Venomous Spiders in your State? Check here...

[Feuer Frei!]

If you like spiders as much as i do (truly, i do) then you can check up on venomous Spiders in your State here:

http://www.venombyte.com/venom/spide...s_by_state.asp

[Takeda Shingen]

Almost all spiders are venomous. Take ol' honga aspersa, the Wolf Spider so very common in my neck of the woods. They're big, but not deadly.



And they're family oriented.



Sleep well.

[Red October1984]

Heck, I have venomous spiders in my basement.

Don't know how they get in...but I find Brown Recluse spiders all over the place. And Black Widows can be found just outside.

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by Red October1984

Heck, I have venomous spiders in my basement.

Don't know how they get in...but I find Brown Recluse spiders all over the place. And Black Widows can be found just outside.

Spiders can fit into tiny gaps that you would never even see and some got into your house while it was being built and as the generations passed down most of the offspring stayed.

You are more than likely mistaking a common house spider for a Brown Recluse though not to say that if you really searched in the typical house you would not find one but you would never have a large number.

I would look the two up online and if you really do have lots of Brown Recluses you need to get your parents to call an exterminator.It will be much cheaper than the bill for a bite from one which any of your pets may or may not survive.

[Red October1984]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Spiders can fit into tiny gaps that you would never even see and some got into your house while it was being built and as the generations passed down most of the offspring stayed.

You are more than likely mistaking a common house spider for a Brown Recluse though not to say that if you really searched in the typical house you would not find one but you would never have a large number.

I would look the two up online and if you really do have lots of Brown Recluses you need to get your parents to call an exterminator.It will be much cheaper than the bill for a bite from one which any of your pets may or may not survive.

I'm not a spider expert so I probably do mistakenly ID them for different kinds.

Did some more research...

Brown Recluses have found their way into my basement...but not as much as the other, more common types. I haven't seen any in a while. I used to see similar spiders dead at the bottom of old boxes...but come to think of it, we did bring in an exterminator a few years back. Haven't seen too many inside since then.

There's usually at least one Black Widow per summer on my deck though.

One thing I like about spiders though, is other people's reaction to them. It's hilarious when you suddenly find out that somebody is deathly afraid of spiders even though the one in your hand is plastic.

[Stealhead]

You should really have to search to find a Recluse.I think I have only seen them a few times in my life.Two or three times when I was a kid at my house and only once that I can think of as an adult.

Though I did possibly get bitten by once during an exercise in Texas.I got a weird spot on my ankle and it looked wicked nasty.The doc said that I must have been bitten by a Brown Recluse or one of the other spiders that live in Texas.What ever it was it bit me while I was asleep so I did not notice it not right away at least.The upside was I got one month of convalescent leave and after 4 days of laying around with my leg propped up popping antibiotics of some sort I was good to go so I went to Mexico not much of a trek from Tuscon .

[desertstriker]

dawwww a wolf spider. such a cute guy that is untill you wake up with one on your sleeping bag

[Stealhead]

Even if you do not suffer from arachnophobia an unexpected Wolf Spider will surprise you.

In Florida and most of the Eastern seaboard you have Black Widows and Brown Recluse both can be deadly to a human though it is very rare for someone to die from a bite.

My favorite spider is the Banana Spider.

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

Even if you do not suffer from arachnophobia an unexpected Wolf Spider will surprise you.

In Florida and most of the Eastern seaboard you have Black Widows and Brown Recluse both can be deadly to a human though it is very rare for someone to die from a bite.

My favorite spider is the Banana Spider.

I almost was eaten by one of those at the subsim meet!

[Stealhead]

Spiders do not die from most store purchased pesticides because the pesticide is unable to be absorbed through the spiders skin.

Of course as others said they are actually a very useful thing to have in and around your house.Just like rattlesnakes people want to kill them but they are actually not aggressive and they eat rodents that would other wise would be a major pest as well as spread diseases.

[razark]

Oh, a list of spiders. Wow, Arizona has seven types. California beats them with eight. I'm so glad I'm not in either of those.

*scrolls down*

Damnit, Texas!
I'm just going to stay inside now.