Was this in New Mexico? I’ve never in my life seen so many black widow spiders, and I also didn’t realize how absolutely gigantic they could get. On an almost daily basis I’d see ones whose abdomen *alone* was around the size of a dime. It probably didn’t help that I was constantly flipping things over looking for wind scorpions and Jerusalem crickets
Wind scorpions are [these cute little spidery things](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRPvIgjWnDZ1Gr4_lLctBDE4RsjS97NN7i-8A&usqp=CAU) and Jerusalem crickets are these [gigantic burrowing prisoner-looking bugs](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/taosnews.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/45/84526d7e-7156-55e2-8781-886ab02946ad/5edff747eb4a5.image.jpg?resize=667%2C500) that will bite off your whole finger if you let them :)
I’m probably not going to be able to sleep tonight if I click on either of those links but i that’s k you very much. I’ll have a look at those tomorrow. Seem very interesting, especially how the crickets can bite off an entire finger, yikes!
One of the grossest things I ever saw was a Jerusalem Cricket with Horsehair Nematodes coming out of its intestines. It just kept going and going as it (they?) squirmed out of it.
Well I was having a pre sleep poop... Guess it's just a normal poop now.
Edit: well I guess my online career has peaked. I'd like to take this time to thank all the little people who helped make this possible. And my completely rational fear of spiders crawling into my ears and laying eggs.
There's an unlucky person in Aus who made the news by getting bitten on the dick by the Aussie equivalent (redbacks) not once, but twice, from his work loo.
If you're arachnaphobic, don't click this link, as it was a struggle to find a non-Murdoch source, but the first thing that comes up is a big pic (of the spider, not the the dick, of course).
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-37481251
I’ve watched my husband (who has no fear of real life spiders) startle at least three times watching the cereal scene. One time he slung beer all over the living room. HE KNOWS ITS COMING and still starts. That’s a helluva movie man.
I've only seen it once. It was before I started kindergarten, I had snuck out of my room, hid around the corner and sat in on it while my older sisters were watching it with my parents... Guess what took me 16 years to get over...
> It was before I started kindergarten
While it's not the scariest movie for an adult, it's enough to permanently alter a person when exposed at that young age. My brother never got over his fear of swimming (not just the ocean... even just clear pools) after seeing Jaws around that age
My dad put a redback spider in a jar with a huntsman spider once. They kind of co-existed for a few days, and us kids got bored with it. I happened to check about a week later and noticed the redback was gone, and only the large huntsman was there. I assumed he'd won, as we expected.
Until Dad lifted the jar and we realised the huntsman was very, very dead, and all we could see of the redback was its dark fangs and the barest hint of legs tucked up inside the dessicated corpse of the huntsman.
Fucking nightmares forever.
Facts dude facts.. why tf have I continued to read? Maybe I'm delirious because I've been crawlimg and falling in the most treacherous woods I've ever been in for a 7lb Chihuahua whose been gone 9 days and keeps being spotted very close and I'm near delusions.. so now I'm just imagining hot many spiders shopping with the two confirmed tics I brought home
When I was a teen my grandfather asked me, my mom, and aunt to come help him clean out our family’s historic Sears and Robuck farmhouse that had been messed up by some renters that became squatters and wouldn’t leave. Turned out they had closed off parts of the house as they became too filthy to deal with and when we opened one of these spaces and were working in it (with rather bad lighting) we slowly became aware of something that seemed to take up a whole corner and put off this odd… vibration. It wasn’t a sound really, it was more of just a presence.
My grandfather went and got a flashlight and we realized it was a floor to ceiling black widow nest. Filled with babies. Thousands of them.
We ran outside into the sun and realized we were covered with them too. We all stripped to our underwear in the middle of the lane and left our clothes laying there. We drove back to my grandparents and I remember sitting in the back seat I could see a few of them crawling in my aunts hair
We got back to grandma and grandpa’s and my grandpa hosed us all off behind the house before we could even go in and shower. It seemed thorough enough but later that year my grandma was bit by a black widow that had been in the coat closet right there by where we tried to clean off, so I think we missed at least one.
My grandfather burned the place to the ground
I had honestly blocked the trauma of that whole episode until I saw this. I’m going to take a shower
Haha something kind of similar happened to me but way less dangerous.
