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I've seen widows around WNY, but it's pretty rare.  I mean, they're pretty skittish (as I'm sure you know), so they don't show up often.

 

Not sure how I'd feel about seeing hundreds of them at a time though--I used to own tarantulas, so I'm cool with spiders, but dang, that would bother me.

 

I hate spiders.  But honestly, killing all those in consecutive nights with poison was quite liberating and made me pretty numb to it and actually enjoyed hunting and eliminating those bastards haha.  Still hated they are here though.  I have no idea what caused it, never in my life seen anything like that and I grew up in the country when I was young and they were more prominent.  My guess is that they did some work on the stairs to the upstairs unit, and they are really old wood with an old closed in small area at bottom that is probably a black widow haven.  So my only guess is they disturbed that.  But what doesn't make sense is that they didnt show up on that one wall until several weeks later and showed up basically over night.  Some small some really big...all sizes.  

 

It was mostly on the one wall and my steps onto the beach that lead off that wall.  But we found some on the other side of the property too around some plants and my girls gardening table, just not as many.  

 

Luckily we dont really see them anymore, but I still check with the flashlight every single night I go out ready to kill those SOB's.  

 

Funny story, one day when I was killing a few I found in the day time, a homeless lady was walking by and asked me what I was doing and started giving me crap for killing them.  I just told her notes will be taken into consideration lol.  Then continued drenching those bastards in poison lol.  

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26 minutes ago, brianthomas said:

Yep, North Buffalo/Kenmore atm. You wouldn't really expect these things around the city until you remember spiders are everywhere.

The big ones don't really bother me, they're actually pretty cool. Its the one's you can't see that get under my skin.

I’m near the airport and while I haven’t had 1 that big we do get our share come springtime 

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Hard to tell how big this thing is without something next to it for scale.

 

I once had an accumulation of oak leaves on my roof, and tarantulas started breeding in them. Then one came in through the upstairs bathroom window. I've always been sure to keep the roof clear since then.

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Most spiders are venomous.  It just that most of them don't have enough or potent enough venom to give you more than a little skin irritation.  The brown recluse and black widows are the exceptions in the US.  There's no red hourglass that I can see on that spider, so that would rule out a black widow.  I'd step on it and not worry too much about what kind it is.

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When my mom passed away, I was clearing out the house in OP and I went in one of the bathrooms and turned on the ceiling fan and one of those- just like that in the picture- flew out and nearly landed on my head. I got a paper towel  to smush it and it reared up like it was going to leap and attack me. I’m not scared of spiders but that freaked me out. When I got it crunched like I was picking up a potato chip. I had no idea there are spiders like that in WNY.

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4 hours ago, Alphadawg7 said:

 

This was 25 years ago, yeah he recovered.  But was hospitalized for 2 weeks and was life threatening.  He was walking through an alfalfa field and his hands were hitting the tops of the alfalfa and he pulled his hand up and had a black widow on it and it bit him.  

 

Also, only the females bites are dangerous, so many black widow bites are not a big deal if it was from a male.  It is substantially more venomous than a rattle snake, although a rattlesnake bite injects significantly more venom into the body and is more threatening to humans as a result.  Younger and older people are more vulnerable to serious effect.  That may have been why my Uncle was so affected as he was in I think his mid to late 40's at the time of the bite.  There are also different species of black widow, some more threatening than others.  They are not "aggressive" but become aggressive if disturbed.  

 

The only reason I know this much is about 4 months ago out of now where, I got a massive black widow invasion literally over night.  Never seen anything like it.  I live beachfront in LA, and I am the last house on my beachfront street.  So my patio on the south side of my house runs about 6 feet away from my house and all the way to my driveway to separate my property from the bike path.  Its about 30 yards long I would guess.  Went to walk my dogs one night and I had about 20 black widows along that wall every couple feet all the way to my patio.  Killed them all with poison, came out the next night and over 20 again in similar places.  Killed them all and every night more would be back, just from that point on it was less each night.  Finally after a couple weeks I stopped finding them other than one once in a while.  Been here 10 years today to be exact, and never once had anything remotely close to that happen.  And they were just right in the open...its a cinderblock wall and a concrete patio.  Just webbed in some flower pots or from the wall to the concrete.  

 

And yeah, I know you said it didn't look like one, I was just agreeing with you on that and was just sharing for others what a black widow looks like as they are common here in CA.  Have no idea how often you see them in B-lo.  

 

Brown Recluse are definitely worse though, I know people in Vegas who have had big problems with them.  Major rule there is if you see one NEVER step on it.  They carry their young on the their belly so squishing it just makes them spread out and run.  Always use poison spray.  

I'm in L.A. too.  Sprayed a Black Widow in a friend's garage and saw it die.  Came back fifteen minutes later and  that mofo was back hanging where it was when I first saw it.  I damn near emptied the can when I sprayed it the first time.  ?

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4 minutes ago, purple haze said:

I'm in L.A. too.  Sprayed a Black Widow in a friend's garage and saw it die.  Came back fifteen minutes later and  that mofo was back hanging where it was when I first saw it.  I damn near emptied the can when I sprayed it the first time.  ?

 

Whoa...I always squish them after death though ha.  Double tap haha

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7 minutes ago, Alphadawg7 said:

 

Whoa...I always squish them after death though ha.  Double tap haha

I hear you.  I was too freaked out.  That thing fell off the wall, rolled around, twisted up, convulsed and stopped moving.  How the hell it came back to life I'll never know, or it was playing possum.  Either way it's just no good. LolLoL

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2 minutes ago, purple haze said:

I hear you.  I was too freaked out.  That thing fell off the wall, rolled around, twisted up, convulsed and stopped moving.  How the hell it came back to life I'll never know, or it was playing possum.  Either way it's just no good. LolLoL

you probably just altered a species....raid resistant ..?

