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Post by Mari-in-IN on Jun 6, 2019 19:53:35 GMT
I was just working on refilling chicken founts in this coop and thought I would check on their timer that is hanging up on the wall on the right... (obviously can't see it in the pic - but I walk right by it to get to that water fount) I've seen bigger just a couple of times but not quite this close up and personal - I just about jumped out of my skin and even I was impressed by the involuntary scream that came out of me! Aye Carumba... I wish I could get used to these but I just cannot. Perhaps it's because I don't see them near as often as the smaller spiders that inhabit the coops. On a sidenote - yeah, me thinks I need to clean some cobwebs real soon by the way.... I'm always on a mission and tend to not notice them. I'm sorry to say that I did dispatch the spider - I didn't really like doing it but just looking at it makes me a bit queasy - and I always have this fear that they will jump on me and get tangled up in my hair! Well, I feel as if I've finally calmed down - I'm headed back out to the coops - And hopefully won't see anymore of those "lovelies" for a very... long... time... ~Mari ETA - I can't help but wonder if very many other people out there find spiders like these in their coops. Or, perhaps we occasionally see them in this one since it sits in the woods? Now I'm going to be a bit of a paranoid Mari this afternoon dealing with the four other coops...
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Post by tenbusybees on Jun 6, 2019 20:14:54 GMT
Never, ever snakes. Mice and rates, I'd rather not. Spiders I don't mind. We have a tarantula living in the garden. First time I've ever seen one outside of a zoo exhibit. I make sure to say hi when I go out there. Your fellow looks like a wolf spider. I find them in our house pretty often. I've never known them to be aggressive, jumpy yes (not that that matters now ). I also think they help keep the scorpion population in check. We've always had one or the other, never both. I'll take the spiders over the scorpions any day.
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Post by mzgarden on Jun 6, 2019 20:32:14 GMT
For me, a difference between in the house vs. outside. We just had a snake episode an hour ago - DGD 5yo running down the driveway from the house (me on the steps watching) to the shop (Grandpa down there) when a rat snake slithers out of the grass onto the driveway in front of her. Grandpa took off running, she started screaming & dancing around and I couldn't see what they were seeing. Personally, while snakes startle me they don't bother me. Mice are irritating but a few cockroaches found in a rental house had my Mom and me 'moved' to the Holiday Inn years ago, lol. Poor Dad had to get rid fo the bugs and the carcasses before Mom would come home.
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Post by dustawaits on Jun 7, 2019 0:03:19 GMT
None of the above bother me... but I will not tolerate an aggressive snake! Had a rat snake strike at me....had not seen it until then. Before I could go inside for my gun it disappeared. Few days later the neighbor screamed, it or one similar was on the steps railing and she put her hand on it....it got hostile and lost its life. She was carrying. Spiders I enjoy outside or in the buildings. But be warned with electricity in a building you do not want cobwebs around electricity as straw or whatever can and has caused fires.
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Post by stickinthemud on Jun 7, 2019 15:28:45 GMT
That looks like the spider hanging out in the garden shed last week. I wished it good luck hunting mosquitoes & took the mower and left. It was on the far side of the shed--if I'd been as close as Mari was, the grass might not have gotten mowed.
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Post by farmchix on Jun 7, 2019 16:00:47 GMT
I put on a face mask and use a Circuiteer to clean out the spider webs and dust. We had it for cleaning the llamas before a show and it works wonderfully!
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Post by shellymay on Jun 7, 2019 19:21:21 GMT
We truly are sisters from another time, I would of pee'd my pants, ran and would not of gone back until my DH killed that spider, anything with 8 eyes is way to creepy for me, those eyes are meant for seeing me first and attacking me right?
But now I must take back your good chicken comment the other day with the snake and say bad bad bad chickens for not eating that dang spider
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Post by countrymom22 on Jun 13, 2019 19:18:23 GMT
YUCK! That says it all! If I had walked in and saw that I would still be screaming now!
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Post by aussiedarren on Jun 14, 2019 0:32:52 GMT
Things a little different down here as most critters want to kill you , our big spider the Huntsman is absolutely awesome as it will walk around killing the White-tails (similar to Brown recluse) and Red-backs (similar to Black Widow)so I'm always happy to share with one.
