Spider Webs

eww, dont say that, CR. icky!! nothing is worse than walking into a giant spider web when you least expect it. **shudders** oooh, i hate that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider

ewww, theres a picture....**shudder**

also, what state do you live in?? i enjoy searching for things. as much as i hate spiders, i love researching them.

we have that thing you plug into the outlet and its supposed to send small currents around the house only painful to rodents and insects. we dont usually have spiders, but i have seen them. theyre usually those clearish yellow house spiders.

brown recluses ARE deadly if not treated when bitten, be careful.
I had a prob with roaches, so I bought RAID MAX, in the blue can at walmart and it last 6 mos when you use it and it does work THAT long cuz I sprayed about 2 mos ago and I found a DEAD roach last night in my bathroom!! I'm sure they have something similar for spiders you can use, if it killed roaches, it'll kill spiders too!

I had several thoughts reading thru the comments.

1) Since spiders tend to eat other insects, what kind of humongous insects must be in your neighborhood to attract such big-ass spiders?!

2) The Wikipedia entry said to identify spiders by their eyes. Yeah, RIGHT, I'm gonna get close enough to look into it's EYES. hahahahah.

3) The comment about spiders with "meatier bodies and legs" makes me think of an ad for chicken parts.

4) You're in Southern California. Maybe the spiders are undocumented immigrants, in which case they'll protest if you try to get rid of them.

I used to find Funnel Weaver spiders around my old house...those things were huge....including the legs, they were a little smaller than my hand...and they weren't skinny.

We have black widow spiders all over the place here...even the average toddler can identify them and know not to touch them. I find them everywhere.

when you say meaty, do you mean a very large ROUND body with thich legs or a oval shaped body? like, is its butt really fat and round like a ball or longer but meaty? also, what do the webs look like? are they sparatic or very fancy? are they in corners or across anything? are the in more wooded areas or dark corners? where have you seen these spiders and their webs specifically?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orb-weaver_spider ::i dont think its this one, but it almost matches the discription. location of web is not the same and the legs are too skinny::

im still looking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sac_spider ::again, i dont think this is it only because the body and legs seem a little slimmer than what im picturing. the butt is meaty, though. also, the location is dead on. however, they build webs on leaves, not along doorways and such::

ive seen so many pictures of spiders i dont think the pics can scare me anymore. lol. also, with all this research, ive learned how to identify orb weaver spiders. at least, the more common ones.

http://www.phorid.net/spiders/gallery.htm ::are any of these your spider?? i dont think they are but im giving it a shot.::

But all this talk about spiders is making my skin crawl and I am not afraid of spiders but just the thought of them crawling causes the automatic response in your brain the make your skin crawl.

yeah, i keep getting tickle feeling on my legs and stomach. i actually reacted violently to a tickle a few minutes ago and kicked the garbage can under my desk. lol. ::BANG!:: the spider pics arent creeping me out but i guess, like you said, its the bodies natural response. lol. damn spiders.

**shudders** i dont think ive ever SEEN a black widow and i would be perfectly content to never see one. i am so glad the brown recluse lives south of me. i dont think i could sleep at night knowing theres brown recluses lingering around the house/garage.

i did almost put my hand on a banana spider when i was playing on a playground as a kid. my dad told me there were very poisonous. turns out, theyre not. and when i was at camp as a kid there was a wolf spider the size of my open hand on the wall in the ladies room. freaked us all out.

here take a look

http://www.camelspiders.net/

hm, i guess they get about the size of a hand. still, creepy.

LOL, you guys, whenever people talk about bugs, I always feel like something's on me too and start jumping and kicking things!! LOL!!
I see little ones around the house from time to time and I suck up their webs with the vacuum along with them sometimes. I think it is safe to ASSUME that ALL spiders are poisonous/dangerous because we don't know WHICH ones are! only the more "popular" ones.

I don't have to worry about spiders. I hvae cats and snakes and spiders don't like either one. They also don't like dogs which would expalin why I dont' have any in the dog kennel either

We have this friend who is sooooooooooooooooo afraid of spiders that he almost wrecked his car with us andhis wife in it b/c a spider crawled down the door. He screamed like a little beotch when I tossed a toy spider on him. That was funny to see a grown man scream like that.

ROTFLMFAO!!!! that is classic. Nothing like scaring someone with a toy. How bout this....I have snakes. I had a friend staying with me when I got back from Korea and I knew she is afraid of snakes. Now one of my snakes is a escape artist. He happened to get out one night and I found out right before I left to go to PT. I told her to keep on the look out for him until I cam home to change for work. You talking about a flash. She jumped up off the couch and ran into the bathroom and didn't come out until I cam home after PT and found the snake under the stand his cage was on. I nearly die laughing.

She is black girl from the middle of nowhere VA (farmville) who is the youngest grandchild and was sheltered all her life her mom is afraid of cats.

Nope I married the devil remember? LOL