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It's Spider Season!

Rollo Tamasi

Rollo Tamasi

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I sit here on my back porch and I look at this spider outside my screen.
He seems to get bigger everytime I look at him.
He has long skinny legs that are yellow and black alternating.
He has a big white face and a cone shaped backside.
I don't know what he is but he's scary looking.

There are lots of spiders this year.
Don't know if it's the hot humid rainy weather (more than usual) or something else.
I go out and mow the lawn and go between the trees and get tangled in spider webs all over the place.
Even my wife says that sometimes she thinks she has spiders all over her when she's in the garden.

We have 2 black racer snakes that live on our property.
They are good, they keep all the other snakes away.
Sometimes they jump and run when we approach them, scaring us half to death.
Or are we doing that to them?
I almost ran one over with the mower one day, he darts away, then sits up and looks at me right in the face.
I felt he was saying, "hey, what's going on? you almost killed me".
I told him I was sorry and went the other way.

So, this spider is still here and I'm wondering when I'll get around to brushing him away with the broom.

What's going on in your back yard?
 
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I know, I have ruined a lot of their webs as I walk through yards and I have been stung by one.
 
I HATE spiders!!! They're so gross. I'm even too scared to kill them- I make Matt do it.
The only thing I hate more than spiders is cockroaches.
 
You're right, it's spider season. The last couple weeks or so, they're all over the house, porch, yard...everywhere. I'm not particularly scared of them but we have a lot of venomous ones here in Colorado and since i don't know a whole lot about them or which is which...i kill em'. I know that supposedly they're friendly and eat other bugs, but I don't want to get bit. My sister got bit by a brown recluse and her leg just looked horrible, and my son got bit once when he was sleeping and it messed him up pretty good for a couple weeks. So it's the death penalty for them if i see them in the house.

Miller season just ended, i wonder if that has anything to do with how prolific they are right now?
 
Eora said:
Ha! You guys have nothing to complain about until you come down here!
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you forget florida has three deadly spiders, black widow, brown and black recluse, and a few other ones that bite but can also cause an infection with that bite.
 
allenwynne said:
I sit here on my back porch and I look at this spider outside my screen.
He seems to get bigger everytime I look at him.
He has long skinny legs that are yellow and black alternating.
He has a big white face and a cone shaped backside.
I don't know what he is but he's scary looking.
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He is probably a she. In spiders, males are usually way smaller than the girls.
 
Eora said:
Ha! You guys have nothing to complain about until you come down here!
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Right, you guys have some crazy wildlife. I wonder if I'd be a little less in love with spiders if I'd live in Australia. Our spiders are annoying at worst. They are all harmless, you must have some crazy luck to get bitten, and if you do it'll be less than a mosquito bite.
 
What's the verse that forbids killing?

Remember they are our elders - made before man...and we are in their way
 
Claudya said:
Right, you guys have some crazy wildlife. I wonder if I'd be a little less in love with spiders if I'd live in Australia. Our spiders are annoying at worst. They are all harmless, you must have some crazy luck to get bitten, and if you do it'll be less than a bite.
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most snowbirds or non natives think florida natural state is this artificial one that we have, rather its mosquitos, gators, snakes, crocs, black bears and swamp and spiders.
 
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