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Posted: 8/30/2015 9:52:40 AM EDT

Found this today in a wheel barrel leaning against my shed. I find them all the

time and no matter hard hard I try, I just can't get rid of them.

Posted: 8/30/2015 10:20:44 AM EDT

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I find those dam things in the photo eyes on the garage door openers all the time my guys really look before grabbing parts ..

Posted: 8/30/2015 10:31:18 AM EDT

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Where is the picture of it squished?

One time I found a black widow INSIDE my pool filter canister. The damned thing was in the top of the cover, how it got there I don't know, how it survived in there I have no idea, but I did kill it with fire.

Posted: 8/30/2015 10:56:23 AM EDT

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I find widow spiders pretty regularly.

Which reminds me, I need to fill up my gas cans.

Posted: 8/30/2015 11:13:50 AM EDT

[#4]

I have the same problem here at "Brown Widow Ranch".....

another one bites the dust.

Posted: 8/30/2015 11:34:59 AM EDT

[#5]

lil ortho max home defense kills them.

seen a few here. but again. its spider haven here. when i mow those big brown egg sack carring fuckers go running in every direction. try to trim the hedges ohh look..neon green widow looking spiders..head to the wood shed..yip pull off sticky yellow banana spider web from your face.

lay down to sleep..look up and theres a 6 inch house spider on the ceiling.

its awesome!

Posted: 8/30/2015 2:38:33 PM EDT

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only thing i hate about florida. born and raised here but i have never gotten used to this part. i am 6'5" tall so it doesn't matter if i am leading or following i am the one with spider web on my face dancing around like a girl.

Posted: 8/30/2015 3:42:10 PM EDT

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lil ortho max home defense kills them.

seen a few here. but again. its spider haven here. when i mow those big brown egg sack carring fuckers go running in every direction. try to trim the hedges ohh look..neon green widow looking spiders..head to the wood shed..yip pull off sticky yellow banana spider web from your face.

lay down to sleep..look up and theres a 6 inch house spider on the ceiling.

its awesome!

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LOL .... they're just bio insect control

Posted: 8/30/2015 4:07:24 PM EDT

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i don't let many things get to me, but you might remember a few years ago I got bit by what was most

likely a Brown Widow. Messed me up for over a week. That thing bit me 4 times.

I kill very time I see one and always douse their eggs with raid.

Posted: 8/30/2015 4:37:21 PM EDT

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only thing i hate about florida. born and raised here but i have never gotten used to this part. i am 6'5" tall so it doesn't matter if i am leading or following i am the one with spider web on my face dancing around like a girl.

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yip pull off sticky yellow banana spider web from your face.

only thing i hate about florida. born and raised here but i have never gotten used to this part. i am 6'5" tall so it doesn't matter if i am leading or following i am the one with spider web on my face dancing around like a girl.

Instant NINJA!!!

Posted: 8/30/2015 8:53:03 PM EDT

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They're everywhere!

Posted: 8/30/2015 8:59:19 PM EDT

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Yep, we had a few outbreaks of them but have been keeping them in check with regular spraying. As soon as we see the little ones start to show up along our fence we have the whole exterior and fence sprayed, and we dont see them for 2-3 months.

Posted: 8/30/2015 9:03:06 PM EDT

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They (spiders) must have hatched out not long ago because I sure saw a lot more than

is normal when I was mowing today. They had a rough time with the lawnmower.

Go out and shine a flashlight into the grass and you can see their eyes reflecting. Don't

let your Wife or Kids see it.

Posted: 8/31/2015 1:39:44 AM EDT

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You're not alone. 100's of them here. Never saw a one before Katrina. I've found them in the mail box, all over my barn. I can tell you this, they eat the hell out of wolf spiders.

Posted: 8/31/2015 1:40:48 AM EDT

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They (spiders) must have hatched out not long ago because I sure saw a lot more than

is normal when I was mowing today. They had a rough time with the lawnmower.

Go out and shine a flashlight into the grass and you can see their eyes reflecting. Don't

let your Wife or Kids see it.

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Those are the common wolf spiders you see.

Posted: 8/31/2015 12:13:31 PM EDT

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Found one in my golf bag last year...almost set my garage on fire.

Posted: 8/31/2015 12:18:00 PM EDT

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They (spiders) must have hatched out not long ago because I sure saw a lot more than

is normal when I was mowing today. They had a rough time with the lawnmower.

Go out and shine a flashlight into the grass and you can see their eyes reflecting. Don't

let your Wife or Kids see it.

Those are the common wolf spiders you see.

I know that. I was not trying to infer that they brown widows.

Posted: 8/31/2015 8:11:13 PM EDT

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so this one time I'm camping in the ONF...wake up in the morning go to grab ma boots a spider the size a fuckin crab runs into my boot. mind you the boot was inside the tent the whole night which means the spider was in their with me...took the boot put it on the picnic table....got a 36 inch crow bar out and beat the boot like I was Gordon fuckin Freeman....30 minutes later an old lady comes up and says "you seem like a nice young man...why were you beating that boot with a crow bar?" I told her about the spider and she dead pans "carry on!" walks away drinking her coffee.