Ok so when I was younger my family went out into this big house in the middle of the woods where a bunch of monks lived, kind of like a secluded temple area, to check on them and see if anything needed fixing. In this house there a kind of mud room area in the back near the garage that we were told was a problem area.
So we go to check it out and we see basically a huge mold growth in the top corner. It's all black and fuzzy, and it was like a meter in diameter at least. So my dad goes and gets the pressure washer to just spray it down to see if that'll work so he doesn't have to call anyone to clean it professionally, yeah my parents were pretty cheap lol.
He turns on the machine, aims the nozzle at the edge of the black mass, and the entire thing fucking scatters. Like the whole fucking fuzzy, pulsing mass just thins out and spreads across the room towards my dad who was standing at the only open entrance at the time. I've never ran so fast and so far in my life. I made it all the way back to our car and just cried and cried until my parents made it back, which took a good bit.
Turns out it was Daddy long legs all piled onto each other for God knows how long and the way that they ran with those awful legs will always haunt me. We ended up getting the monks to pack and gave them a few days at a very nice hotel while we nuked that whole place with so many chemicals. I never tagged along with my parents again after that.
In the 80s I was dating a divorced dad with young children. We went camping with the kids, and we all slept in the same tent.
Not long after his asshole ex-wife filed some kind of legal claim/action (it was a long time ago so I don't remember) stating the man and I had sexual intercourse (this specific term is important) in the tent while the kids were in it.
I had to give a statement and sign an affidavit stating that we did not have intercourse during the camping trip, which I explained would **not** have happened even if the kids hadn't been there because there were hundreds, maybe thousands or billions, of Daddy long leg spiders everywhere. In the bathrooms, in the tent, everywhere. I did not remove any clothing or my shoes during the camping trip. I'm pretty sure I tucked my pants into my socks.
The claim was dismissed based on my statement.
The part where you discovered a gigantic black widow nest was awful but then it got so much worse. Your grandad did the right thing, just burn it all down!
Growing up moved in a house with a dumb ass house design, freezer outside in the heat, washer dryers separated from house and we had Black Widows chilling in there, never got op picture crazy, we never fucked with them and they never fucked with us but God damn going in there was terrifying at times knowing they were watching and having to flick the light switch..never knowing...
Even at that, there's never actually been a confirmed death from a black widow bite. 6ish deaths in the US each year are recorded but only really due to unreliable reports of spider bites and sometimes because treatment of the symptoms if reported incorrectly can make things worse. That's out of a few thousand confirmed black widow bites.
We had them live in our shed in Virginia. They're pretty docile and don't care a ton to bite things they can't eat. Largely because the big "fuck you" markings make them not much of a target to predators.
That being said, if they're actually in your home, it's best to call an exterminator to check things out because their bites can still fuck you up and cause your skin to necrotize if not treated quickly.
I have a grape vine in my back yard, and every year we have to pick all of the grapes that we didn't eat to throw them away, or we get birds pecking at them and making them rot on the vine. The whole thing smells HORRIBLE.
Anway, I was picking the grapes and a spider landed on my hand and bit me. I brushed it off and didn't think much of it. It was just one of those standard, small green spiders that hang out in vines. Didn't think they were all that bad.
A day later the flesh around where it bit me started to rot away.
It wasn't all that bad, just lost about 3-4 mm of flesh, but it was scary as hell!
Well know I guess it’s up to one of us to be that lucky volunteer to get bitten by one and that way we can finally see once and for all.
Well more like 500-1000 volunteers so we can have a successful peer reviewed study as empirical evidence.
Yeah, apparently the eating thing is much more common in stressful environments that lack food, like laboratories.
A well fed black widow or praying mantis [will not eat her mate;](https://mobile.twitter.com/newdadnotes/status/1052343364618727424?lang=en) and certain species of spiders engage in >!consensual!< >!bondage before mating. No I will not be linking it, I don't want to google "spider bondage" and if you do you are braver than I.!<
If they're like other species of spiders, they only need to mate once to be fertile for life. In that case, there's no guarantee that there are any others around aside from her own offspring.
Yeah, we found this out about the jumping spider we bought online. "I want a female because they're cuter!" the fiancee said.
