Mobile Bay Reef Keepers

Posted: **Thu Jun 19, 2003 8:07 pm**

Have you ever wondered how bad it got.

The culprit.

Day 3 - ouch

Day 4 - kinda red now

Day 5 - kinda bad

Day 6 Just getting plain sick

Day 9 - missing flesh

Day 10 Gangrenous

Posted: **Thu Jun 19, 2003 8:53 pm**

That's why I hate those damned things. Okay, I don't really hate them, but I am definitely terrified of spiders. I just had a chill thinking about them...

Posted: **Thu Jun 19, 2003 9:46 pm**

Yeah well i have alway heard the tales of the dreaded black widow and the brown recluse, but never saw the real result. I heard the they ate the flash and left holes but nice to see it first hand.

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2003 9:08 pm**

That is enough to make one sick.....throw up kind.........

Thanks for sharing....I think!

BTW, when did this happen?

Elizabeth

Posted: **Sat Jun 21, 2003 9:31 pm**

I dunno, that's not my hand.

Posted: **Sat Jun 12, 2004 4:43 pm**

Shameless bump for ALLEN !!!

Posted: **Sat Jun 12, 2004 9:27 pm**

yeah i missed that first time around.

That is hard to look at. see? SEE? WHAY I SAID THOSE THINGS CREEP ME OUT!

Posted: **Sat Jun 12, 2004 11:06 pm**

I personally think it is one of the coolest things i ever saw. But that is just me.

Posted: **Sun Jun 13, 2004 2:02 pm**

Thanks, snoop. I'll be callin Peaches n' Clean tomorrow to come clean the vomit up from my carpet.

BLAAHHH!!!

Posted: **Mon May 29, 2006 3:08 pm**

Bump, this is gross enough to bring back from the dead.

Posted: **Mon May 29, 2006 5:31 pm**

Funny this comes back up, since I was talking to a guy who had the same thing happen to the calf of his leg. It was a year since he had been bitten and it still hadn't healed completely. It causes localized cytolysis and consequent necrosis. Some extreme cases, some people have a severe reaction to the venom and the wound site spreads across the body, literally rotting very large portions of it away.

Posted: **Tue May 30, 2006 1:56 pm**

tanker stanker wrote:Thanks, snoop. I'll be callin Peaches n' Clean tomorrow to come clean the vomit up from my carpet. BLAAHHH!!!

Go ahead and tell 'em to swing by my house when they're done with yours.

Posted: **Wed May 31, 2006 10:20 pm**

About a year ago I saw a black widow spider right outside my back door. I went inside to get my husband to kill it and could never find it again. About a month ago I went into my shed and saw about 3 or 4 of them (I"m sure there were probably a bunch more I didn't see). They had a bunch of egg sacks all on the inside and outside of my shed. I went to the garage and got the Spectracide. I literally saturated the inside and outside of my shed with it and every spider and egg sack I saw. I went back the next day and all of those SOB's were dead!!!!! I can't believe my dogs hadn't got bitten.

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2006 1:55 pm**

GermanShepherdGirl wrote:About a year ago I saw a black widow spider right outside my back door. I went inside to get my husband to kill it and could never find it again. About a month ago I went into my shed and saw about 3 or 4 of them (I"m sure there were probably a bunch more I didn't see). They had a bunch of egg sacks all on the inside and outside of my shed. I went to the garage and got the Spectracide. I literally saturated the inside and outside of my shed with it and every spider and egg sack I saw. I went back the next day and all of those SOB's were dead!!!!! I can't believe my dogs hadn't got bitten.

I breed them in my shed as well... i just use something to smash them with... a bit caveman-ish... but provides more satisfaction for me.

Posted: **Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:21 pm**

Black Widow are very common here. I remember as a kid our yard was not well kept at all, quite messy. There would be numerous buckets and junk laying in the yard. If a bucket was left upside down for any period of time there would be a good chance one would be there. Females seemed way more common, I guess because they kill the male.

If you want to have fun with a Black Widow this can be entertaining. Take and find a common black ant mound, or even a fire ant mound and place a Black Widow female in the middle of the mound once you stir the ants up. It is amazing because they cannot get to her, she can sting and kill the ants very quickly and come out unhurt. As a kid I watched a female eliminate an entire common black ant mound.