Did you hear a loud scream about 5 minutes ago?

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That was me, watering my plants, and then walking straight through an orb weave spider web on my deck. The suckers are like baby tarantulas; HUGE, fury, NASTY..............BLAAAAAAAAAH.
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And for some reason we've been getting lots of em the past couple years. They make webs that are HUGE. One day, no web, no spider. The next day, one will pop up inconspicuously. Killed one last week...........the body itself was about the size of a penny. With legs fully extended, we're talking maybe bigger than a silver dollar.

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I've got 4 or 5 right now in my flower bed.

They're quite welcome in my garden. They earn their keep killing bugs that I like a lot less (skeeters large enough to abduct children, mostly).
 
I lived, up until recently, in a house that had a row of hedges that led to the entrance.

Without fail, there were always orb spiders which made webs spanning the row of hedges. I learned to swing my arms around every time I walked in at night to try to make sure i didn't end up with a spider on my body. Nothing worse than walking facefirst into a spiderweb.
 
They are also everywhere up in the mountains where I go fishing. In between every single little willow bush along the South Platte River lies a huge orb weaver. One day I looked down at my waders and in between the bushes and saw all of them. I just about shat myself.
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I'll see your Orb Weaver (we had one we named "Herman" build a web across out back door one), and raise you this:

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Was getting ready to paint when I saw her. I didn't have any Raid so I hit her with a blast of hairspray (was told it would kill them by our Bug Guy) and she disappeared into the attic somewhere.
 
YIKES!!! We have plenty black beauties round these part as well. You can always tell it's a black widow; when you see a narly, mangled mess of a web, it's a black widow.

That's a big'en there though for sure!!
 
LOL, I was recharging my worm farm the other weekends, and found my fingers about an inch away from one of these.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-back_spider

Did a quick audit, and there's prolly 30 in my yard.

I leave them alone, and they leave us alone.

I'd rather have redbacks than the Funnell Webs that our neighbours keep finding.
 
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I've got 4 or 5 right now in my flower bed.

They're quite welcome in my garden. They earn their keep killing bugs that I like a lot less (skeeters large enough to abduct children, mostly).

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Right On, Spiders are here to check the insect population...
My wife insists they die if they enter the house and I hate doing it, but my wife has a point, when she says, "I am only defending my territory!"

Spiders in the wild leave em alone! Everyone you kill will result in 50 mosquito bites...
 
You haven't lived until you find a shed water moccassin skin in your house, and spend time wondering where he went after shedding his skin-and how he got inside anyway.
 
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Right On, Spiders are here to check the insect population...

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At the plant we had the finest websites ever. Good spider year ..bad flying insect year. We lived in harmony at work. You just learned to swipe a little before walking between all the 'choke points' in the various rooms (lots of pipes). Back when we read gauges (before remote indicators) you jumped a few times as you saw the squirming thingie dangling at about 90° of your view.

At home they appear to like to form nests (whatever
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) in the corners of the kitchen walls and ceiling. We vacuum them up with a minivac and release them outside. We open the vacuum up and my wife is poised with duct tape. I then go outside and take the tape off and place the bag in the trash (it's pretty full anyway at this time). They do scurry out quick enough.

Now we do get a couple of nasty spiders. They get crunched ..but most are pretty harmless.
 
Funnel web fellows are extremely scary to little old me.

Fangs that can penetrate shoe leather?

Primates particularly sensitive to their venom.... until the advent of an anti-venom I read a bite with venom injection was basically a death sentence.

Accckkkkkk!!!! Eeeeeeek!!!!!!!

Black widows and brown recluses are bad enough. Now, there is some evidence that the Hobo spider MAY be a threat.

Hoboes up in Pablo country and environs.

At least we don't have rattle snakes in Shantyville and widows are rare but the brown recluse is spreading north with the warmer average temps and I have a dozen glue traps spread across the shanty that fill up with creepy crawlies constantly and I may want to find a plastic bubble to sleep in at night.

Sniff.
 
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You haven't lived until you find a shed water moccassin skin in your house, and spend time wondering where he went after shedding his skin-and how he got inside anyway.

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OMG! Snakes & Spiders...I'll need to ask G0d just why oh why either of those were invented.
 
I don't know why he invented plovers. They are useless, nest in the grass next to footpaths, then get all cranky when people walk near their nests...useless birds.

Blue Ringed Octopus, Funnel Webs, Box Jelly Fish, Tapians etc are there to keep us on our toes (or backs).
 
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