I found a surprise in the grass this week!

[geogunn]

while edging a small portion of a bed and lawn this week I made a disturbing discovery!

about 10 feet of a bed needed an edge so I pulled out the flat point shovel and did the deed.

the whole thing took less than a minute but when I picked up the edged grass,...there was a BLACK WIDOW SPIDER left in place! YIKES!:eek:

have you ever seen a black widow?

she was the blackest black that there can be! so black that she shines! she is irridecent! she doesn't reflect light but she glows just the same! prior to her demise, I was not able to inspect the orange hour glass on her bottomside!

I smushed the little arachnid but it was a reminder of poo poo that I don't need while on the job!

few people die from a black widow bite but anyone bit has some crappy days ahead!

BE CAREFUL OUT THERE!

GEO

[Keith]

Originally posted by geogunn
while edging a small portion of a bed and lawn this week I made a disturbing discovery!

about 10 feet of a bed needed an edge so I pulled out the flat point shovel and did the deed.

the whole thing took less than a minute but when I picked up the edged grass,...there was a

Monkey?

[Eric ELM]

Gold Nugget? Wow you sure left us in suspense. :D

[geogunn]

WHATINTHEHELLHAPPENED?

while writing my post my clumsey right foot hit the enter button and the incomplete post was sent. I immediately set about to edit.

let me see what has happened...:blob2:

GEO

[Jason_S]

That's scary stuff!!!!!!!!!!


Luckily thet don't live in Wisconsin...........yet!

[Keith]

hehe :D I thought it was one of those 4 word stories (just a longer version). You've seen those right? It's an internet thing :p Someone starts the story with 4 words, then everyone comes in and add 4 words and ends up with something really funny. Maybe I'll try it in the off topic board sometime :)

[awm]

just be glad you are not mr. spider. she eats him soon as hes done the do. what a way to go

[Runner]

Instead of Black Widow, could have just called this species "the ex!":D

[andyslawns]

we have quite q few of these up here in MO. Last year we found about six of them in are barn. we bought some spider spray,but it did not work on them. but the spray and a lighter did. :blob2: my friend had a whole nest of them above his garage door. they got torched too. watch out for them, they can kill ya!!!!!!!!!!!

[laserman]

A cust wanted me to pull up some landscape fabric around a tree and I got my hand under the edge to pull it up, Hi there mr. snake. A friend they are very poisonous so fabric still there.

[LawnSmith]

i average about 2 snakes a week. very rarely do i see dangerous ones. i usually tail them and put them out of my way. a few times i havent seen them soon enough and they basically got diced up. i honestly hate it when that happens. i dont hate snakes and they dont scare me, i like having less rodents around because of them.

[awm]

im with you on snakes having there place. but got to say after watching black snakes al my life . they eat baby birds rabbits and mice and rats all thru the first several months of warm weather.
i just cant like a creature that lives on babies. of course my son
is a real snake lover. we do not take care of their pets when they vacation.:)

[Keith]

I run across Black Racers pretty frequently, and leave them alone. Ran across an oak snake or something a few weeks ago, put him in a trash can and let him go when I was done.

[lee b]

Got bit by a brown recluse spider back in early summer. Little rascal crawled up my leg and got me on the shin. Looked bad until the meat around the bite fell out, then it looked really nasty. It's healed up, but left a scar. Always keep an eye out for spiders and snakes, they turn up where you least expect them.

[Guardian]

We saw a Coral snake last week near the beach. It was the first one I've ever seen. It got the shovel as it tried to enter a customers garage....I couldn't remember the rhyme.."Red & yellow kill a fellow - Red & black, friend of Jack" Needless to say, we are hesitant to weed her flowerbeds now.

[Eric ELM]

I killed a Coral snake in California when I was in the Army. From what I've heard, their mouth is so small, they can only bite between fingers and toes, but I didn't want to find out. ;)

I wouldn't want my hands in flower beds around them. :(

[Davis TLC]

I found a black widow after I got done trimming some Yews this summer. Found her while loading up the brush. Kind of a creepy feeling.

[geogunn]

lots of times I leave my work pants and gloves out in the garage.

sometimes I throw them in the dryer on high for about 10 minutes before I put them on just in case I got a visitor in there overnight.

and besides they feel so good...UH, nevermind!

GEO

[MuskTurfKing]

I was getting some equipment out of the shed and there was one on the inside of the door, scared the heck out of me, I'm very cautious about getting equipment out now......I've heard that it's rare to die from a bite, you don't feel it when it happens, but in about 6 hours you'll feel bad enought to go to the ER and they figure it out, but still, not a good thing to experience......Also one time I was camping out at the lake with some friends and in the morning there were 2 brown recluses in our tent...scary stuff...

[kutnkru]

Originally posted by geogunn
... and besides they feel so good...UH, nevermind! ...ROFLMAO!!! :laugh:

When I was in HS I got the job I applied for working for the local nursery. One of the "new guys" tasks was to clean up the fert shed. I was plugging away and didnt even realize it but I had 5 or 6 of them ladies on my back!!! :eek:

One of the other guys came out to tell me it was a lunch break and when I turned around he told me not to move - need.less.to.say I tore off that shirt faster than a lightning streak and wasnt bit thankfully.

LEE

My gal was bit by either one of those, a scorpion, or a black widow last fall (here in Upstate NY of all places)and she is almost over her ordeal a year later.

Pretty nasty stuff trying to cut out enough of the infected tissue so that they dont have it deteriorate down to the bone. As a Texan she told me stories of people bitten by the BR that could place their fists inside their thighs where the venom was injected.

After changing her bandages and assisting her thru whirpool theropy, Im glad to hear that all is well.

Kris