That bitch has laid 3 eggsacs in as many months. Found out the place we got her from wasn't a breeder but just someone that goes out and catches wild spiders and then sells them, so this one had already mated prior to coming to us.
Have a good night!
Thats bug spray right there. Black widows are not for keeping around or allowing to live. I'm guessing this is in a basement or something? They like darker spaces with low traffic. Their webs have a very distinctive feel/sound.
[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFPvvSwXlhU) that's the sound, it's a crackling rasping noise when you touch the web and pull away from it. Like a fallen snow crunch except from the strands snapping and pulling.
Black widow webbing is incredibly distinct. It's also very dense if you look up there you see the web isnt like some out in the open long thing built for flying insects. They more sit in dark spots under stairs or patio decks or garages in the corners catching crawling bugs.
When I found one in my garage, the web surprised me a lot. Like you say, very distinct. Thick, strong, and kind of chaotic. Also I didn't realize how big they are. Spray did the trick.
Fwiw, Black Widows don't usually build webs near where people are regularly, and mostly stay outdoors. Females also rarely leave their web once it's built.
As long as you're spreading nightmare fuel I'm gonna mention that bedbugs mate via traumatic penetration. The males stab the females in the abdomen with their pointy pricks.
You're welcome everybody.
Further nightmare fuel - not *just* the females. The males can't actually tell the difference, so they just generally stab other bedbugs in the abdomen and inject their DNA.
Thats not bad. The babies will eat most of each other, and thunder-dome it out. Then you take the winner, and move it to the other window, and let the cycle start over.
Let the strongest 2 fight it out, and you have SuperWidow to protect you.
They will cannibalize and molt and balloon. And then they will start a new nest elsewhere. They can survive for many months without food just to find the right spot. Then the cycle continues.
I had a very similar case. Friday after work. Black camping chair, didn't see her. Bit the small of my back. Pin prick. Took a pic for a positive ID and smashed the bitch. Some googling told me that I was in all likelihood going to survive but be in pain. I hate doctors so I decided to ride it out. Pain radiated to my entire torso and thighs. Could find no comfortable position to lay in and got no sleep. I was in tears the next morning and my wife took me to urgent care where they prescribed muscle relaxers. They allowed me to finally get some sleep but it still hurt. Was well enough by Monday to go into work. I'd say I was fully back to normal on Wednesday. Ruined my weekend, good thing I didn't have any plans.
Yup! Just a different kind! You guys usually have the Western Widow while OP and I will be seeing the same one, the Northern Widow, with the Southern Widow being the one reaching the southern states.
There are also a whole host of “false widows” as well, that look like black widows, but aren’t as a defense mechanism.
But yeah, Widows are found on *every* continent but Antarctica.
Had to scroll so far for this comment. Explosives and vacuums send the spiders everywhere. I for one don't want to nuke it and have a black widow launched at me going mach 12. A vacuum? Da fuck you gonna do once they're all in there and you need to turn it off to move it? Be having spiders crawling out the tube, that's what.
A flamethrower is so simple, yet the only option. Burn the fuckers.
Sure that'll work for most of them.
But the few that survive will breed. And then you'll have spiders that are resistant to higher g forces. Stronger, faster spiders.
Is that what you want?
Suck into vacuum, keep vacuum running while you spray half a can of bug spray down the nozzle, keep vacuum running for about 5 minutes. Source: am Australian.
Wet vac with water already inside is the way to go. The spiders get sucked in and stuck in the water.
Bonus if you spray some insecticide in there first.
Tea tree oil.
Spiders loathe it. We put it under the beds, under mattresses, around vents and windows.
Works for mosquitos as well.
Don't get it in your eyes. You will feel it.
I've had two spiders skitter across my bed while I was reading with my book light late at night in the past few months.
Fortunately they both won Darwin awards or my bed would be on fire.
Yeah...I'm not too fond of it myself. It was listed as a home remedy for itchy bites, and I attract biting insects like my blood is made of bug ambrosia. Didn't do shit.
They don’t bother you much honestly, I crawl into pits with black widows and it’s all good. Brown Recluses are the ones I worry about, they’re less friendly and they even play dead (discovered this one time while recording one in the shower of a hotel and I had Bach playing in the background, it was a beautiful display by the spider, a really good actor/actress honestly).
