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Cheesecat wrote:

alarmingrick wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:

metallifan wrote:Comparing 2 different photos instead of a side-by-side is silly. As well, there are a number of obvious and noticable differences.

The hobo spider has a very reddish-brown rust colour to it - similar to the one in that picture. Also, look at the abdomen - Hobo spider has a dark one, wolf spider abdomens are light. Hobo spiders also have much longer mandibles with large, dark brown bulbous tips. Wolf Spiders (At least, our local species) do not.

When you see like 2 or 3 per day running around your house or your basement steps, you tend to have time to take note of details

I don't think I'm going to remember the differences. Oh well, at least they're not very aggressive (according to Wikipedia). Is this image better?

Spoiler:

Do you really want to find a spider, then have to run and gran your chart?

"I got bit by I Wolf Spider I think, I'll grab my chart just to be sure oh shi-".

Exactly!

Wolf and Hobo spiders look pretty similar, that said just avoid anything that looks like them.

corpsesarefun wrote:Wolf and Hobo spiders look pretty similar, that said just avoid anything that looks like them.

But wolf spiders are harmless in fact I rather see them alive that way they can get rid of more annoying bugs in the house, although when there webs start getting in the way that's where I draw the line.

They are on the dangerous section of the chart, it is going to be killed if it goes near me.

corpsesarefun wrote:They are on the dangerous section of the chart, it is going to be killed if it goes near me.

Wolf spiders aren't dangerous unless you consider a bite similar to a mosquito's dangerous then maybe so.

I kill mosquito's on sight

I'm not a bug person.

Everyone should kill Mosquitos on sight, lest they give you malaria. No thank you. Where's me bug spray....

corpsesarefun wrote:I kill mosquito's on sight

I'm not a bug person.

I do too, but that's because if I know they're going to bite me if I do nothing, unlike wolf spiders who aren't very aggressive at all plus mosquito's are my least favourite animal next to wasps and horseflies.

Man I'll celebrate the day I see those insects extinct.

Winged insects are vile, as are fat bodied insects.

That is why moths are my ultimate enemy,

corpsesarefun wrote:Winged insects are vile, as are fat bodied insects.

That is why moths are my ultimate enemy,

I don't mind most insects, but if they ever try to feth with me then it's on.

Moths fly towards my face and I flail wildly like a little girl.

corpsesarefun wrote:Moths fly towards my face and I flail wildly like a little girl.

I'm like that with wasps, I even start legging it at times.

I'm ok with wasps, I just kill them.

Moths pop when I kill them though, I can't be doing with that...

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Naw, everyone should just keep a chunk of aluminum downpipe strapped to their belts at all times. When I used to help my buddy gutter houses on his Saturday shifts, we'd carry downpipe in our tool harnesses. There was nothing more satisfying than the loud, hollow *THWACK!* of a wasp just getting -nailed- by a good swing of the downpipe for being an annoying phallus.

metallifan wrote:Naw, everyone should just keep a chunk of aluminum downpipe strapped to their belts at all times. When I used to help my buddy gutter houses on his Saturday shifts, we'd carry downpipe in our tool harnesses. There was nothing more satisfying than the loud, hollow *THWACK!* of a wasp just getting -nailed- by a good swing of the downpipe for being an annoying phallus.

Except for the screams of the one guy with the pipe that misses!

Cheesecat wrote:

metallifan wrote:Comparing 2 different photos instead of a side-by-side is silly. As well, there are a number of obvious and noticable differences.

The hobo spider has a very reddish-brown rust colour to it - similar to the one in that picture. Also, look at the abdomen - Hobo spider has a dark one, wolf spider abdomens are light. Hobo spiders also have much longer mandibles with large, dark brown bulbous tips. Wolf Spiders (At least, our local species) do not.

When you see like 2 or 3 per day running around your house or your basement steps, you tend to have time to take note of details

I don't think I'm going to remember the differences. Oh well, at least they're not very aggressive (according to Wikipedia). Is this image better?

I'M NEVER...EVER GOING TO AMERICA NOW!!!!!!!!!

black templar wrote:

I'M NEVER...EVER GOING TO AMERICA NOW!!!!!!!!!

Really? Our stuff is pretty timid. If that scares you, do NOT look at a chart of what the Aussies have to deal with.....

The only thing that really concerns me on that chart is the female mouse spider.

Dreadwinter wrote:

black templar wrote:

I'M NEVER...EVER GOING TO AMERICA NOW!!!!!!!!!

Really? Our stuff is pretty timid. If that scares you, do NOT look at a chart of what the Aussies have to deal with.....

I know what they have seen theirs it made me cry!!!

Big @$$ spiders living in a tiolet? No thank you! I like to have a dump in peace.

