Terra's Worst Nightmare

Banned 12 years ago

What a loss. They bought the house, moved out, sued and won and the former owners declared bankruptcy and the insurance didn't pay and now a stinking mortgage company owns it.

Too bad they didn't just hire the same people the mortgage co hired to exterminate them.

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Kay King 12 years ago

"There'll be nothing alive in there after this," said Tim McCarthy, president of the company hired to fix the problem once and for all.

...and if they are wrong???
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HeySal

12 years ago

It's really hard to believe they were this hard to get rid of. Not sure what to think about this story other than ............oh yuck.

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Kurt

12 years ago

I'm curious about what else was in the house? 4500-6000 spiders have to be eating something...

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ThomM

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

I'm curious about what else was in the house? 4500-6000 spiders have to be eating something...

I'm guessing there where none of these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata
I know they keep the spider population under control in my house.

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Dennis Gaskill

12 years ago

Originally Posted by ThomM

I'm guessing there where none of these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata
I know they keep the spider population under control in my house.

Oh yuck, I hate centipedes. CREEPY!

Speaking of Terra, where has she been lately?

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Claude Whitacre 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

I'm curious about what else was in the house? 4500-6000 spiders have to be eating something...

One of the funniest things I've read in awhile. Also, one of the most unsetting. It's a great line for a horror movie.

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

Oh yuck, I hate centipedes. CREEPY!

Speaking of Terra, where has she been lately?

Hiding from Kurt.

Right now, Terra is thinking "I miss Riffle".
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ThomM

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill

Oh yuck, I hate centipedes. CREEPY!

Speaking of Terra, where has she been lately?

I'll admit Dennis the first time I saw one in my house I about crapped myself.
I was sitting at my desk bare foot and happened to look down. There was one about an inch and a half long along side my left foot staring at it with it's feelers waving in the air.
Unfortunately I killed it before I looked up what it was.
Then I found out how common they are and knew there had to be plenty more in the house. Then I learned how they primarily only come out in the dark and almost started sleeping with a night light on.
More then likely if you live in their range you have them in your house, roaming around at night watching you sleep.

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sbucciarel

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by ThomM

I'll admit Dennis the first time I saw one in my house I about crapped myself.
I was sitting at my desk bare foot and happened to look down. There was one about an inch and a half long along side my left foot staring at it with it's feelers waving in the air.
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More then likely if you live in their range you have them in your house, roaming around at night watching you sleep.

We have them and I always feel bad if I injure one. They're pretty fragile. I get a bit creeped out if one is sitting on my nightstand watching me, but I just try to shoo it away gently. They are so harmless and not really very scary looking.

This one worries me. I've been seeing a few of these around the house. Had one last year that was quite large and it was sitting beside a toad that had gotten into the house. The toad was dead. I don't know what kind of spider this is, but I've caught the ones I see and put them outside.

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ForumGuru

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

I don't know what kind of spider this is, but I've caught the ones I see and put them outside.

That looks like a species of Wolf spider. If it is a Wolf spider they can be aggressive but the venom is not usually dangerous to humans. Wolf spiders are generally considered beneficial to the environment and some folks recommend you capture and release the ones you find inside to the outside where their predatory behavior can be beneficial to the landscape.

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sbucciarel

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by ForumGuru

It looks like a species of Wolf spider If it is they can be aggressive but the venom is not usually considered dangerous to humans. Wolf spiders are usually considered beneficial and many recommend you capture and release the ones you find inside to the outside where their predatory behavior is beneficial to the landscape.

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That's what I do. I seriously don't like them in the house, especially when I think it was complicit in the death of that toad.

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Kurt

12 years ago

Originally Posted by lanfear63

Take away pizza's of course. And they surfed the web a lot.

Being recluse they had a fear of the eastern countries dictators. Iraqnophobia was a common complaint.

If arachnophibia is the fear of spiders, and Iraqnophobia is the fear of dictators, then irocnophobia must be the fear of mullets.

(Note to Claude: I'm sure you won't get the "iroc" reference...it's a model of the Chevy camaro.)

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Kay King 12 years ago

I have to put these outside every now and then

North American Millipede

About 3-4 inches long - so hard to miss as they crawl across the floor. They are slow so easy to catch and release.

My theory about spiders is that if they want to be safe they need to stay outside. Period.
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Claude Whitacre

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

If arachnophibia is the fear of spiders, and Iraqnophobia is the fear of dictators, then irocnophobia must be the fear of mullets.

(Note to Claude: I'm sure you won't get the "iroc" reference...it's a model of the Chevy camaro.)

I totally got the reference. I'm cool...I'm hip.

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bizgrower 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Claude Whitacre

I totally got the reference. I'm cool...I'm hip.

I'll admit to being uncool - which according to the other thread is kinda cool.
While I know of IROC Camaros, I did not know they are associated with mullets.