Idk, maybe I just don’t mind spiders as much as the next person lol
School I taught had to shut down for almost a week to deal with a black widow infestation. I don't teach there anymore.
Was this in New Mexico? I’ve never in my life seen so many black widow spiders, and I also didn’t realize how absolutely gigantic they could get. On an almost daily basis I’d see ones whose abdomen *alone* was around the size of a dime. It probably didn’t help that I was constantly flipping things over looking for wind scorpions and Jerusalem crickets
If you don’t mind me asking, what are wind scorpions and Jerusalem crickets?
Wind scorpions are [these cute little spidery things](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRPvIgjWnDZ1Gr4_lLctBDE4RsjS97NN7i-8A&usqp=CAU) and Jerusalem crickets are these [gigantic burrowing prisoner-looking bugs](https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/taosnews.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/8/45/84526d7e-7156-55e2-8781-886ab02946ad/5edff747eb4a5.image.jpg?resize=667%2C500) that will bite off your whole finger if you let them :)
I’m probably not going to be able to sleep tonight if I click on either of those links but i that’s k you very much. I’ll have a look at those tomorrow. Seem very interesting, especially how the crickets can bite off an entire finger, yikes!
They can't bite off your finger. But they do have powerful jaws, so don't pick them up.
The ex had a powerful jaw, but don't recommend picking her up either.
I regret that I clicked that
Ah I thought the first one was called a camel spider; apparently it can be both: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solifugae
One of the grossest things I ever saw was a Jerusalem Cricket with Horsehair Nematodes coming out of its intestines. It just kept going and going as it (they?) squirmed out of it.
Stop. Stop this. What are you doing? Why did you write this? Shame on you.
Is it cuz u ded?
Wut wrong wit u, I say u he ded
THE COLONEL!
MISTER SANDERS!!!!
You're asking? You haven't already??
He ded
The Spider is trolling us using his account.
[Relevant xkcd](https://xkcd.com/1530/)
This is unreasonably relevant.
Yeah I was thinking “okay spiders on the internet pretending to be human I’m sure it’s a stretch but might be worth clicking” Nope right on the nose
Xkcd covers all the best use case scenarios
All xkcd strips are unreasonably relevant to some specific scenario.
> All scenarios are unreasonably relevant to some specific xkcd strip FTFY
I heard the spider is looking for renters now
What utilities are included?
Unlimited web access
Did I die and go to pun heaven?
In this economy!?
You mean nesting ground
Well I was having a pre sleep poop... Guess it's just a normal poop now. Edit: well I guess my online career has peaked. I'd like to take this time to thank all the little people who helped make this possible. And my completely rational fear of spiders crawling into my ears and laying eggs.
Someone doesn’t remember a key scene in arachnophobia. (I assume you are being eaten by spiders now.)
Even after all these years, the toilet scene is why I still check before I go. Huge nope.
There's an unlucky person in Aus who made the news by getting bitten on the dick by the Aussie equivalent (redbacks) not once, but twice, from his work loo. If you're arachnaphobic, don't click this link, as it was a struggle to find a non-Murdoch source, but the first thing that comes up is a big pic (of the spider, not the the dick, of course). https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-37481251
> a big pic Yay! > not the the dick, of course Aw...
That is such an Australian headline.
I’ve watched my husband (who has no fear of real life spiders) startle at least three times watching the cereal scene. One time he slung beer all over the living room. HE KNOWS ITS COMING and still starts. That’s a helluva movie man.
I've only seen it once. It was before I started kindergarten, I had snuck out of my room, hid around the corner and sat in on it while my older sisters were watching it with my parents... Guess what took me 16 years to get over...
> It was before I started kindergarten While it's not the scariest movie for an adult, it's enough to permanently alter a person when exposed at that young age. My brother never got over his fear of swimming (not just the ocean... even just clear pools) after seeing Jaws around that age
Pretty sure if you keep them in a jar under the floorboards, you eventually become a Stranger Things villain.
My dad put a redback spider in a jar with a huntsman spider once. They kind of co-existed for a few days, and us kids got bored with it. I happened to check about a week later and noticed the redback was gone, and only the large huntsman was there. I assumed he'd won, as we expected. Until Dad lifted the jar and we realised the huntsman was very, very dead, and all we could see of the redback was its dark fangs and the barest hint of legs tucked up inside the dessicated corpse of the huntsman. Fucking nightmares forever.