When bugs attack... Gun them down with flak fire! I don't mean some pansy bug spray, I mean WW2 anti-air guns! God help you if you miss, however.

Have you guys ever tried scooping up one anthill and dumping it next to another?

Its pretty fun to watch the little buggers fight to the death and rip each other's heads off...

Ah, the days of childish genocide and racial cleansing...

WARORK93 wrote:Have you guys ever tried scooping up one anthill and dumping it next to another?

Its pretty fun to watch the little buggers fight to the death and rip each other's heads off...

Ah, the days of childish genocide and racial cleansing...

That is my new life goal, that sounds awesome.

Cheesecat wrote:

WARORK93 wrote:Have you guys ever tried scooping up one anthill and dumping it next to another?

Its pretty fun to watch the little buggers fight to the death and rip each other's heads off...

Ah, the days of childish genocide and racial cleansing...

That is my new life goal, that sounds awesome.

Oh trust me, with some magnifying glasses you've got a front row ticket to a miniature version of the Battle of Hastings...

Just make sure you use gloves when carrying the hill in whatever container you've got...they get pissed when you scoop up their pad...

I've tried dumping fire ants on black ants before...the results are pretty much extermination...

WARORK93 wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:

WARORK93 wrote:Have you guys ever tried scooping up one anthill and dumping it next to another?

Its pretty fun to watch the little buggers fight to the death and rip each other's heads off...

Ah, the days of childish genocide and racial cleansing...

That is my new life goal, that sounds awesome.

Oh trust me, with some magnifying glasses you've got a front row ticket to a miniature version of the Battle of Hastings...

Just make sure you use gloves when carrying the hill in whatever container you've got...they get pissed when you scoop up their pad...

I've tried dumping fire ants on black ants before...the results are pretty much extermination...

Reminds me of the time where I used a NASA grade telescope to burn an anthill. (JK)

I have an easier way than picking the hill up. My buddy and I used to put a trail of peanut butter from one ant hill to another. No mess involved

I once got a hive of Fire Ants drunk on Vodka, then used a trail of it to lead them to another Fire Ant hill, which was already slurping the stuff. The results were hilarious. They were slogging about, falling over, and then battling drunkedly over Smirnoff!

Deadshot wrote:I once got a hive of Fire Ants drunk on Vodka, then used a trail of it to lead them to another Fire Ant hill, which was already slurping the stuff. The results were hilarious. They were slogging about, falling over, and then battling drunkedly over Smirnoff!

Reminds me of the time I was really little and my friends and I sprayed raid into our super soakers and shot it at a migrating ant hive.

Cheesecat wrote:"I got bit by I Wolf Spider I think, I'll grab my chart just to be sure oh shi..."

Good lord, it's not like you're going to keel over and die right away from any spider bite. As I understand it (not ever having been bitten by a dangerously poisonous spider), you often don't even realize you were bitten at the time (big-fanged spiders like the mouse and funnel-web spiders being the obvious exception). What you do notice - over time - is an area that starts swelling painfully and goes downhill from there, usually several hours - or even a day or so - later.

Black Widows aren't always large. The can be quite small and delicate. They can also get pretty fething huge in the right environment, say in an outhouse where flies are plentiful. Your indoor toilet - and therefore your private parts - should be quite safe. They are web dwellers, so as long as you don't go sticking your fingers (or other bits) into their web you'll probably be okay.

Brown Reclues aren't so bad. As their name says, they are quite reclusive and tend to hide in the walls, so you may well not even realize the share your home with you. The ones living in my apartment building are like that. I'm sure there are a ton of them inside the walls, controlling the roach and ant population, and I'm fine with that. Not to say that one venturing into my apartment will not be treated with extreme hostility, mind you...

Down side is they are active hunters, so they tend to wander around a LOT. One morning I put on my bathrobe and sat down at the computer. I ran my hands down my robe over my legs to smooth it out and something that felt quite a bit like a rubber band rolled along underneath my left hand. I wondered how a rubber band got there, so I picked it up to look at it... only to find a brown recluse sitting on my hand. Freaked me out pretty good, that did. I screamed, shook my hand at the far corner of the room to get it off, jumped up and ran to get my steel-toed boots. On the minus, I never did find the booger to turn him into spider pate, on the plus he apparently didn't feel like biting me, thank the gods!

The real fun part for a spider-conserver like me, who doesn't like to just kill spiders on sight because I perfer them to roaches and ants, is another species of spiders that looks just like a brown recluse but isn't poisonous to humans. The only way to tell them apart is to look closely at the cephalothroax. Brown Recluses have a guitar- or violin-shaped mark on their back. The harmless spider, ironically enough, has a mark that looks an awful lot like a human skull.

(Yes, the one that freaked me out had a violin mark. I got a real clear look at if from 6-8 inches or so. )