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Don White wrote in news:ChqJg.6393$9u.76004@ursa-
nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca:

Absolutely gross! Not for the squeamish... or girlie men like Bert &
Frizzle.



I'm told amputation is the only way to stop it.....

A 20-something girl at our local Hess gas station, one of the attendants,
had her hand all wrapped up and I asked her what happened....brown recluse
had bit her in her garage while she was searching for something. The
bandage was because the doctor had cut out a fairly good size portion of
her thumb in an attempt to save her hand. She didn't know if it were going
to work as it was still eating away at it.

This is not a joke. This innocent-looking little spider, from a little
smaller than to a little bigger than a Canadian twoney can cause this slow
eating away of your flesh. They're not agressive, like Black Widows
protecting the nest. But, if you've pinched them, not watching where you
put your hand in their dark resting places they use in the daytime, you can
end up in serious trouble. They just are there, not chasing your hand or
anything. Very hard to ID without a close look. We have lots of little
brown spiders in SC.

We also have this HUGE garden spider that makes a massive web from several
points. One made a nest across the sidewalk at a friend's house in
historic downtown Charleston. The spider was, legtip to legtip in the
middle of her webtrap, 8" across! Her main body segment, whatever the back
part is called, was nearly as big as a "C" cell battery and beautifully
colored in yellow. They always weave this very intricate criss-cross
design of thousands of strands from the middle to the lower edge of the
web, very hard not to notice. Then, when you look close, there's another
TINY little spider also sharing this web. That's her MATE! As soon as he
mates with her, she eats him, wrapping him up with the rest of the prey,
his function now complete. I don't remember ever seeing one of them with
any kind of eggsac. I think that must be planted somewhere safe. We
watched her for about 2 weeks, came out one day and the whole web was just
gone, something I'd seen them do before. Not a remnant strand was left.

Well, as you lay there in your bunks tonight....don't worry....(c;

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Hi, Larry,

Not seeing a picture, but...

Larry wrote:


We also have this HUGE garden spider that makes a massive web from several
points. One made a nest across the sidewalk at a friend's house in
historic downtown Charleston. The spider was, legtip to legtip in the
middle of her webtrap, 8" across! Her main body segment, whatever the back
part is called, was nearly as big as a "C" cell battery and beautifully
colored in yellow.

Sounds like a banana spider...

AKA Golden Silk Spider...

http://www.shadygrovetrainingcenter....gallery.htm%00

Well, as you lay there in your bunks tonight....don't worry....(c;

Not I :{))

L8R

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"Skip Gundlach" wrote in
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http://www.shadygrovetrainingcenter....spider_photo_g
allery.htm%00


That's them! I couldn't think of the name....amazing animals, but I don't
want one as a pet....

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Winter is the solution to dock spiders !!!!
As autumn is quickly approaching the northern hemisphere .... just wait
until the atmospheric conditions are right and watch for the arrival of
the 'parachute spiders' who essentially travel around the world on
their silk parachutes. On the Chesapeake Bay when the atmospherics
are 'just right' (September & October) the GOSSAMER that collects in
the rigging from these parachute spiders is sometimes 'spectacular'.
info: http://homepage2.nifty.com/singingsa..._gossamer.html


In article . com,
Captain B wrote:

Our docks are just loaded with spiders, so of course the come and take
over our boat each weekend, does anyone have some clues as to what
might keep this from happening? Maybe a way to keep them out of our
cockpit at least?

Thanks
-BB
www.boatersbasement.com

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Rich Hampel wrote in news:110920061132356331%RhmpL33
@nospam.net:

Winter is the solution to dock spiders !!!!


In Charleston, we overwhelm them with gnats on the docks. The spiders
become so fat and overfed they die as the gnats stuff them with sacrificial
gnats, then the other gnats, the ones eating the boaters, eat the spiders.

It's a tradeoff. I had a problem with mosquitoes, until I put up 6 bat
houses. I don't know how the upper bats breathe or stand it inside those
black boxes. It's gotta be 150F in there, even in the shade. So many bats
stuff themselves in there there's no room for the spiders and bats hang out
the bottom, upside down, asleep all day. At dusk, bats come pouring out
across the yard eating any insect that dares move, sonars scanning in full
hunt mode 3B.....

Now, if I could just entice the bats into eating Palmetto bugs, the huge
roaches that carried off my neighbor's goat, we'd have pest control pretty
much under control! Unlike mosquitoes and gnats, however ugly they may
look, Palmetto bugs don't eat people, so are much less of a threat. They
pop when you step on them...(c;



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Somebody suggested some gekos.

how about some hop toads???


Jonathan Ganz wrote:
In article . com,
Captain B wrote:
Our docks are just loaded with spiders, so of course the come and take
over our boat each weekend, does anyone have some clues as to what
might keep this from happening? Maybe a way to keep them out of our
cockpit at least?

Thanks
-BB
www.boatersbasement.com

Gross. I've heard that Dr. Bronners soap works.

I'm sure there must be other organic compounds that would help...




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Rich Hampel wrote:
Winter is the solution to dock spiders !!!!
As autumn is quickly approaching the northern hemisphere .... just wait
until the atmospheric conditions are right and watch for the arrival of
the 'parachute spiders' who essentially travel around the world on
their silk parachutes. On the Chesapeake Bay when the atmospherics
are 'just right' (September & October) the GOSSAMER that collects in
the rigging from these parachute spiders is sometimes 'spectacular'.
info: http://homepage2.nifty.com/singingsa..._gossamer.html

This is common, though not all the way from Japan. In Chicago,
skyscraper window cleaners and exterior maintenance folks routinely are
bitten by spiders flying from Michigan, over the lake, at least 30
miles...

L8R

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Wayne.B wrote:

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But you can trust them!

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