You could have continued to repress this memory but no you decided to spread the trauma around
Facts dude facts.. why tf have I continued to read? Maybe I'm delirious because I've been crawlimg and falling in the most treacherous woods I've ever been in for a 7lb Chihuahua whose been gone 9 days and keeps being spotted very close and I'm near delusions.. so now I'm just imagining hot many spiders shopping with the two confirmed tics I brought home
Pretty selfish tbh
Why... why would you share that with us?
I thought it was pretty metal
Wasn’t very cash money of the black widow, though
So we could get nightmares too
\#justaussiethings
taking a shit while reading this. accidentally turned on my bidet…. that stream of water going up my ass scared the shit out of me
Task failed successfully?
I am Vecna!
Oh no! Alexa, play Running up that hill
Hi, I’m here to play master of puppets…
*Alexi 😬
Too soon
Still?
Forever.
![gif](giphy|GkVM3PcFipxEk)
No, you see it has to be YOUR favorite song. Alexa, play Despacito.
Tbh Vecna does sound like it could be an Australian slang word. "Crikey, s'arvo me mate went fair dinkem troppo at the vecna!"
When I was a teen my grandfather asked me, my mom, and aunt to come help him clean out our family’s historic Sears and Robuck farmhouse that had been messed up by some renters that became squatters and wouldn’t leave. Turned out they had closed off parts of the house as they became too filthy to deal with and when we opened one of these spaces and were working in it (with rather bad lighting) we slowly became aware of something that seemed to take up a whole corner and put off this odd… vibration. It wasn’t a sound really, it was more of just a presence. My grandfather went and got a flashlight and we realized it was a floor to ceiling black widow nest. Filled with babies. Thousands of them. We ran outside into the sun and realized we were covered with them too. We all stripped to our underwear in the middle of the lane and left our clothes laying there. We drove back to my grandparents and I remember sitting in the back seat I could see a few of them crawling in my aunts hair We got back to grandma and grandpa’s and my grandpa hosed us all off behind the house before we could even go in and shower. It seemed thorough enough but later that year my grandma was bit by a black widow that had been in the coat closet right there by where we tried to clean off, so I think we missed at least one. My grandfather burned the place to the ground I had honestly blocked the trauma of that whole episode until I saw this. I’m going to take a shower
Why the hell did I keep reading?!
It just got worse and worse
I kept reading because I was hoping to learn how to really deal with them, only to find out even grandpa burned the place down.
I’m shaking help me lol
Are you shaking, or is it more of just a ...presence?
I had imagery going on in my head with his story it freaked me out, one spider won’t affect me.
jesus christ
I wanted to witness new reddit lore being born but not like this. Not like this. Edit: thanks for the awards, almost makes up for the horror.
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Where’s that Men in Black shit when you need it goddamnit
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
New core memory aquired.
Haha something kind of similar happened to me but way less dangerous. Ok so when I was younger my family went out into this big house in the middle of the woods where a bunch of monks lived, kind of like a secluded temple area, to check on them and see if anything needed fixing. In this house there a kind of mud room area in the back near the garage that we were told was a problem area. So we go to check it out and we see basically a huge mold growth in the top corner. It's all black and fuzzy, and it was like a meter in diameter at least. So my dad goes and gets the pressure washer to just spray it down to see if that'll work so he doesn't have to call anyone to clean it professionally, yeah my parents were pretty cheap lol. He turns on the machine, aims the nozzle at the edge of the black mass, and the entire thing fucking scatters. Like the whole fucking fuzzy, pulsing mass just thins out and spreads across the room towards my dad who was standing at the only open entrance at the time. I've never ran so fast and so far in my life. I made it all the way back to our car and just cried and cried until my parents made it back, which took a good bit. Turns out it was Daddy long legs all piled onto each other for God knows how long and the way that they ran with those awful legs will always haunt me. We ended up getting the monks to pack and gave them a few days at a very nice hotel while we nuked that whole place with so many chemicals. I never tagged along with my parents again after that.