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Post by Mari-in-IN on Jun 14, 2019 3:34:44 GMT
Things a little different down here as most critters want to kill you , our big spider the Huntsman is absolutely awesome as it will walk around killing the White-tails (similar to Brown recluse) and Red-backs (similar to Black Widow)so I'm always happy to share with one. I typed in Huntsman spider on YouTube and have watched this video a couple of times... www.youtube.com/watch?v=r011GRdai8QIs this the one you are talking about? Oh, and then I watched this very intriguing video - I just may watch it again! Man untangles wolf spider... www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2wY_NKNFqMPerhaps if I watch enough of these I won't be so wary of the BIG spiders. I have gotten oh so much better in regards to the smaller ones... Like daddy longlegs, those little hairy black ones that jump, etc. Now I feel kinda bad for getting rid of that one in the coop but honestly, when it is two feet from my head and I have no idea how to "rehome" it - I just didn't know what to do! If it had been anywhere else in the coop - ok, at least a good 4 foot from me - I wouldn't have cared at all... ~Mari
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Post by aussiedarren on Jun 14, 2019 3:55:17 GMT
Mari-in-IN, I typed in Huntsman spider on YouTube and have watched this video a couple of times... www.youtube.com/watch?v=r011GRdai8QIs this the one you are talking about? Oh, and then I watched this very intriguing video - I just may watch it again! Man untangles wolf spider... www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2wY_NKNFqMPerhaps if I watch enough of these I won't be so wary of the BIG spiders. I have gotten oh so much better in regards to the smaller ones... Like daddy longlegs, those little hairy black ones that jump, etc. Now I feel kinda bad for getting rid of that one in the coop but honestly, when it is two feet from my head and I have no idea how to "rehome" it - I just didn't know what to do! If it had been anywhere else in the coop - ok, at least a good 4 foot from me - I wouldn't have cared at all... ~Mari That's the one the are stalking hunters so don't actually spin webs, so the ideal spider to have around the house especially because they eat the nasty ones. The Wolf spider in that video looks very similar with different camouflage. Heck I'm more than happy to get rid of some spiders especially White-tails, I have been bitten by one and it has the same bacteriological effect as your Brown Recluse so lots of antibiotics required to clear it up.
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Post by Mari-in-IN on Jun 14, 2019 4:03:49 GMT
Heck I'm more than happy to get rid of some spiders especially White-tails, I have been bitten by one and it has the same bacteriological effect as your Brown Recluse so lots of antibiotics required to clear it up. My husband worked with a guy that had been bitten by a Brown Recluse... He didn't get medical attention near as quick as he should have and by the time he did - it was beyond nasty and a lot of his leg had to be carved out... ~Mari
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Post by Mari-in-IN on Jun 14, 2019 11:02:15 GMT
Never, ever snakes. Mice and rates, I'd rather not. Spiders I don't mind. We have a tarantula living in the garden. First time I've ever seen one outside of a zoo exhibit. I make sure to say hi when I go out there. Your fellow looks like a wolf spider. I find them in them in our house pretty often. I've never known them to be aggressive, jumpy yes (not that that matters now ). I also think they help keep the scorpion population in check. We've always had one or the other, never both. I'll take the spiders over the scorpions any day. A tarantula?!?! Oh my word I'm so glad we don't have those here outside of pet stores! That is pretty wild I must say... I hadn't thought of scorpions for years. Many moons ago when we lived on the Gulf coast, I saw a scorpion and was so intrigued by it never having seen one before. Wicked little devil it was... Now I just thought of something that I hadn't thought of for YEARS! The time I accidentally put my arm on a fire ant mound when I was a teenager. The scars did fade away after many years... ~Mari
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Post by dustawaits on Jun 14, 2019 13:41:09 GMT
My boss had one in his bathroom. He wanted to see how big it would get. He said it stayed on the tub side while he took a bath......
That is one spider that I stay away from or ..... I really do not want spiders in the house. But the orb spiders...my DD had a very enjoyable summer one year as a child. She had sixteen that had webs on the barn eaves. She spent hours catching grasshoppers and feeding those spiders. I had never seen so many, don’t know why there were, but there never were that many again in the years we lived there.
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Post by Tim Horton on Jul 5, 2019 20:26:57 GMT
Um...... We don't have snakes. Nothing more than the occasional garter snake. At that they never get more than 30cm long (about a foot) Spiders are rarely bigger than a dime, and none dangerous. I try to leave them alone as if they will trap a fly or mosquito, you go spidy.
