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Here are a couple I took photos of at my house in WV .

 

This jumper was inside but I helped him outside. I don’t kill jumping spiders. 
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And this is a Wolf Spider on my door mat. I don’t kill them either unless they get into the house. I do try to escort them out. 
She thought I couldn’t see her on the mat. 
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Is that a black widow? In my garage I have "fake black widows" which look like one, but don't have the red hourglass and are not venomous.

 

Late summer is when you will most often find spiders inside the house because they're all scurrying around looking to get laid before the season ends. In my area the two we see most often are the giant house spider (really big dude with long legs, considered the fastest-running spider at 3 feet/second) and the European garden spider (they stay outdoors, and look nasty but they're actually quite docile).

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Living next to a field, there are Black Widows everywhere.  At least once a week I go out just after dark with a flashlight and bug killer.  They set up webs all along the wood fences, around the bushes by the house and around the house.  Find them in all sizes, little tiny ones and rather large ones.  They are literally everywhere.  I have little dogs that I would prefer not to play with the venomous spiders.

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To try and treat my arachnophobia whenever I see a tarantula I catch it and send it to a researcher in Baton Rouge. 
Still not fond of spiders.

 

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Back in Florida, we had Huntsmans, the largest spider in North America (we called them "doorknob spiders" for whatever reason). They were big enough you could hear them on the ceiling in the middle of the night. Never bothered me too much until I woke up spitting legs. I had real issues with eight-legged critters for a while.

 

Fast forward thirty years, and here in Wyoming I love my spiders. They keep flies and gnats down to nothing, and they are well-behaved. Nature's free, self-sustaining, non-toxic, biodegradable pest control. We have several varieties of wolfies and some orb weavers. Once in awhile a wolf spider of one flavor or another gets in the house, but we just round them up and relocate them when we can. Only seen a couple black widows out here, and I leave them alone...really only dangerous to those with allergies (same folks who have to beware bees and wasps).

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As long as the spiders stay off my pillow and the kitchen counters they can stay.

 

And why didn't I think of this when I worked in the office?

 

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1 hour ago, Subdeacon Joe said:

 

Inside.

 

1 hour ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said:

 

 

And this is a Wolf Spider on my door mat. I don’t kill them either unless they get into the house. I do try to escort them out. 
She thought I couldn’t see her on the mat. 
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You too need to get together. One of the favorite snacks for a wolf spider is a black widow spider.

Learned that when I relocated a wolf out of the laundry room to the garden wall and a black widow had set up shop in a gap under a brick. Wolf made a beeline for the widow and pretty fascinating to watch the feints and jabs as wolf got in position behind the black widow.

Boom one last lunge and it was over. AFAIK wolfs are harmless to people but whatever it did to the widow caused a few convulsions and kicks and lunch was served.

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56 minutes ago, Gateway Kid SASS# 70038 Life said:

 

You too need to get together. One of the favorite snacks for a wolf spider is a black widow spider.

Learned that when I relocated a wolf out of the laundry room to the garden wall and a black widow had set up shop in a gap under a brick. Wolf made a beeline for the widow and pretty fascinating to watch the feints and jabs as wolf got in position behind the black widow.

Boom one last lunge and it was over. AFAIK wolfs are harmless to people but whatever it did to the widow caused a few convulsions and kicks and lunch was served.

Regards

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Gateway Kid

I used to kill Wolf spiders until I read up on them. They are pretty docile but will bite if agitated. Not sure how to agitate one so I just leave them be unless indoors then I try to herd them outside. 
I had a large female in my basement and she did a pretty good job keeping other bugs at bay, but one day I found her all curled up in a ball not sure what killed her but at that point I sprayed the basement down with ant, roach and spider killer. Anything that kills a Wolf spider can’t be good. 

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We got spiders no end.  The only ones I can even remotely tolerate are tarantulas, a pair that came with the house.  I named them Boris and Bella.  (the big one is Boris, the small one is Bella, but I have no idea what gender they are really).  They eat other spiders and some bugs of all kinds.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

We got spiders no end.  The only ones I can even remotely tolerate are tarantulas, a pair that came with the house.  I named them Boris and Bella.  (the big one is Boris, the small one is Bella, but I have no idea what gender they are really).  They eat other spiders and some bugs of all kinds.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd always be thinking of that Bond movie. Outside is fine, inside not! 