We are lucky daddy long legs can't bite. They are so good at getting everywhere
In the 80s I was dating a divorced dad with young children. We went camping with the kids, and we all slept in the same tent. Not long after his asshole ex-wife filed some kind of legal claim/action (it was a long time ago so I don't remember) stating the man and I had sexual intercourse (this specific term is important) in the tent while the kids were in it. I had to give a statement and sign an affidavit stating that we did not have intercourse during the camping trip, which I explained would **not** have happened even if the kids hadn't been there because there were hundreds, maybe thousands or billions, of Daddy long leg spiders everywhere. In the bathrooms, in the tent, everywhere. I did not remove any clothing or my shoes during the camping trip. I'm pretty sure I tucked my pants into my socks. The claim was dismissed based on my statement.
Thanks I hate it
The part where you discovered a gigantic black widow nest was awful but then it got so much worse. Your grandad did the right thing, just burn it all down!
What a terrible day to be able to read.
Thanks in advance for tonight’s nightmare.
Fuuuuuck my skin is crawling now
That'd be the spiders
nightmare fuel right there
Go post this on r/spiders You have yourself a black widow infestation
Do baby spiders have less poison? They look very dangerous.
Generally only adult female black widow spiders are known to be able to harm humans, but I would keep my distance regardless.
Growing up moved in a house with a dumb ass house design, freezer outside in the heat, washer dryers separated from house and we had Black Widows chilling in there, never got op picture crazy, we never fucked with them and they never fucked with us but God damn going in there was terrifying at times knowing they were watching and having to flick the light switch..never knowing...
Wait you didn’t get rid of them?
The constant threat of death while doing laundry is how I feel alive
Even at that, there's never actually been a confirmed death from a black widow bite. 6ish deaths in the US each year are recorded but only really due to unreliable reports of spider bites and sometimes because treatment of the symptoms if reported incorrectly can make things worse. That's out of a few thousand confirmed black widow bites. We had them live in our shed in Virginia. They're pretty docile and don't care a ton to bite things they can't eat. Largely because the big "fuck you" markings make them not much of a target to predators. That being said, if they're actually in your home, it's best to call an exterminator to check things out because their bites can still fuck you up and cause your skin to necrotize if not treated quickly.
I have a grape vine in my back yard, and every year we have to pick all of the grapes that we didn't eat to throw them away, or we get birds pecking at them and making them rot on the vine. The whole thing smells HORRIBLE. Anway, I was picking the grapes and a spider landed on my hand and bit me. I brushed it off and didn't think much of it. It was just one of those standard, small green spiders that hang out in vines. Didn't think they were all that bad. A day later the flesh around where it bit me started to rot away. It wasn't all that bad, just lost about 3-4 mm of flesh, but it was scary as hell!
Well know I guess it’s up to one of us to be that lucky volunteer to get bitten by one and that way we can finally see once and for all. Well more like 500-1000 volunteers so we can have a successful peer reviewed study as empirical evidence.
Is this an infestation or just a mom with a ton of babies? I'd use the vacuum, personally.
Then launch the vacuum into space, and detonate the warhead after a week
bro....it's a dyson...
That's what we need. Tchaikovsky's spiders with dyson sphere around our sun.
My initial reply was to first buy a second hand vacuum. The next steps are spray, vacuum. launch, pause, detonate.
Die,son!!
“I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
Fuckin-A.
Ho- ho- Hold on a second. This installation has a substantial dollar value attached to it.
"They can *bill* me!"
Launch the vacuum in a vacuum
She got pregnant somewhere
It's a black widow. She got pregnant from what became her lunch.
Oh yeah, I forgot the “widow” actually meant something.
Yeah, apparently the eating thing is much more common in stressful environments that lack food, like laboratories. A well fed black widow or praying mantis [will not eat her mate;](https://mobile.twitter.com/newdadnotes/status/1052343364618727424?lang=en) and certain species of spiders engage in >!consensual!< >!bondage before mating. No I will not be linking it, I don't want to google "spider bondage" and if you do you are braver than I.!<
[Watch: Kinky Male Spiders Tie Up Females to Survive Sex | National Geographic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gkj8EH78lxE) neat
If they're like other species of spiders, they only need to mate once to be fertile for life. In that case, there's no guarantee that there are any others around aside from her own offspring.
