Frozenforge Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 No creepy crawlies up here:) But you do want to peek outside the door before you open it you never know whats waiting outside for "Take Out" :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Yes I hear those birch trees can be *vicious*! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MagGeorge Posted September 20, 2012 Share Posted September 20, 2012 Scary stuff! Sometimes, your body just wants to get it on right away that you tend to forget the very basic of it all. Checking the safety gears. Good thing you discovered her before it struck you. She can be deadly, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5starhobo (blake) Posted May 25, 2013 Share Posted May 25, 2013 One of my relatives sells these little "tasers" that he uses to treat brown recluse bites. He specializes in brown recluse bites. The shock from the taser is only 1/10 the shock of a defensive taser. The electrical charge reacts with the poison atoms and breaks them down. He has a whole notebook on the process of it. Very interesting. Just thought it may be handy to know. He has had patients that got bit and he treated them with this shock treatment for a week. he check backed with them in 2 weeks, their pain was gone and the bite healed up. no doctors visit needed. NO he does not sell them anymore so I'm not trying to advertise for him. just thought it may be handy to know. Im not sure if it works on other creepy crawler bites.not a good idea, any more than leaches or the Magik Mystery water for curing things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich Hale Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 There was a movement years back about using electric shock to speed the healing of snakebites. I do not know of any medical studies of this method but if I remember correctly there was a tv show that pretty much showed it had no benefits.. I would not take thoughts about shock therapy for any poisonous bites seriously unless they were backed up by controlled case studies. Yep more than a notebook!,,,lolAnd I have been bitten by brown recluse, Black widow and stung by bees, yellow jackets and scorpion. The recluse was the least painful. and it healed completely in about a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianinsa Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 I supose I should tell the wife "Should I get bitten by a boomslang, please Don 't taser me! no matter what you read somewhere! I would like my last hour or two to be shock free" :P .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted May 28, 2013 Share Posted May 28, 2013 What the hey, Ian a Boomslang bite is pretty painful isn't it? A little tasering falls into the might help, couldn't hurt . . . much category doesn't it? I hereby give anyone the directive to taser the snot out of me if a Boomslang bites me. I'm thinking it was last fall an Anchorage police officer checked on noises coming from his screened in front porch to find a black bear rifling through stuff looking for food. Seeing as his shotgun was in his cruiser and all he had with him was a pistol he tasered it. I loved his VERY cop-like verbal report to the news. "Upon tasering it, the bear immediately inverted with it's legs making weak running motions and mewled plaintively." If I get bit by a Boomslang or any other venomous S. African critter, I'll invert and start mewling till someone tasers me. Frosty The Lucky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredW Posted June 10, 2013 Share Posted June 10, 2013 This is all very good information. since the drout and heat of last yeare, I have seen a large increase in the number of brown recluse at my house. None in the shop so far but several in the garage and the house. My wife requested I light some candles last night, we have cats, and I happily grabbed a cinnamon scented candle, inside a jar, and lit the lighter stuck it in then a large brown recluse proceeded to run up my arm. Well i dropped the candle and ejected the critter immediatley. I tried to get pictures of it with my phone to show my wife and kids what they look like but never could get one that wasn't blurry. The thing was about and inch and a half in diameter, including legs. I hate those things. Gonna get the exterminator out here. Don't mind them in the garage but the house is off limits. That was the second one I've seen in the house this year. Had a friend put on a pair of jeans and got bit right on the right butt cheak. Left a very nice 2 inch hole that seemed to take forever to heal. So spiders got to go. I really don't mind most critters in the house as they will keep other pests in check. I will find the occasional black snake in the basement along with many different species of spiders but hate the brown recluse. The last two i've seen were out in the open so there is no telling how many are lurking in the closets and dark corners. May have to move up to Alaska just to get away from the spiders. Been a while since i was there but loved it. Of course you give up one thing then have to worry bout others. I thought well at least you can see the bear coming but then again most people that get attacked by bears was because they didn't seem them. Okay nevermind. Fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weltall Posted June 12, 2013 Share Posted June 12, 2013 On 6/29/2012 at 6:34 PM, ThomasPowers said: Well we get *big* spiders as tarantulas live out here in New Mexico---creepy to see them crossing the road at that time of year when they are looking for a mate; but really harmless. If you want envenomed beasties Australia is the place to go! Hey, I love tarantulas personally. And vigaroons. Its the xxxxxxx centipedes I HATE. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dabbsterinn Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 after reading through this, I've never been happier to live in Iceland, only annoying insects we have here are gnats and hen fleas i think from starlings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohio_82 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 I love ohio. We have a few brown recluse spiders. Mostly wolf spiders though. They are big hairy suckers. My mother-in-law had one on a glue trap that was pushing 2". Have seen a few garden spiders that were pretty impressive to.No venomous snakes to speak of. Have some black snakes that can be pretty aggressive if you mess with them. Yes i love Northwest ohio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yahoo2 Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 I like spiders.This is a giant Golden orb close to my front door. Not quite fully grown but the leg span is still bigger than a baseball cap. Not poisonous, prefers to suffocate sleeping victims with a large fluffy pillow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoggy Posted October 3, 2015 Share Posted October 3, 2015 As a newcomer you'll excuse me resurecting and older post I hope, I have a little bad news for the member from the Devon area, we do have scorpions! They are a recent immigrant to the southerly shores and are getting a foot hold. Also we do have spiders that bite, it's those tiny little things you find blowing across the open fields on the summer breeze......not often but at certain times they get a tad aggressive. The result is the most miniscule pinpricks you can barely see on your skin.....but by Thors hammer you know you've been bitten!However the worst insect by far in the UK is the common all garden..........Politician! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianinsa Posted October 4, 2015 Share Posted October 4, 2015 Even cannibals don't like politicians, too difficult to clean! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JHCC Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 I love ohio. We have a few brown recluse spiders. Mostly wolf spiders though. They are big hairy suckers. My mother-in-law had one on a glue trap that was pushing 2". Have seen a few garden spiders that were pretty impressive to.No venomous snakes to speak of. Have some black snakes that can be pretty aggressive if you mess with them. Yes i love Northwest ohio.Lots of funnel weaver spiders, which are NOT the same as the Australian funnel web spiders. Lots of nonvenomous snakes. Yeah, gotta love Ohio.And then the inch-and-a-half long horseflies come out.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 Well I was finally mounting a postvise to one of the end telephone poles holding up the carport at my rental house down here Saturday evening---had to do a full day at the factory in MX first so it was getting towards dusk. I finished lagging the mount to the pole and turned to gather up my tools and head inside when at the base of the middle pole was the largest rattlesnake I have seen at my place, (been here 5 months; 4 rattlesnakes) He was not happy with me, I was not happy with him; but he headed for the brush before I could get to an implement suitable for retroactively punching his birth certificate as null and void... Now I have to take care getting into my pickup; check before opening the doors of the house and be real cautious in my tool shed and scrap pile. On the other hand I'm less likely to contract bubonic plague as it deals with the rodent population. Saw a dead 10 button one on the main road on Sunday---I checked to see if I could get the rattle for my grandkids but it had been run over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natenaaron Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 This came tumbling out of a welding glove. After this I shake everything fabric before I pick it up or stick my hand or foot in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGGUNDOCTOR Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Nate, that is a giant hairy scorpion, they are the largest in North America and can get up to 6" long. I have had a couple of pregnant females come into the house over the years. I had a small one in the house the other night that I escorted out to the great outdoors. I don't mind them, as they eat the bugs like cockroaches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasPowers Posted October 13, 2015 Share Posted October 13, 2015 Need to add that to my "no gloves smith" spiel. Getting a good sized tupperware container and cutting the center of the lid out and getting some nylon screen material can make a glove storage where they can air out but not arachnid up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer Posted October 18, 2015 Share Posted October 18, 2015 Found (and killed) this in my yard the other day. I don't have anything against snakes mind you. I see them in the woods I leave them be. I also don't mind the none poisonous variety (Rat snakes, black racers, hog nose and the like) if they come into my yard. But, I draw the line at Cotton Mouths, Rattlers and Copperheads in the yard. My grandson and my dogs mean to much to me. Unfortunately, this has been the worst year by far for them. I've had to kill 7 this year alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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