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We get magnum sized wolf spiders this time of year in southern Mizzoorah.  I enjoy seeing them build their webs around my front door and on our patio.  I have videos of me teaching our kids and grandkids how to catch bugs and throw them into the webs and then watching the spiders run up the web and wrap up dinner and breakfast!

 

As much as I appreciate them, I admit that I don’t like walking into their webs while walking through the woods before dawn to go dove hunting.

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We have brown recluse (fiddle back) and black widows here....may of them.  We also have wolf spiders, which I don't like because they are very fast and startle the bejabbers out of me, and they are just totally sci fi ugly.  There are all sizes and shapes of spiders around and I  am a practicing and devout arachnophobe.

 

I can live with them in the yard, but if I find them in the house, garage, or shop they will die.

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8 hours ago, Crazy Gun Barney, SASS #2428 said:

Living next to a field, there are Black Widows everywhere.  At least once a week I go out just after dark with a flashlight and bug killer.  They set up webs all along the wood fences, around the bushes by the house and around the house.  Find them in all sizes, little tiny ones and rather large ones.  They are literally everywhere.  I have little dogs that I would prefer not to play with the venomous spiders.

We have the same situation here in Ca.  Any night I can go out and spray a collection of Boone and Crocket size black widows on my entry walkway and sometimes on my door handle.  Lately we've been getting entirely white albinos with just a light orange hourglass and some barring on the legs. 

 

I farm pecans, and at times the treetops are filled with black widows.  When I'm in the pruning tower, I often have one or two inside my shirt or pantlegs.  But being 36 feet in the air, cutting big branches  with a chainsaw, I have more to worry about than the spiders.  I've been bitten a number of times, but the outdoor spiders don't give me a systemic reaction, only tissue necrosis and open, slow healing sores.  But FYI, a bite from an indoor black widow requires immediate medical attention, however, because they feed less often and deliver a much more potent venom dose.  

 

Here's one of the albinos.  I had it preserved in alcohol, so it has a bit of discoloration.  Living specimens are almost pure white.

 

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Those black widows are fast. Luckily, I have always been a bit faster. :D

We had a subcontractor at work get bit working on one of our trains. Black widows seem to prefer to build their webs where there is air flow. Like vent intakes on trains. 
The guy stuck his hand in a dark spot to feel for a piece of hardware and was bit. 
He was out 6 months due to nerve damage and rehab. 
The one thing I recall him saying when he came in to report it was “Damn, but those things are fast!”

We had them everywhere at a couple of the rail yards I worked at. Luckily, everyone knew about them and were cautious. The only bite we ever had was that contractor. 

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Black Widows are normally reclusive and will avoid contact with larger animals.  But when a female is guarding egg sacs, or she is attacked, all bets are off.  They come out FAST and biting aggressively.  Soapy water kills them quickly -- especially a spritz of Simple Green.  For longer lasting spray application use Fipronil as directed.  An application lasts about 3 weeks.  

They seem to love engine compartments and wheel wells.  Carb cleaner spray works wonders!

 

When you can catch them out on their web, just use a stick to break the web between them and cover, then tap the stick on the ground to knock them off where you can step on them.  But they'll be mad and defensive then, so watch your pant legs.  

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21 hours ago, J-BAR #18287 said:

We get magnum sized wolf spiders this time of year in southern Mizzoorah.  I enjoy seeing them build their webs around my front door and on our patio.  I have videos of me teaching our kids and grandkids how to catch bugs and throw them into the webs and then watching the spiders run up the web and wrap up dinner and breakfast!

 

As much as I appreciate them, I admit that I don’t like walking into their webs while walking through the woods before dawn to go dove hunting.

We have 2 good sized Wolff Spider webs in our back yard now.

They are impressive. 

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As I was TRYING to say: We insured lumber yards.  One of our dealers also had rental properties, which led to one of the worst workers compensation cases we ever paid.  Employee went into the crawlspace of a tenant's house & got bit by a brown recluse.  We paid for multiple surgeries to remove necrotic tissue.  It would have been cheaper if the guy had lost his arm (which was a distinct possibility).  These little suckers are nothing to joke about.

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