They are actually very shy. They run for cover pretty quick - even rolling up into a ball - at least the neonates do. The big girls get a squirt of the industrial strength chemical warfare we make. Toes up in <30 secs!

Damn this thread! Now I have to start paying attention to the spiders I kill. We have a freakish amount in the rented townhome we live in, I saw more in a month here than I did the entire time we lived in our house in Great Bend. I can't wait to buy another house in the fall, at least I can attempt to spray, etc, without wasting my time on a rental.

I kill 40 or 50 black widows every year. Mostly in the barn and in the pines. The previous post is correct, they are not a brave spider. They will run and hide, EXCEPT when she has her egg sack. They are one of the most protective of all creatures when it comes to her babies. And they do jump, just not very far, maybe 6 inches max.

I was bitten by one a few years ago,,,,nothing happened. My bug man said they dont always inject venom when they bite. I say she couldn't focus on the bite area because I was shaking so terribly from fear!!!!

black widows dont freak me out anymore. maybe if they jumped...


but what freaks me out is finding a wasp nest.....aaaackkkshiver!

Ahhhh the posts are flying. Looks like Vash finally showed up to work. Glad to hear BW's don't freak you out, because we will be working in that same barn for many hours. Right, Cliff??

yup, i just hit blackwidows with my $65 hammer.

haaa, time for a coffee break.

I laugh in wasps general direction!

Brake and carb cleaners are also excellent against wasps and mud daubbers. Saturate the nests and the future generation won't be around either.

Wasp stings and Bee stings hurt so much more than a spider bite, but I guess it is the thought of something actually sinking it's teeth into you as opposed to stabing you with a needle poking out of it's butt that just wigs my ***** out...

i think the fact that i can outrun a blackwidow easily that makes me so brave. running from a piSS#d off hoard of wasp, would make me scream like a girl.

when i bought my house, it had one of those cheapo, steel sheds in the backyard. idiot PO built it on top of regular pine wood. so it was rotted and totally creepy and full of blackwidows. i went in, and looked up. there were about 10 active wasp nest in there. holycrap, i sprinted out of there like i was being chased by sasquatch. i bought that long distance spray wasp killer and went to town. then lobed a few of those can smokers like i was SWAT. then demo-d the entire structure. still gives me shivers.

Vash, we just launched a product that you would love. The guys in R&D filled some paint balls with some super industrial insecticide that drops stuff almost before they get hit by it. Anyway, they developed it and have sold it to utility companys for shooting wasp and bee nests at poles and so forth. I think it is a form of disguised chemical warfare.

The guns are high powered paint ball rifles. They send out a little plastic ball that splats at such an intensity it ctreates this fog of badassnasty that the bugs drop. It is funny as heck to see. I'm just waiting for the law suits to roll in when some $8/hr hardcore MF decides he wants a lil justice and goes on a chemical rampage shooting his boss and anyone else around.

BRILLIANT!!!

the consumer ever going to see this?

I just got this subliminal of a paunchy Chinese guy all dressed up in camo's, raiding my barn with a paint ball rifle, attempting to eradicate itty bitty black widows, and probably strafing the Porsche until it looks like a banana splits clone. WOW!

oh-oh. right before we work on your car, we are having a shooting contest. any gun ranges, in your 'hood?

Gun range? What's that?

Not sure, but I hope not. In the wrong hands the thing is a headline waiting to happen. It is a great example of R&D wanting to come up with something that was their brainchild and not thinking it through or even talking to the customer to find out if in fact it was something they really wanted/needed.

Thank God we do oils and greases according to preventing failures and designing to OEM requirements.

What about a HORNET's nest? Now those things will scare you! They're huge and make a wasp look like a lil ladybug.

Had a meat bee nest in the ground right next to the spa. Put the trap up with ground beef and must have killed over 200 of the little buggers. I think I would take one Hornets nest against a nest this size, but I could be mistaken. Them thar Honets is mean!

Need some of that...

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that's 3 years too long