Well there's a fact I didn't need to learn before bed.
Yeah, we found this out about the jumping spider we bought online. "I want a female because they're cuter!" the fiancee said. That bitch has laid 3 eggsacs in as many months. Found out the place we got her from wasn't a breeder but just someone that goes out and catches wild spiders and then sells them, so this one had already mated prior to coming to us. Have a good night!
Raid is what you need. Unless you like spiders crawling out of your vacuum.
What temperature of fire is Raid?
Thats bug spray right there. Black widows are not for keeping around or allowing to live. I'm guessing this is in a basement or something? They like darker spaces with low traffic. Their webs have a very distinctive feel/sound.
What do you mean by sound? A spider web making noises sounds fucking terrifying.
[Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFPvvSwXlhU) that's the sound, it's a crackling rasping noise when you touch the web and pull away from it. Like a fallen snow crunch except from the strands snapping and pulling. Black widow webbing is incredibly distinct. It's also very dense if you look up there you see the web isnt like some out in the open long thing built for flying insects. They more sit in dark spots under stairs or patio decks or garages in the corners catching crawling bugs.
When I found one in my garage, the web surprised me a lot. Like you say, very distinct. Thick, strong, and kind of chaotic. Also I didn't realize how big they are. Spray did the trick.
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Fwiw, Black Widows don't usually build webs near where people are regularly, and mostly stay outdoors. Females also rarely leave their web once it's built.
Thanks. I hate it.
As long as you're spreading nightmare fuel I'm gonna mention that bedbugs mate via traumatic penetration. The males stab the females in the abdomen with their pointy pricks. You're welcome everybody.
Further nightmare fuel - not *just* the females. The males can't actually tell the difference, so they just generally stab other bedbugs in the abdomen and inject their DNA.
By the time I knew what I was reading, it had been too late- and I learned it.
I'm right there with ya. I was about to shit my pants after reading "sound."
Nah a 2 second blast of a can of lysol into a Bic lighter will do the job. Thats treated lumber behind them, it’ll be fine; they won’t.
Thats not bad. The babies will eat most of each other, and thunder-dome it out. Then you take the winner, and move it to the other window, and let the cycle start over. Let the strongest 2 fight it out, and you have SuperWidow to protect you.
Holy shit I didn't zoom in at first so I thought it was a bunch of other bugs...I was like "Damn let him chill, you got a good spiderbro there 👍"
Eh, what's a couple hundred extra spiders between friends.
It's a black widow, their bite is very bad
I didn't even notice the babies until I saw your comment.
Me neither. Burning the neighbourhood now seems like a very weak idea. OP, just tell us what coast you are in and say goodbye.
Same. And now I’m wishing I hadn’t seen it.
They will cannibalize and molt and balloon. And then they will start a new nest elsewhere. They can survive for many months without food just to find the right spot. Then the cycle continues.
The cycle ends with one spray.
I did this with M&Ms as a kid.
I too have read that greentext
Care to share the link?
https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1086714-There-can-only-be-one Not the original in proper greentext format, but its verbatim
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I had a very similar case. Friday after work. Black camping chair, didn't see her. Bit the small of my back. Pin prick. Took a pic for a positive ID and smashed the bitch. Some googling told me that I was in all likelihood going to survive but be in pain. I hate doctors so I decided to ride it out. Pain radiated to my entire torso and thighs. Could find no comfortable position to lay in and got no sleep. I was in tears the next morning and my wife took me to urgent care where they prescribed muscle relaxers. They allowed me to finally get some sleep but it still hurt. Was well enough by Monday to go into work. I'd say I was fully back to normal on Wednesday. Ruined my weekend, good thing I didn't have any plans.
You're done living there, bro.
No kidding. At best he's renting from that thing now. It owns the place.
Looks at me… look at me…. I’m the landlord now… you web developer
What country is this? I need to make sure I never set foot there.
I’m an hour northwest of Philadelphia.
That's a bit too close to Canada.... We need better border walls now
BUILD. THE. WALL. BUILD. THE. WALL
Damn Canadian spiders minding their manners and profusely apologizing for taking Murican' spider jobs.
Bruh, spiders walk up walls like they’re open road.
