And she has come....Latrodectus Hesperus

[chatrient]

Perhaps she and I will have a truce, perhaps with some unease on my end of it, yet this way she and her babies do not have to die (she has hung a huge egg sack, the size of a gumball)

Caution, this link shows a picture of one of her species, so if you have arachnophobia, please DO NOT Click this link

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[jettcat]

Got bit by one of those this year, you should see the scars from where the flesh ulcerated. I probably should have gone to the hospital, but made do with a heavy duty antibiotic and a whole lotta luck.

[chatrient]

if the flesh ulcerated, perhaps it was one of the hybrids of Black Widow and Brown Recluse?
We have those in CA now...
very scary those little buggers are :(

[start_0ver]

I just told P about your hybrids. He said, "Why don't they just give them guns or lazers or something??" (about the spiders)

[chatrient]

*nods* Yeah, the hybrid of the BW & the Brown recluse is a nasty nasty combination :(

My cousin's sister-n-law-to-be (now there's a convoluted introduction :P) got bit by one of those hybrids last year

and for three days watched the spot on her upper thigh getting bigger and bigger...and didn't tell my cousin till like the fourth day

my cousin made her go to the ER...and 25 minutes into the ER visit, Gina was being rolled into the operating room!

The surgeon removed a large patch of her skin, and muscle, trying to stop the necrosis. The doctor told Gina it was almost 10 ounces of flesh!

*shivers*
Hesperia better NOT have hybrid babies in that egg sack or I will be incredibly worried.

And mad at her for being an inter-species Ho :P

[littleemille]

An invader to be repulsed, with fire.

[chatrient]

**grrr** Stay off me patio, Mister. She and I have a truce~~ she will not be biting me, or anyone. She only wishes to hatch her babies in peace.

[chatrient]

Then she will stay here with me, and *not* go to your house :)

She is beautiful, in the light, she is like a glossy drop of pure black. like a polished onyx :)

[firesmithsghost]

(vincent price speaks

[chatrient]

*laughs out loud*
Thank you so much! Somehow, tho I had not thought it possible, it seems I had forgotten this piece from my dear Vincent Price!

So nice to have been reminded of this!

I &hearts Vincent Price...and have used his phrase "stumbling demented child king" as an insult in the past :P

[firesmithsghost]

The words he speaks are true
we're all humanary stew...

It's the first thing I though of when I saw the photo. I let spider run loose in my house. I have webs everywhere, but no roaches, no flies, no pests of any sorts.

[chatrient]

To the opinion of others around me, I am overly tolerant of spiders and bugs in general. I think because of my raising, and that god daughter I told you about :)

I once would not clean the shower in a spare bathroom for a month because a Mama spider was in there with an egg sack.

This was when I lived in Illinois, and mosquitoes were a serious issue in my county. I told my Ex to not spray anything, not even water, in there till the egg sack hatched.

Once I explained that I wanted those babies to survive, and travel to every room in the house because that species of spider was a known "skeeter eater" he fell in line.

After the sack hatched, I found those spiders in every single room of the house. I was thrilled because that summer, I never once got bit by mosquitoes while I was in my house :)

[nyteknight]

Black widows, if they are visable, are under an instant death sentence in my house. Kidlet was bit twice last year, both dogs got bit on the nose this year, and I've been bit 3 times since Jan. All painful widow bites thankfully. No zombie spiders out here.

Other spiders, unless they dangle in my face while sleeping, run across my bed while sleeping or hide on my shampoo bottle, get to live. =)

[chatrient]

I am really sorry to hear that BWs have been such an utter nightmare for you all :(

I keep hearing horror stories from my friends and am now starting to feel guilty about not wanting to kill this one :(

I did a double take about spiders hiding on your shampoo bottle~ I couldn't help but imagine what I would do in such a situation~~ it might involve a shriek...

[nyteknight]

Loud scream (this was at 7 am), the bottle dropping, me jumping out of the tub, nearly tearing down the curtain in the process....over a daddy long legs it looked like (thing drowned in the chaos).

[chatrient]

Poor Nyteknight!