Barn spiders

[Minimor]

what a nice POP sound they make when you squash them? If you think it's cruel to squash a big fat spider, sorry, but if they are living above my doorways they have to go. Tonight when I went out the door of the house I turned the outside light on just to check....I always do that before I walk through the doorway, just in case...and sure enough there was a big fat ugly spider dangling on a web, about chest height on me. If I'd walked into that thing and got him stuck to my person, you all would have heard the shriek from wherever you are!! Eeeewwww. I'd already cleared 2 of them out of the doorway of the barn and 3 out of the stall door inside when I was cleaning the barn. I clean them out nearly every evening, and by the next evening there are more of them. eewwwww.

Have I mentioned that I hate spiders?

 

[ErikaS.]

Eeeeewww. I hate spiders but I'm much too afraid to squish them. I might miss and tick them off. Then they'd come and get me.

 

[Mominis]

They are HUGE this year!! I saw the biggest spider the other day just outside of the barn. He is still alive, but I know I have a few more grey hairs because of him. Ewwwww.....

 

[Marty]

I don't like spiders and snakes

and I'll murder them if that what it takes

I want them out of my barn

and completely off of my farm

If they dare leave their relatives behind

I'll bash them quickly too for my own peace of mind

So stay away from here you nasty spiders and snakes

Crawl and slither far away because staying here would be a big mistake

 

[LAminiatures]

I am with you all. Spiders are gross. I shop vac every month to keep them and there homes out of my barn. I would rather see a snake than a spider. I have goose bumps just reading this thread.

Love the poem Marty

 

[bevann]

I am with you all. Spiders are gross. I shop vac every month to keep them and there homes out of my barn. I would rather see a snake than a spider. I have goose bumps just reading this thread.

Love the poem Marty

I can do spiders, mice and rats, but not snakes.I'm not fond ot things that don't have fur and especially feet.I have killed snakes if they get too close to my critters or me and don't get out of the way.I know they keep down mice and rats, but I have a cat for that job and I also do liquid poison that I put down where the cat can't get to it.

 

[Margo_C-T]

I don't mind snakes as long as I know they are NOT the venomous kind. This summer, I had to pick up my 'resident' bull snake by the tail and carry it off twice to convince 'it' I didn't want it around/in my barn or back yard w/ my little dogs. After the second time, it got a bit 'hostile' with me so I just had to 'herd' it away w/ a hoe handle! I also had to move it's 'little sibling' once!

I don't like spiders, but only fear the venomous kind...black 'widders'(which I HAVE encountered throughout life),and brown recluse(which I'm not sure I've ever seen here.) That said...recently I've been catching one of my little horses who I've been allowing to graze after dark(he's an ulcer-sufferer; trying everything to help him...normally can't graze, due to little/no grass, but had some growth this year after earlier rains).Using a flashlight or headlamp to 'find' my horse, I kept seeing these tiny greenish dots of light on the ground out there; turns out, they are SPIDERS...large long-legged 'ground' spiders! Guess it's their EYES reflecting the light--though I first thought they had some kind of 'firefly' type apparatus! Amazing!! And there seem to be quite a few of them; I'd never have thought that SPIDERS were running around out in the pasture!!

Margo

 

[Sterling]

Margo, even tho you are on the other side of the map from us on the east coast I know what you're talking about. I saw a You Tube video of huge spiders and the dude had a flashlight to one of them and it glowed in the dark like a cat's eyes, or deer. Was really wicked looking.

I was going to post the other day a thread about spiders too. Don't want to hi-jack Minimor's tho, but I was sitting on the couch and Lakota was on her mattress just beside me and this HUGE I mean HUUUUGE spider crow hopped over her which alarmed her and ended up on the couch. I was freaking out and took a slipper real quick and hit it. I felt bad about killing it, but thought if it would have bit either Lakota or me, that would not have been a good scenario. I didn't recognize it, so did the first thing I could and that was eliminate it. Took a photo of it and want to post it to see if anyone can identify it ....I had no luck online trying to figure out what kind it is. Reminds me of a Wolf spider but the color is all wrong. It's actually swirly orangy. Creeps me out when I look at the pic still and did I say it was HUGE????????

(Where is that mumbled mouthed smiley thats shivering ....?)

 

[Minimor]

eww, sterling, that's just nasty, having a spider land beside you that way. I know, because it just happened to me a few minutes ago. I was sitting here typing and suddenly there was a movement at the top left corner of my keyboard & there was a big ugly spider. I call that variety "fast moving spider" because they do tend to run fast but it is actually a funnel web spider of some sort. We've had a few of them in the house this fall, but they seem kind of sluggish--they don't move as fast as they normally do. Do post a picture of "your" spider Sterling!

I have no idea if this spider crawled up from behind the keyboard or if he dropped through the air, off the ceiling maybe....yikes, if he'd have landed on my head....I jumped up & backed away, & Mom came and rescued me. She's not quite as squeamish about spiders as I am (almost, though!) and she squashed him in a paper towel. I'd have had to whack him with a book & would have sent the keyboard flying & likely not got the spider. I have discovered that our fast moving spiders are the same family, and look much like, the hobo spiders. I'm not sure we have hobos here but some people say we do--and if a hobo should bite a person or pet I'm told that the bite causes necrosis very similar to that caused by the bite of a brown recluse spider.