Spiders

[MacFromOK]

Just killed a scorpion in the kitchen a few minutes ago. Guess all the rain is making 'em hunt a dry place. :/

 

[TerryMiller]

Just killed a scorpion in the kitchen a few minutes ago. Guess all the rain is making 'em hunt a dry place. :/

We were told many moons ago that if one found a scorpion in the house. keep an eye out for a second one as they tended to be in pairs.

 

[Perplexed]

I'm a spider and snake saver, don't kill them unless they're brown and crawling around in the house (recluses not allowed in!), but spider webs to the face are the worst! Only thing that makes it worse is when you didn't see it at all, and have no idea if the critter is now crawling in your hair or not. *shiver*

If I’m doing field work in the woods in the late summer or early fall, I’ll first find a long, curved stick, and walk with it held out in front of me. Once while on a crew, the others made fun of me until one of them walked face first into an orb weaver web. Suddenly everyone was walking with a stick held out front.

 

[chuter]

Pulled this out from under the hood of my truck a week or so ago, notice he doesn't have a head.
If the wife's around, they get the shovel guillotine.

 

[MacFromOK]

We were told many moons ago that if one found a scorpion in the house. keep an eye out for a second one as they tended to be in pairs.

This was actually the third I've killed in the past couple months.

We were overran with 'em when we built this house in '76. Finally got an exterminator that drilled holes in the mortar at the corners of the house, and sprayed chlordane into the wall spaces.

That pretty much ended their hostile takover...

 

[NikatKimber]

Pulled this out from under the hood of my truck a week or so ago, notice he doesn't have a head.
If the wife's around, they get the shovel guillotine.
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What kind of snake is that?

 

[dennishoddy]

I'm a spider and snake saver, don't kill them unless they're brown and crawling around in the house (recluses not allowed in!), but spider webs to the face are the worst! Only thing that makes it worse is when you didn't see it at all, and have no idea if the critter is now crawling in your hair or not. *shiver*

I've spent many years walking to deer stands without flashlights. Natural light only if that and have been the recipient of many spider webs across the face in the dark of night. The occasional covey of quail or pheasant flushed right at the feet will get the blood pressure rising as well.

 

[Mack45]

Looks like a King snake.

 

[dennishoddy]

This was actually the third I've killed in the past couple months.

We were overran with 'em when we built this house in '76. Finally got an exterminator that drilled holes in the mortar at the corners of the house, and sprayed chlordane into the wall spaces.

That pretty much ended their hostile takover...

Must have been way back when. That stuff has been illegal for many years. My uncle used to bring his cattle sprayer around and spray everybodies yard back in the day when I was a kid.
I still run across it at farm auctions occasionally when they get to the house basement or the old storm shelter out back. Usually in a dark brown glass gallon jug.
That stuff was really effective.

 

[MacFromOK]

Must have been way back when. That stuff has been illegal for many years. My uncle used to bring his cattle sprayer around and spray everybodies yard back in the day when I was a kid.
I still run across it at farm auctions occasionally when they get to the house basement or the old storm shelter out back. Usually in a dark brown glass gallon jug.
That stuff was really effective.

Lol, I thought '76 was "way back when."

I remember seeing chlordane in the Madill hardware store after the scorpion episode (didn't even know it existed before then).