Spiders

Smokeydog · Jun 25, 2020

When we were kids we caught black widow spiders along the sidewalks at the house to give to Dad’s friend. He was an instrument machinist. He built equipment to hold the spider and reel the silk. Then use the silk to make optical reticles, cross hairs or grids for Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The black widow silk being the best for that application.

More scared of the aggressive wolf spiders in the barn. Learned to watch out and look. Have had a few maybe spider bites. Never saw the spider. Take a long time to heal.

caver · Jun 25, 2020

Brown Recluse tend to make a really sloppy half-*** web. I've found the glue traps you fold into a little lean-to work very well for BR spiders.

Smokeydog · Jun 26, 2020

Black Widow Spider Silk in World War I and II | Owlcation

Frankenkubota · Jun 26, 2020

Of course we have all kinds of spiders and I have the bites to prove it. I walk the old logging trails every morning, no ones been out there for 30 years or lived here for over 100, bugs rule! You learn real quick to carry a long stick to bust thru the webs, nasty feeling, web across the face, first thing in the morning!

While clearing the logging trails, look what I found, mother natureç—´ spider exterminator. Iè‡´e also got a family of wrens nesting in my rtv so, it has not moved for 3 weeks, 1 more week to go, never again! Iè‡´e been fascinated by how mr and mrs wren feed the babies, what a team! They eat spiders and lots of them! Iè‡´e heard that å*µuinea hens are good for bugs but nothin else. How are those hens with ticks? In 3 months I know Iè‡´e picked off 100 ticks at least. Im award the dangers associated with ticks, I can either do the best I can re the ticks or, walk away. Neighbor said Irish spring soap keeps ticks off you. Didnç¨š work in my case but nice smell, better than normal!

The cameras in these phone are something.

Rain stopped, goin on 20 hours of dry weather!

kenmbz · Jun 26, 2020

Here is a tree spider with egg sack, they are pretty harmless but they get big like this. Have lots of wolf spiders, interesting to watch them hunt.
When we were in Massachusetts we had a spider in our front barn window that was almost the size of my hand. That part of the room was his!

joefromga · Jun 27, 2020

These come out nightly around the lights and are mostly gone in the morning.

Dwellonroof · Jun 27, 2020

The spider taketh hold with her hands, and is in kings palaces. Proverbs 30:28

Frankenkubota · Jun 27, 2020

Spiders! And the stories about ww2.

Reminded me....

I was lucky I was able to meet with and work with scientists and professors both in electronics and medicine. I was in the real world so I got a taste of the private sector and Ivy League life, no comment.

At least 10 years ago, At one of the many trade shows I attended, I was talking to a friend, an ag prof at tx a&m, big time ag school, genetic engineering. He said they had developed a beef cow with a complete extra set of muscles. That’s $. He went on to say he could make a pig grow a hind leg from any of it vertebrae, ham, $.

All this stuff kinda creeps me out but, it’s been going on for 10000 years.

Spiders....He went on to tell me that either a&m or someone, isolated the gene from a certain spider that makes the web, introduced it to a dairy cow, and the milk produced, when refined etc is one of those super materials your hear about. Can’t break it, light as a feather, cheap......etc etc

These are the days of miracle and wonder

Hay Dude · Jun 27, 2020

I suffered a black widow bite about 4 years ago on my chest. It was really gross. Lots of bruising and necrotic flesh wound. Did not see it bite me, but noticed them in the hay barn here & there.

I hate biting bugs. They creep me out and I have to put up with them constantly.

miscjames · Jun 30, 2020

Frankenkubota said:
Of course we have all kinds of spiders and I have the bites to prove it. I walk the old logging trails every morning, no ones been out there for 30 years or lived here for over 100, bugs rule! You learn real quick to carry a long stick to bust thru the webs, nasty feeling, web across the face, first thing in the morning!

While clearing the logging trails, look what I found, mother natureç—´ spider exterminator. Iè‡´e also got a family of wrens nesting in my rtv so, it has not moved for 3 weeks, 1 more week to go, never again! Iè‡´e been fascinated by how mr and mrs wren feed the babies, what a team! They eat spiders and lots of them! Iè‡´e heard that å*µuinea hens are good for bugs but nothin else. How are those hens with ticks? In 3 months I know Iè‡´e picked off 100 ticks at least. Im award the dangers associated with ticks, I can either do the best I can re the ticks or, walk away. Neighbor said Irish spring soap keeps ticks off you. Didnç¨š work in my case but nice smell, better than normal!

The cameras in these phone are something.

Rain stopped, goin on 20 hours of dry weather!

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Frank get you some Permethrin and spray your boots and cloths that you hike in, Let the cloths dry. The cloths will be good for 30 days or 5 washings. you can either get the Sawyer Permethrin Pump Spray. Or get Permethrin from your local agi store and mix it yourself ( i have kids so i get the agi store concentrate and mix it in a 1 gallon sprayer). You will not have anymore issues with ticks. ( DO not spray it on you BODY). I guess i need to make a video of this. as i hear more and more people with tick trouble.