To make up for that uncoolness - that I just shake off - I know there is or used to
be a website devoted to mullets. Now I need a cool handshake of the day website
and I'll have it made. (After I learn how to do the correct cool handshake.)
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HeySal

12 years ago

Originally Posted by sbucciarel

We have them and I always feel bad if I injure one. They're pretty fragile. I get a bit creeped out if one is sitting on my nightstand watching me, but I just try to shoo it away gently. They are so harmless and not really very scary looking.

This one worries me. I've been seeing a few of these around the house. Had one last year that was quite large and it was sitting beside a toad that had gotten into the house. The toad was dead. I don't know what kind of spider this is, but I've caught the ones I see and put them outside.

That's what I do with anything I find that I don't want in my house. Spiders are very beneficial creatures..........they also rank the top 15th for intelligence in species. The way they show fear when approached makes me very empathetic about just walking up and crushing them just for trying to find a good place to survive. I take them outside. If it's too cold, and they aren't poisonous, I'll just shoo them off and in spring do a trap and release. I really don't believe in killing just to kill -- and I don't care what it is. It has meaning in its ecosystem and a right to live. It's not their fault we've invaded every damned nook and cranny on earth.

Those little black and white fuzzy jumping spiders are kind of cute. I had one in my room for awhile and one night it landed on my hand and startled me and got tossed. It seemed okay - ran off - and it's never come near me since, LOL. I'm not sure if it lives in here or outside, but whenever I see it it's around the windowsill and I usually have the window at least cracked open an inch or so.

When I was a kid I was deadly afraid of spiders. It took a lot of years for me to learn to accept them, and it was their fear reaction to me that built a my empathy for them. If they're smart enough to be afraid, they're smart enough to respect their life and pain a little, too.

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joseph7384

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

I'm curious about what else was in the house? 4500-6000 spiders have to be eating something...

Dietarily, brown recluses are little different from other spiders. They eat small insects and other spiders. As a running spider (not a spider that uses webs to catch prey), recluses chase down prey like a wolf. The purpose of their venom is to subdue their prey.

I also heard that they eat flies and moths.

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lanfear63

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Kurt

I'm curious about what else was in the house? 4500-6000 spiders have to be eating something...

Take away pizza's of course. And they surfed the web a lot.

Being recluse they had a fear of the eastern countries dictators. Iraqnophobia was a common complaint.

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Claude Whitacre

12 years ago

Originally Posted by lanfear63

Take away pizza's of course. And they surfed the web a lot.

Being recluse they had a fear of the eastern countries dictators. Iraqnophobia was a common complaint.

Iragnophobia...........Jeesh.......that's priceless.

Hurry back from your cruise.

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Dan Riffle

12 years ago

I had a mullet and an IROC, but not at the same time. Thankfully, I dodged that cliche.

On topic, if I were the owner, or even a neighbor, I'd probably set that house on fire.

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HeySal

12 years ago

I'm seeing that this house sat right on the edge of a golf course and am betting the golf course drove them there by spraying toxins all over hell and back and drove them there. I'd check that out and sue the golf course if what they were spraying by my property was toxic crap.

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SteveJohnson

12 years ago

I got bit in 2001 by what the Idaho extension service said was a hobo. I was putting on a tyvek paint suit that I had left overnight in the garage of a house we were painting. Felt a pinprick just above my ankle, felt the damn thing crawling up my leg. Grabbed it with a rag and stuck it in a shopping bag.

Didn't think much more about it until I got home that night. It never really hurt, but where it bit me was all red and starting to weep. Couple of days later it was the size of a quarter. Went to the doctor with the now-dead spider. They took it to the extension service and found out what it was. Then they wanted to 'debride' the area to keep the damage from spreading. WTF? You want to cut out half my calf? I don't think so.

Wrapped in charcoal poultice. Took about three weeks but finally healed over. Still have a good sized scar. This is it on the second day:

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sbucciarel Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by SteveJohnson

Wrapped in charcoal poultice. Took about three weeks but finally healed over. Still have a good sized scar. This is it on the second day:

Ughhh. That is awful. I've heard that hobos are pretty poisonous.
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HeySal

12 years ago

I got bit by a spider on the calf this summer out in the field. Don't know what kind it was. I also felt the "pinprick" then it started to burn. I applied hydrogen peroxide, then used hydrocortizone, which I've heard both yea's and nay's about. It seemed to work pretty well. It also made quite a large "infection" zone, and took weeks to completely heal, but finally went away. I don't even remember where it was now. Can't find a scar.

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positivenegative 12 years ago

Originally Posted by SteveJohnson

I got bit in 2001 by what the Idaho extension service said was a hobo.]

Originally Posted by HeySal

I got bit by a spider on the calf this summer . . .

My grandad said they had them real big in his day . . .
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