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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) Continue reading
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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? Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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. Continue reading
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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 … Continue reading
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Brown Recluse Spiders
A misunderstood spider strikes fear in almost everyone. See the facts in pestcemetery.com on the Brown Recluse and hundreds of other insects. Continue reading
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