I’m pretty sure I heard somewhere that daddy long legs are the most poisonous spider in the world however their mouths are too small to bite humans so they do nothing to us unless they somehow get into our bloodstreamI have a few different species of real spiders living in my grow room including black widows and we get along just fine. Don't know how they survive but they seem to do OK. Sometimes when sweeping up I'll see one in the dust and wait for it to get back to the the wall and safety of the cracks. I never see any bugs in my sticky traps but maybe the spiders get them first.
Daddy Longlegs can bite but only if you mess with them and unless allergic it won't do any harm.
I have a few different species of real spiders living in my grow room including black widows and we get along just fine. Don't know how they survive but they seem to do OK. Sometimes when sweeping up I'll see one in the dust and wait for it to get back to the the wall and safety of the cracks. I never see any bugs in my sticky traps but maybe the spiders get them first.
Daddy Longlegs can bite but only if you mess with them and unless allergic it won't do any harm.
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I got bit by a Daddy a few years back but nothing bad happened. Got in the edge of my glove and bit me on the inside of my wrist. Bit of a welt and itchy for a few days but I get a worse reaction from mosquitoes these days.
I live 7 hours north of Edmonton and not sure where those widows came from but they're up here too. I caught one in a little glass vial and could see the hourglass mark on her belly. One thing we don't seem to have up here is fleas which is nice as we have 3 cats to keep the mice down and a dog to keep the coyotes away from our chickens. No gophers for target practice either tho.
Hope that you enjoyed the meals that those gophers gave you. I really liked porcupine, even better than snowshoe hare.. It really doesn't have the crazy "wild" taste you'd expect for a creature that eats bark and branches for much of the year. lolI live 7 hours north of Edmonton and not sure where those widows came from but they're up here too. I caught one in a little glass vial and could see the hourglass mark on her belly. One thing we don't seem to have up here is fleas which is nice as we have 3 cats to keep the mice down and a dog to keep the coyotes away from our chickens. No gophers for target practice either tho.
Yeah, I heard that too way back when I was a kid. I remember one day watching a daddy long legs slowly walk to my foot, but I wasn't worried because it couldn't bite me, in theory. Well guess what? That fucker bit me hard! It hurt for a week, but I didn't have to go to the hospital or anything, so not too sure about that whole theory. I dunno, maybe it was a big mouthed mutant?
Not into eating rodents much. We'd shoot a bunch then the magpies and crows would show up to fest on them and become target practise in their own right. Then the coyotes . . . .
Never shot a coyote even the ones trying to get into our chicken coop.
Sounds like my stepdaughter. Lots of cobwebs in the stairwell to the basement so never had to worry about her going down there and snooping around when she was younger. 28 now and still shrieks when she sees a spider. Same thing with moths for her mom. Fine with butterflies but hates the crap out of moths. We get these huge ones here too. Bigger than a Monarch butterfly and really cool looking. Phobias must suck but I don't seem to have any other than mites and thrips.
I've been bit by them too but never heard about them being particularly dangerous. Bad one is the Brown Recluse mostly on the west coast US. Get like a flesh eating thing going on radiating out from the bite that can eventually kill you without treatment. Met a lady in Oregon back in '92 that had a silver dollar sized scar on the back of her arm from one. Nasty.
They're my all natural exterminators, they eat everything.
Yeah, I've heard about them. Not really sure how to identify them, should prolly find out.I've been bit by them too but never heard about them being particularly dangerous. Bad one is the Brown Recluse mostly on the west coast US. Get like a flesh eating thing going on radiating out from the bite that can eventually kill you without treatment. Met a lady in Oregon back in '92 that had a silver dollar sized scar on the back of her arm from one. Nasty.
Here’s mineI've been bit by them too but never heard about them being particularly dangerous. Bad one is the Brown Recluse mostly on the west coast US. Get like a flesh eating thing going on radiating out from the bite that can eventually kill you without treatment. Met a lady in Oregon back in '92 that had a silver dollar sized scar on the back of her arm from one. Nasty.
