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Black widows abound here in our part of NM. I'm nearly the dali lama and will rescue (or likely send back outdoors to become birdfood) all insects and the like, but there's that unmistakable "snap" and feel to a BW's web that puts me into full on search-and-destroy mode. I've never been bitten luckily!
Rattlers, too. With our last two decades of forest fires the microclimates have changed and we don't get the cold wet air coming down the mountain every night. I'm pretty certain the low temps are 5-10F more than they were pre-fire. And now our paradise of "too cold for rattlesnakes" is no longer too cold. Doggo got the bad end of one last year and that was a dramatic and multi-kilobuck tour through the vets. Bull snakes are welcome but the rattlesnakes will get a quick trip to the belt-store if I can manage. No phobia on my part, luckily, just pure hatred.
I guess we have tarantulas here, but like scorpions in AZ, I've never managed to spot one. That would be cool though...
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'78SC, lots of other boring cars...
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