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20 minutes ago, purple haze said:

I'm in L.A. too.  Sprayed a Black Widow in a friend's garage and saw it die.  Came back fifteen minutes later and  that mofo was back hanging where it was when I first saw it.  I damn near emptied the can when I sprayed it the first time.  ?

 

Most insects are killed ingesting poison when they clean themselves and spiders don't clean themselves.    So spraying it just made him less popular with non-spiders.    Once you get them you gotta' manually crush em to get good results but the ortho bug barrier product does a good job of keeping them out.    I live in the woods along water and the frickin place would be totally cocooned if I didn't spray it every two months.     But the first time I had to manually kill about 1000 spiders including a bunch of these wolf spiders.

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Most insects are killed ingesting poison when they clean themselves and spiders don't clean themselves.    So spraying it just made him less popular with non-spiders.    Once you get them you gotta' manually crush em to get good results but the ortho bug barrier product does a good job of keeping them out.    I live in the woods along water and the frickin place would be totally cocooned if I didn't spray it every two months.     But the first time I had to manually kill about 1000 spiders including a bunch of these wolf spiders.

I cap 'em with my trusty Daisy® BB gun that I've owned for 60 years. Gotta bring some semblance of sport to the table!

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50 minutes ago, SF Bills Fan said:

When my mom passed away, I was clearing out the house in OP and I went in one of the bathrooms and turned on the ceiling fan and one of those- just like that in the picture- flew out and nearly landed on my head. I got a paper towel  to smush it and it reared up like it was going to leap and attack me. I’m not scared of spiders but that freaked me out. When I got it crunched like I was picking up a potato chip. I had no idea there are spiders like that in WNY.

Paper towel? I think my house actually has these wolf spiders. I won't go near them. I've found Raid wasp spray kills them. I'll drench the whole basement whenever I see one. Yikes. 

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11 hours ago, thebandit27 said:

It's not a Brown Recluse, so there's nothing to worry about.

 

It doesn't look like a black widow either...there are black widows in WNY, but their reputation is far scarier than the effects of being bitten by one.  Sure, a little kid could get pretty sick/inflamed from a bite, but you almost certainly aren't going to die from it.

I was bit by a black widow spider on my finger while I was sleeping. I didn't even know I had been bit but noticed two puncture dots and some redness on my finger. I only found out it was a black widow because when I got up and was getting dressed it fell out of my hair and I captured it with a glass. I didn't get sick but ended up in the hospital overnight a few days later when a red line from an infection ran all the way up my arm and into my armpit. The doctor said I was lucky I came in, I almost didn't because it was getting late at night when I did. He said I could have lost my arm, or if it had got into my heart and organs my life.

  Don't know what kind of spider that is but it's not a black widow. 

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6 hours ago, TheTruthHurts said:

Paper towel? I think my house actually has these wolf spiders. I won't go near them. I've found Raid wasp spray kills them. I'll drench the whole basement whenever I see one. Yikes. 

Ha! I'm with you. Normally I would act like Kurt Russell in The Thing and pull out a flame thrower. That time I didn't, but most insect related interactions are dealt with harshly and with flame. 

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17 hours ago, Alphadawg7 said:

 

Ummmm, wrong about the Black Widows...at least the black widows we have in CA.  They bite and are quite venomous and my uncle was hospitalized 2 weeks and almost died off a bite on his hand.  Some people they bite can be less threatening and other it can be quite serious and even life threatening.

 

And that’s definitely not a black widow, which look nothing like that and are much smaller.  They are smooth with a sheen to them

The ones in Virginia when I lived there were all over grassy fields and didnt bother you, they'd scurry away.  Never got bit, saw wolf spiders growing up in Buffalo even a couple that big but didnt bother you.  The window spiders at the lake cabin in Canada my folks had were a different story.  They'd bite and you wake up with welts in the morning. I had take a flash lite butt end and kill them every evening or my brother would not sleep... they liked him... ?

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I had take a flash lite butt end and kill them every evening or my brother would not sleep... they liked him...

So must have you.  Some family dynamics would have resulted in the brother being devoured by about the middle of August.

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...is that Maxine???............

No way do I click on that link.  It’s probably Peter Pan.

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24 minutes ago, SoCal Deek said:

Here’s the real problem. What’s that on the floor? No self respecting Buffalonian has plush carpet in their basement! Heck we used to can tomatoes in ours for the winter. Come on Man!

Sounds like they are using it as a playroom. Or they were. 

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I've had these in my house before. They are bigger than the average spider, but this picture makes it look like the size of a turantula. They're not THAT big. However they are hideous and disgusting looking. I don't think these are wolf spiders. If I find them in my house, they must be destroyed. If I see them outside, I leave them cuz they'll eat the other bugs 

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12 hours ago, Turk71 said:

I was bit by a black widow spider on my finger while I was sleeping. I didn't even know I had been bit but noticed two puncture dots and some redness on my finger. I only found out it was a black widow because when I got up and was getting dressed it fell out of my hair and I captured it with a glass. I didn't get sick but ended up in the hospital overnight a few days later when a red line from an infection ran all the way up my arm and into my armpit. The doctor said I was lucky I came in, I almost didn't because it was getting late at night when I did. He said I could have lost my arm, or if it had got into my heart and organs my life.

  Don't know what kind of spider that is but it's not a black widow. 

That is a form of sepsis, which was called 'blood poisoning' in the past. You likely would been dead within a few days, had you not taken action.

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