While getting my Dad's Triton detailed, we removed the middle bench seat insert to clean. This little gal had setup house behind there. Her ex-lover had already felt the mighty "Jaws of Death", as he was laying dead beside her. Hope she decided to kill him before consumating the marriage, or I might end up with a lot of offspring.

I wish I would have never seen this pic! Thanks! Cant stand the sight of spiders, they always give me the willies! UHHHHHHH

Glad you found it before it found you. I use to live in San Angelo and we had tons of them around the house. Kept me a nervous wreck all the time. If I felt so much as a hair move while I was in bed I was up and wide awake.

Wow! Spiders are creepy man!

Yeah I'm just glad we weren't night fishing. She might have decided to come out and play a bit...especially if we were lying back in the seat getting a little nap - we might have gotten a little nip too.

We have those things all over here at work.

I hate to tell you this Tritoman, but if the hubby is dead then you'd better look for a nest, cause that's what the females do after they consumate the marriage. After he's finished with doing his duty with her, he's finished and she's full!

When I was a kid living in El Paso, I found one in the garage and mom actually let me keep her in a gallon jar (had a tarantula in a small aquarium so the little spider wasn't such a big deal). She seemed happy in there and built a nice web. I had some screen over the top and would drop in flies and such and watch her feed on them. One day I noticed one little ball in the web and a few weeks later the ball was fuzzy, the jar was fuzzy, there was fuzz crawling through screen.. That's when I found out what an egg sack looked like. That was the end of the spider in the jar.. Had to spray my whole room down with d-con.. Now, I'll move a wolf spider out to the yard and move a snake to the park but a black widow gets the boot.. I do have a limit to my tolerance.

Now it's a good spider!

On my father's place, we go looking for lizards, snakes, and frogs for the kids to play. He lifted up a piece of sheet metal, behind the barn, and one of those dropped, with a web) to the ground (they always seem to drop to the ground and go limp), but on the way down I swear she flashed her orange hour glass because when it registered in my mind..it was 2 foot wide (the biggest thing in my field of view). My father squished her with the front of his shoe, and you could see her bite his shoe, and a full drop of clear liquid came out of her mouth. I assume it was poison. I hate those things, and I frequently bug bomb the barn.

Give me a poisonous snake over a black widow any day.

Just a cautionary note- not all black widows are solid black with a red hourglass. Some have yellow and white mixed in on the bodies and a very few may not show the hourglass. If it has a body structure like this one, please be careful. Also, there are many spiders that are not poisonous per se, but it is possible to have a bad reaction to any spider bite that could be very painful and/or make you very sick. Very creepy little critters! On the bright side, most widows and recluses I've seen try to scurry away pretty quick when you find them.

Spiders are cool and SPIDERS ALSO SUCK!

First I was bitten on the back of my left hand by a recluse in Hondours. The Army medics cut out some flesh right away and it did not get anywhere near as bad as some but it did suck.

Same deployment their cousin the scorpion crawled in my boot. As always I shook out my boot but he little bas---d held tight and when I put in my foot wham right on the big toe. Not a bad scorp all I got was a toe the size of a baseball for a day. Yet is sucked and was worse then any wasp sting which I was told this scorpion equated to.

Then last summer I saw one of those CUTE little jumping spiders on my truck. Not wanting him to get the splat I scurried him onto my hand (something I have done often but will not do again) and went to put him on a tree, guess he was having a bad day I felt a tiny sting and thought it was in my head. Well it swelled up and got a tiny bit nasty kind of like a micro recluse reaction took a few days to go away. No big deal but I was PO'd because I tried to be nice to him.

I am one of those folks that tries to save snakes when I can even venomous ones at times but spiders get the boot heel venomous ones anyway. I have not blamed the species for that little jerk jumper I have them all over my yard and don't harm them but a recluse or a black widow is getting the splat.

They are just too tiny and to likely to get sat on or grabbed by accident. I try not to kill with out reason but I have to admit if I see one of these SPLAT and I would spray that boat down with dcon if it were mine,

Hey Jack,

Honduras huh?

I was in Panama from Jan 90 til Jul 91, I squished a banana tarantula when I was on gaurd duty on night, I also saw a spider that was tiger stripped (orange and black) when I was in a boat fishing for peacock bass, needless to say I was like Richard Pryor, I was not going to fish anymore til I found that spider, I never found him or fished in that boat again.

Mack,

I arrived in Panama in June of 91 so we spent a month in common theater. Small world huh?

Spend anytime at the redneck bar at the Clayton NCO club? I sure did during my two years there.

Hondo was a deployment from Panama that lasted 6 months. The creapy crawlies in Hondo seemed a lot bigger issue then in Panama of course we lived in tents in the boonies for those six months so that is why I guess.

Lot's of brown recluses and tons of scorpions. When we pulled up about 10 thousand sandbags to take down the fueling point I bet we had a scorp under every bag.

Also present were tons of vine snakes (they were cool) and Fer de Lances (those snakes were NOT COOL).

I did my share of peacock bass fishing while in Panama but no where as much as I should of. I was 18-20 while there and had "other" game on my time if you know what I mean.

Sure dont want to be bit by one of those, was bit by brown recluse and man it was no fun.