From the category archives:

Spiders

Brown recluse bite can bring home the Bacon

If I had a dollar for every time since just living in Florida someone has told me that they personally have suffered a recluse bite and the wound took months to heal, I’d have about 500 bucks. (I’ve been here since 1991)

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Using water to trap spiders

Is there some factory out there that runs the boards through the glue machine and then just before the packaging dept gets ahold of it they stick a fly or cricket on the pad? What pray tell can you pre bait with?

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The black widow makes a terrible wife and a bad parent

Maybe it’s a good thing that the female only has to mate once but the male is free to go off again and try his luck with another mate but my heart goes out to the kids.

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The Brown Recluse bite; watch if you dare

Almost everybody who’s ever been bitten by a spider will adamantly tell you it was a brown recluse. They describe the ulcer type wound and speak of the painful months that it took to heal and how at one point they could actually see the bone.

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The wolf spider

Probably no other spider is the source of more sleepless nights, frantic calls to the exterminator or the reason for more dents in bedroom walls from hurled shoes than the wolf spider. The sheer size of these creatures is close to legend status and its ability to appear in the middle of a room from [...]

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pseudoscorpion needs more than a pseudo identification

Recently I received a request to identify a bug and a fuzzy picture. Normally I’m pretty good at this but I think this time I may need some help.

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Baby spiders, grown up fear

I have been doing pest control so long that I have literally watched some of my customers kids grow up. As young kids they scream with glee when we came across a spider or crazy looking bug.

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Black Widow spiders

A call came in today, “spiders come quick”. We sent out our tech and sure enough it was the dreaded Black Widow. The home had been vacant for some time and the new owner was remodeling with a plan to resell but he was going to live there in the time it took to fix [...]

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