I was cleaning up some stuff and found this to my suprise.

Quick, put in on a hook.

It's got to be a deadly bait.

How appropriate.  It kinda resembles a jig.

I HATE 'EM! I HATE 'EM! I HATE 'EM! I HATE 'EM!

One real downside to the remodel field in construction.

You wanna see a six and a half footer squeal like a little girl, show me a bat, black widow, or rattlesnake. Especially if I am in an enclosed space.

I become decidedly unmanly.

----squish

Where's Tin? That lady has some nice coloration, shiny too.

horrible.... i hate'em

once saw one on the back of a door handle to my high school gym's storage room......don't know why i looked first, but sure glad i did.... i've been worried about them ever since!

there was one on a bench on my dock so me and my friend corey sprayed it with sunscreen it died

Don't let Tin open this thread, he'll go into shock.

I've found them under my water meter cover a few times.  Don't think anything about it.

There I modified the topic so Tin wouldnt look.  I bet he does. ;D

I hate those things. I've found some adults in my backyard along with a couple of nests, which have spikes all on the outside (Just as creepy as the spider)

Just make sure it doesn't crawl up your pants. ;D

I remember when I lived in California as a kid we used to find them on the playground all the time. Are they 100% lethal or are they one of those animals that everyone is terrified of but really only makes you hurt and swell up or MIGHT kill you?

I remember when I lived in California as a kid we used to find them on the playground all the time. Are they 100% lethal or are they one of those animals that everyone is terrified of but really only makes you hurt and swell up or MIGHT kill you?

They CAN kill you. As long as you go to the hospital after the bite, you'll be fine. You just have to get it treated so it doesn't spread through your body.

Cool picture gman

One thing I miss about when I lived in WNY. You car may rust out from under you, your toes may freeze to your shoes, your taxes may be high but nothing in that area was poisonous, except the air, water and ground, but it wasn't creepy.

Since I have been in NC (10 years), I have found and killed more black widows than I can count, dealt with poisonous snakes,  and such WAY to much.

For those of you in the remodeling business, my hats off to ya. My uncle did that for 25 yrs. He can tell me about times being under a house in a crawl space so small he had to crawl back out to roll over and running into snakes, and such. You want to see a grown man scream like a girl and jump through 2x10 floor joist, just put me in that situation.

STOMP!! I hate those things.

I got bit on the calf by a Brown recluse, the earth tone cousin of the Black widow, 5 years ago.

I still have a hole in my leg (covered over by a scab) where the flesh eating component of the venom ate into me.

Those spiders are nothing to mess with.  

I got bit on the calf by a Brown recluse, the earth tone cousin of the Black widow, 5 years ago.

I still have a hole in my leg (covered over by a scab) where the flesh eating component of the venom ate into me.

Those spiders are nothing to mess with.

Hey Cart-

You sure it wasn't that ferocious man-eating monster your holding that took a bite out of your leg?

I was in the mancave the other day and one crawled out of nowhere on my leg. I found out just how good bladder control I have.

                  -gk

Black Widows are the coolest spiders.  When I was younger we used to walk around the neighborhood lifting up people's water meter and aggravate them.  They build some amazing nests and they are pretty F*$@ing aggresive.  Never been bit by one, but I know quite a few people that have.