Posted: 8/31/2015 8:17:27 PM EDT

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so this one time I'm camping in the ONF...wake up in the morning go to grab ma boots a spider the size a fuckin crab runs into my boot. mind you the boot was inside the tent the whole night which means the spider was in their with me...took the boot put it on the picnic table....got a 36 inch crow bar out and beat the boot like I was Gordon fuckin Freeman....30 minutes later an old lady comes up and says "you seem like a nice young man...why were you beating that boot with a crow bar?" I told her about the spider and she dead pans "carry on!" walks away drinking her coffee.

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Good story

One morning I was walking out to my treestand in ONF and walked through a spiderweb in

the dark. It was all over me. I treked on and climbed up in my stand and pulled up my bow.

Laid the bow across my lap and made quiet.

The sun came up and I was on the alert for deer. After a while I looked down and saw a big

Banana Spider was on my bow along with a nice piece of web and a yellow substance.

I know that they are harmless but it scared the crap out of me. Was not a successful hunt that

day.

Posted: 8/31/2015 8:34:25 PM EDT

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Whenever someone is walking behind me in the woods, they always ask what I was muttering. I always tell'em "Fuckin' spiders, because I always walk into a damn web or 5."

To demonstrate how much we influence our kids, my youngest nephew- when he was 12- was heard by his dad to say... "Fuckin' spiders" when we were squirrel hunting.

His dad chose to ignore it, but raised hell with me later.

Posted: 8/31/2015 11:22:03 PM EDT

[#20]

Spider population really booms this time of year.

I work as a land surveyor, and we have to "cut-line" (of sight) through the woods/swamp, whatever, to establish baselines for our surveys.

We end up hiking up & down these lines repeatedly until the job is complete, so do the spiders! They're perfect fly-catching corridors through the woods.

You'd be amazed how quick a banana spider can rebuild his web, after I walk down line with it wrapped around my face.

The BEST is when my wide-brimmed hat blocks my view enough so the web gets wrapped around the top of my head w/o my knowing. That is... until I see just the LEGS OF THE HAND-SIZED SPIDER PEEKING OVER THE BRIM, 2" FROM MY EYEBALLS!

Posted: 8/31/2015 11:48:17 PM EDT

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Good story

One morning I was walking out to my treestand in ONF and walked through a spiderweb in

the dark. It was all over me. I treked on and climbed up in my stand and pulled up my bow.

Laid the bow across my lap and made quiet.

The sun came up and I was on the alert for deer. After a while I looked down and saw a big

Banana Spider was on my bow along with a nice piece of web and a yellow substance.

I know that they are harmless but it scared the crap out of me. Was not a successful hunt that

day.

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so this one time I'm camping in the ONF...wake up in the morning go to grab ma boots a spider the size a fuckin crab runs into my boot. mind you the boot was inside the tent the whole night which means the spider was in their with me...took the boot put it on the picnic table....got a 36 inch crow bar out and beat the boot like I was Gordon fuckin Freeman....30 minutes later an old lady comes up and says "you seem like a nice young man...why were you beating that boot with a crow bar?" I told her about the spider and she dead pans "carry on!" walks away drinking her coffee.

Good story

One morning I was walking out to my treestand in ONF and walked through a spiderweb in

the dark. It was all over me. I treked on and climbed up in my stand and pulled up my bow.

Laid the bow across my lap and made quiet.

The sun came up and I was on the alert for deer. After a while I looked down and saw a big

Banana Spider was on my bow along with a nice piece of web and a yellow substance.

I know that they are harmless but it scared the crap out of me. Was not a successful hunt that

day.

One of the first things I learned about bow hunting was always walk with an unknoked arrow in my hand at least a foot in front of my face.

Posted: 9/1/2015 4:42:03 PM EDT

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One of the first things I learned about bow hunting was always walk with an unknoked arrow in my hand at least a foot in front of my face.

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so this one time I'm camping in the ONF...wake up in the morning go to grab ma boots a spider the size a fuckin crab runs into my boot. mind you the boot was inside the tent the whole night which means the spider was in their with me...took the boot put it on the picnic table....got a 36 inch crow bar out and beat the boot like I was Gordon fuckin Freeman....30 minutes later an old lady comes up and says "you seem like a nice young man...why were you beating that boot with a crow bar?" I told her about the spider and she dead pans "carry on!" walks away drinking her coffee.

Good story

One morning I was walking out to my treestand in ONF and walked through a spiderweb in

the dark. It was all over me. I treked on and climbed up in my stand and pulled up my bow.

Laid the bow across my lap and made quiet.

The sun came up and I was on the alert for deer. After a while I looked down and saw a big

Banana Spider was on my bow along with a nice piece of web and a yellow substance.

I know that they are harmless but it scared the crap out of me. Was not a successful hunt that

day.

One of the first things I learned about bow hunting was always walk with an unknoked arrow in my hand at least a foot in front of my face.

Probably would have poked my eye out. I did have the bow in front of me.

Posted: 9/2/2015 1:21:35 AM EDT

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Little bastards are more aggressive than you think. Me and a couple of coworkers were huddled around one at the fuel pumps poking it with a stick and all of a sudden the bitch shoots up the stick and right at me. Should have seen 4 grown firemen scatter while screaming like girls.