Black widow spider

[HoBow]

I'm with you- relocate it. If I aint eating it, I aint killing it. 

[osage outlaw]

Well, I found another one on the kids rabbit cage.  I had to remove it and her egg sack.  I was going to take it to work and let it go, but they hatched before I went back.  Now I have this.

[mullet]

 I'm with the "Stomp Them Group", unless you can teach your kids not to play with them and to look at every place they put there fingers when they are taking care of thier rabbits.

[Pat B]

The incedence of black widow(and brown recluse) bites declined after indoor plumbing was introduced!
  We have them around here. My rock garden is full of them. Since I don't use many pesticides the spiders, wasps, yellow jackets,etc are my pesticides.    If we are threatened, they loose! 

[stickbender]

     Pat, we used to have a cabin in the Big Cypress Swamp, and before we built a water tower, we had an out house.  Well whenever I would have to use it, I would take a can of raid, and a lighter with me.  At night I would take a flash light also, but I would first I would beat the side of the seat with a stick, and then slam the top lid of the toilet seat, down, and and then lift it and the seat up , and then light the lighter and spray the the raid down into the hole.  You could hear all kinds of things dropping down there.   There were a lot of roaches, and there were a lot BIG ol brown roach spiders too!   I sprayed, and torched them all!  I didn't want anything crawling on me, or mistaking anything for a nice juicy bug!  I didn't bother to take anything to read.  That would leave too much time for something to crawl back up to the top!

                                                                       Wayne

[Gus]

I'd server that one up with drawn butter... and a nice chianti.   

-gus

[El Destructo]

Never had a Problem with Widder's... but them Fiddle Backs....Mash Em.....

[Badger]

  About 15 years ago I kept getting these bites that looked like El Destructos. My wife ended up in critical care from them and I think I had a total of 27 over about 6 months, mostly on arms and stomach. I never could find the spider but the Dr said it was a brown recluse. Looking back I think it was simply staff infection, my wife was a critical care nurse at the county hospital and the virus was very common their.
   I think black widows can deliver a dry bite, they are very common in my yard but I had never been bitten until about 6 weeks ago when I was replacing the motor on my Jacuzzi. A big one got me on my shoulder but nothing happened just a bit of redness. I sat around waiting for the symptoms to appear and if they did I was going to head for the hospital but nothing happened. Steve

[Justin Snyder]

Black widow bites are like bee stings. Most people react like Steve unless they are allergic. Brown recluse on the other hand can be real bad. They cause open lesions like El D had or worse and they can persist for years and even pop up on other areas away from the bite. We have tons of black widows here, never been bitten yet.

[El Destructo]

Steve...after the Bite ripened to the point of Rupturing like it did...I went to the Doctors again...and they debrided  all of the rotten flesh to keep a secondary Staff Infection from setting in...well the one on my Shoulder got infected...the one on "My Buttox" ( said with a Forest Gump accent) didn't...it healed fine...the one on my Shoulder had to be packed with gauze for almost two months ...till it healed from the Inside Out....it went to the Bone damned near.

[bowtarist]

ElD, shoulda tried blow fly eggs.  Much cheaper than doctor visits.   

[El Destructo]

Icka.....can You imagine have them Maggots crawling around in there....eewwww.....

[Hawkeye1974]

I worked in hospitals for seven years in Georgia and the Brown Recluse Spider was a major problem.  Black Widows bite were bad but not like, the brownies. A guy came in one night with a hole the size of tangerine on is calf.  It was so infected it was amputated.

[Badger]

  Dr told me I was full of crap but something I started doing when I felt those lesions comming on that seems to stop them immediately. The symptoms are very consistent, starts with an itch, then a very intense burning, followed by what looks like a boil. By the time the boil hits a marble size piece of flesh is allready gone if you are lucky. At the itchy or early stages of burning I will get a wet rag as hot as I can stand it and hold it over the burning area, I rotate 2 rags keeping both very hot, takes about 5 min but when you are done it is done period at that very moment. Like I said Dr doesn't agree with this but it sure as hell seems to work about 100% of the time.