Posted: 6/5/2012 5:23:51 AM EDT
What kind of spider did I find in my garage this morning? Excuse the crappy iPhone pic. Hard to tell from the pic, but the marking on the belly was red and in an hourglass shape.
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What kind of spider did I find in my garage this morning? Excuse the crappy iPhone pic. Hard to tell from the pic, but the marking on the belly was red and in an hourglass shape. http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p314/gpeterson_1/dc3c9484.jpg 
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It's VA, you see one, there are 50 more around that you don't see... I tend to get giant ones in the doorway of my shed. It's just a spider, not a lion. You can kill it with a stick or such a formidable weapon as the bottom of your shoe. Same here in North Florida. We have them all over the place. Brown Widow Spiders too. |
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Thanks now I won't be able to sleep. OP KILL IT WITH FIRE! Might just as well say fuck it and burn the rest of the garage while youre at it 
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A few years ago we had tons of those fuckers in my neighborhood.
One of those bug exterminator chains was sending guys through the neighborhood door-to-door to sign people up for contracts to come spray and put down bug stuff around the house around that time. The guy caught me outside and told me some story about how "we just found 3 black widows nextdoor to you." I just assumed he was FOS and trying to scare me, which pissed me off, so I politely told him to go away. Up until that point, I hadn't actually seen one "in the wild" in VA since the early 90s at Fort AP Hill. I found one in my garage later that day. A small part of me thinks that the exterminator planted the black widow population in my neighborhood to drum up business, but the guy wasn't lying. They're out there. |
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THAT is known locally as the 'big vicious nasty spider'. I was surprised. Never seen a black widow in northern Virginia before. They are all over the Quantico range used for USPSA shoots; they are in Fredericksburg too. I have not seen any in McLean, but I know that they are just one load of fire-wood away from here (they can travel in Christmas trees too). OP: might consider trapping some house centepedes & releasing them in that area. They will go on a "seek and destroy" mission hunting all widows in the vicinity: 
Yep- they are creepy. But I'll take creepy over deadly any day. |
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http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/
Look for permethrin. Nuke your perimeter with the stuff. Kill all BWs with fire! |
| Years ago, my dad and I caught a black widow and had it in a gallon sized glass jar. We figured we should feed it so we threw a palmetto bug in there with it. the next day my dad asks me why I let the spider go. I of course hadn't done anything with it and we go look at the jar and the lid is still on it, the palmetto bug is still in there alive, and the spider is gone. then we notice that everything was gone. The spider, the webbing, the droppings...everything. The palmetto bug ate it all. I would have liked to have witnessed the battle that took place but that palmetto bug left not a trace in that jar, nothing. |
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http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/ Look for permethrin. Nuke your perimeter with the stuff. Kill all BWs with fire! +1, I have to battle them every year and Tempo SC is the only thing I have found that will reliably kill them. The crap you buy at Lowe's and Home Depot will only piss them off. |
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I shot her to shit with Raid bug spray and then stabbed her with garden shears. Damn hard to kill. Carb cleaner would have killed it in 3sec. I've found that I can kill lots of stuff with brake cleaner as well. Including brain cells, nerve cells, lung tissue, and those pesky parts of your body that haven't metastisized into cancer yet. 
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My son and I killed 7 of them in the shop the other day, today I killed the mother about the size of a quarter.
In 10yrs at this house I have killed BW every year but have not killed a fiddle back, was told by a pest control guy you won't have both in the same house. |
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Look for and destroy the nest too or you will have more. Found the eggsack and destroyed it with extreme prejudice. |
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I would rather have BW's around the house then fiddlebacks
the BW's are much calmer and ess aggressive..however they will still bite you if cornered or caught in clothing/shoes We have had alot of them around our house..if you havnt found her nest yet do so before that hatch. a BW that size will most likely have a egg sack nearby and normally where there is one there is 10 but they are pretty good at hiding as they perfer quiet little hiding places.. if you notice any jumping spiders about leave them be as they will eat BW's and other dangerous spiders while being relatively harmless themselves |
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This dirty bitch was hiding in my engine bay when it got me http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww317/ipmehpantsomg712/Photo123k.jpg So how bad was it? Any treatment? |