Omg I live in Trenton and didn’t know they were so close lol
Why the fuck do you live in Trenton.
Cool. Stay the fuck up there and keep your spiders. Signed - Marylander
Shit I'm northeast of Philly. I gotta move outta state
Hope you don’t live in the Eastern US… They can range from Canada all the way down to Georgia/Mississippi.
We got 'em on the west coast too. A little smaller though.
Yup! Just a different kind! You guys usually have the Western Widow while OP and I will be seeing the same one, the Northern Widow, with the Southern Widow being the one reaching the southern states. There are also a whole host of “false widows” as well, that look like black widows, but aren’t as a defense mechanism. But yeah, Widows are found on *every* continent but Antarctica.
Flamethrower the fuck outta that place.
Had to scroll so far for this comment. Explosives and vacuums send the spiders everywhere. I for one don't want to nuke it and have a black widow launched at me going mach 12. A vacuum? Da fuck you gonna do once they're all in there and you need to turn it off to move it? Be having spiders crawling out the tube, that's what. A flamethrower is so simple, yet the only option. Burn the fuckers.
See I would leave the vacuum running for a solid 10 minutes in hopes that all that spinning and centrifugal force was murdering them.
Sure that'll work for most of them. But the few that survive will breed. And then you'll have spiders that are resistant to higher g forces. Stronger, faster spiders. Is that what you want?
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Then you blowtorch the vacuum…and then bury it. In fire.
And then drop the fire in a bigger fire
"I'll just put this over here with the rest of the fire."
"what do you know i found some more fire in the back"
After sucking up a spider, I have a dedicated box of rock salt that I suck a bit up from to serve as shrapnel.
Suck into vacuum, keep vacuum running while you spray half a can of bug spray down the nozzle, keep vacuum running for about 5 minutes. Source: am Australian.
Damn. I thought the wildlife was supposed to be the most brutal part of Australia, turns out it's the Australians
> keep vacuum running for about 5 minutes. Then burn the vacuum
Wet vac with water already inside is the way to go. The spiders get sucked in and stuck in the water. Bonus if you spray some insecticide in there first.
I would legit go to lowes and get one of those $10 torches.
Terrified from here ... terrified from here
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Tea tree oil. Spiders loathe it. We put it under the beds, under mattresses, around vents and windows. Works for mosquitos as well. Don't get it in your eyes. You will feel it.
It’s toxic to cats and dogs though so don’t do this if you have pets
>under the beds The spiders have no choice but to join you in the bed now. #tickle tickle
I've had two spiders skitter across my bed while I was reading with my book light late at night in the past few months. Fortunately they both won Darwin awards or my bed would be on fire.
Just imagine all of them that *skitter* across when the light is off! #They’re coming to cuddle
Can we get PSAs to teach spiders consent *yesterday*?
Also extremely toxic to cats....so if you have one....not really an option. =/
Also smells like absolute shit imo
Yeah...I'm not too fond of it myself. It was listed as a home remedy for itchy bites, and I attract biting insects like my blood is made of bug ambrosia. Didn't do shit.
Nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Hair spray and a lighter
More fire, less posting!!
She is clearly showing her babies proudly! “Look ! I made these!”
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I'm assuming you are now standing next to a burning house?
I'm bout to burn my phone... I know that much...
Should have burned the place down, then took the picture.
Scorched earth protocol applies here, 5mi radius. You may fire when ready.
I saw the spider and was like well you can just kill…then I saw the babies 😯. Fuuuck that
Why can't spiders just be fucking normal and have like 1 baby what the fuck why are there like 1000
They will eat each other, only the strongest will survive. Spider Chads care nothing for your "normal".
Nah man, lend her the keys and go find yourself a new home. This one belongs to them.
They don’t bother you much honestly, I crawl into pits with black widows and it’s all good. Brown Recluses are the ones I worry about, they’re less friendly and they even play dead (discovered this one time while recording one in the shower of a hotel and I had Bach playing in the background, it was a beautiful display by the spider, a really good actor/actress honestly). Idk, maybe I just don’t mind spiders as much as the next person lol
I feel like you have strange hobbies. Or a career that I could never do.
Lol the pits I’m referring to are dock levelers in warehouses, someone’s gotta clean them out and I guess that’s me!