We do have a long tail weasel. A relative to the short tail weasel and ermine. They are dangerous to full grown chickens. I routinely trap on average one a year in the vestibule of the chicken house. They are considered a fur bearer, but can, will be dealt with when they threaten livestock.
This weasel is just the small end of the chain of predators. It goes from weasel up to martin, raven, owl, eagle, fox, coyote, wolf, Canadian lynx, cougar, and two kinds of bears.... Bush life aint easy at times.
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Post by aoconnor on Jul 31, 2019 0:05:05 GMT
Oh man, I do hate spiders, but not as much as I hate snakes. I dispatched a HUGE rat snake the other night...it was curled up under one of my "seats" that I have in my coop. The seats are elevated off the floor by about 10 inches, and that darned huge snake was all cozy in there with a bunch of egg bulges. I am tired of losing my chickens to rat snakes that think they can swallow one, and I really hate when I have fertile eggs under a hen that get eaten by the snakes, so I catch them in a snake pole then chop off they heads with a shovel:-) The very next night a much smaller rat snake was moving toward my coop, and off went its head too!
Spiders, I deal with them because they do so much to control the scorpions and other insects around my place. The other night I was coming out of our barn after checking horses and nearly speed on a tarantula. I have only seen one of those since we moved to Texas 10 years ago, and I hope I don't see another one for another 10 years! I didn't kill it because I just simply couldn't stand to hear that big of a squish. So the spider lives on, and I watch my step aound the barn after dark:-)
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Post by Woodpecker on Jul 31, 2019 14:31:55 GMT
When I was a child and even when my children were little, there were garter snakes, Daddy Long Legs and toads, all over! I haven't seen any of them for a long time. I'm relentless if I see a spider, even a carpenter ant in the house. I will not let it get away and am relentless in getting it out of the house! Yesterday there was a big beetle (which I haven't seen in a long time either) on my top basement step. One shot of raid and I picked it up and through it outside. Cave crickets are another thing that give me heebee geebees. I have those in my basement wash room. Once I was putting clothes in the washer and there was one that jumped ON ME from the wall in front of me.
Now I have glue traps all over the basement...amazing how many there are!!!
If I saw that spider Mari...I would have been gone in a flash!!!
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Post by Cabin Fever on Aug 1, 2019 16:31:37 GMT
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Post by Mari-in-IN on Aug 3, 2019 19:32:22 GMT
Yep! That would do it for me! Oh my word, that just so creeps me out. That really is a good one. ~Mari
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Post by Mari-in-IN on Aug 3, 2019 19:35:20 GMT
My boss had one in his bathroom. He wanted to see how big it would get. He said it stayed on the tub side while he took a bath...... That is one spider that I stay away from or ..... I really do not want spiders in the house. But the orb spiders...my DD had a very enjoyable summer one year as a child. She had sixteen that had webs on the barn eaves. She spent hours catching grasshoppers and feeding those spiders. I had never seen so many, don’t know why there were, but there never were that many again in the years we lived there. That is so creepy in regards to your boss - but hey - to each his own! And that really is cool in regards to your DD - what a neat gal... ~Mari
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Post by Mari-in-IN on Aug 3, 2019 20:08:54 GMT
Um...... We don't have snakes. Nothing more than the occasional garter snake. At that they never get more than 30cm long (about a foot) Spiders are rarely bigger than a dime, and none dangerous. I try to leave them alone as if they will trap a fly or mosquito, you go spidy. We do have a long tail weasel. A relative to the short tail weasel and ermine. They are dangerous to full grown chickens. I routinely trap on average one a year in the vestibule of the chicken house. They are considered a fur bearer, but can, will be dealt with when they threaten livestock. This weasel is just the small end of the chain of predators. It goes from weasel up to martin, raven, owl, eagle, fox, coyote, wolf, Canadian lynx, cougar, and two kinds of bears.... Bush life aint easy at times. I'd say not! Here's a pic of "Sheila" the snake that hangs out in our garden. I will have to pay more attention the next time I see "her". I'm thinking she's between 2 and 3 feet? Wow, that is great that you don't have big and/or poisonous spiders. I just cannot imagine that. As far as the others - people have claimed that they have seen cougar and here recently a wolf in our area. I don't know about that. But two types of bears? We definitely don't have to worry about that at all and I don't envy the folks that do live in those areas - that is for sure. ~Mari
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