winter. We tore up a deck we had put in and I found one female but at least 60 nests with dead eggs in them. Have found a couple in our garage.

Growing up in SoCal, we learned very early to watch where you put your hands.

 

[-db-]

Earwigs and crickets here, far more than usual. Haven't seen a larger amount of spiders but I know with the abundance of these others, they're around.

 

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[captorquewrench]

Would you like me to trump that with a Tarantula Hawk? We also have Cricket Hunters and Scarab Hunters. All are LARGE species of wasp with a life cycle straight from the movie Alien.

No thanks, I'm good. Not crazy about wasps. I think I feel about their looks like my daughter feels about lobsters. I tell her they are delicious.

She says she wants to know who saw a lobster and said, "hey that alien thing looks delicious. I will cook it and see." I told her it probably went down more like, "Holy *&%&(% look at the thing KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!" and as it died in the fire someone said, "that smells pretty good, go get some butter. No sweeter revenge than eating something that scared the *&%*& out of me!"

 

[long colt frazier]

I grabbed my tack driver sandbag out of the garage yesterday and in the channel where you would place your rifle,momma black widow was there with her eggs. Creepy

 

[geoff40]

Bald faced hornets, they are also really aggressive, and big. Nasty things. Hunting wasps don't bother me, pretty interesting creatures IMO. The insect world, must be a lot like things were in the age of the dinosaurs. Thoughtless creatures that exist on ancient, primordial instinct. One creepy crawler eating another alive, stuff right out of a good horror movie.

I've personally seen dragonfly fossils that the bug was 14 inches long. They say much bigger fossils exist. If you know what a robber fly is, the fossil record on those is as old as that of the dragonfly, and I'll tell you, if modern day robber flies were as big as they were 400 million years ago, few of us would dare venture outdoors very often.

 

[Cyrano]

I was buzzed by a tarantula hawk a few years ago. I was out in the desert with a friend, busting some caps. I was manning the spotting scope when i felt something on my lap; it was a brown tarantula, about 4 inches across, not a very big one. Don't know what would have happened if it had gone up the inside of my pant leg. The sound I emitted caused my friend to turn around, even through he was wearing earmuffs. I brushed the tarantula off and stomped on him, and a few minutes later his remains were investigated by a tarantula hawk. It apparently didn't like what it saw for it soon buzzed off.