Old white men quail (not Dan)

[Crackpot]

You guys don’t have the Brown Recluse? Not usually fatal but generally known to be one of those he more painful. Though I don’t know if that is because they tend to bite you in a sensitive area. Check under the seat before using an outhouse in Michigan.

[wesw]

yes, we d0 have brwn recluses.

they have derm0t0xins

a big black h0le in s0me0nes arm is nt a pretty site.

I have seen hundreds f black wid0ws and even had 0ne crawl 0ver my hand.

I have mved 0ld plyw00d laying 0n the gr0und and have seen a hundred in 0ne day

my sister g0t bit by a black wid0w when she was a t0ddler and alm0st died

my mm g0t bit by a spider 0n her f0rehead and had a small sp0t 0f skin die and leave a h0le, it was assumed t0 be a baby br0wn recluse

I have been bitten 0n the knee by s0me kind 0f spider when tearing 0ff a r00f and was unable t0 walk f0r tw days

I crawled under h0uses f0r a living, in my y0uth and spiders were everywhere, a fell0w w0rker was the 0ne bitten by the br0wn recluse

s0 I have a healthy respect and the pr0per am0unt 0f fear.

many spiders can hurt y0u and make y0u ill.

my shed is full f black widws



s0 yeah, y0u aren t t00 bright

[wesw]

I generally d0 leave the garden spider webs in my garden, unless they are really in my way.

the 0ne that built her web 0n my back st00p had t0 g0 th0

I didn t kill her, but I had t0 destr0y her web like 5 times bef0re she g0t the hint....

they regularly spin new webs

[BoSoxGal]

Brown recluse are native to southern and western states, not the mid Atlantic region (or Michigan).

Brown recluse spiders are not native to Maryland, but on very rare instances they can stow away on packages from the Midwest and the Southwest where the Brown recluses are more common. Only 10% of Brown recluse bites develop into tissue necrosis (cell death) around the bite area.

According to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, there are only two species of venomous spiders found in Michigan: the brown recluse and the black widow. The brown recluse is not indigenous to Michigan and cannot live in temperatures colder than 40°F, so they are extremely rare in the state.

But y’all keep on mansplaining how stupid I am.

[wesw]

that is wr0ng

[BoSoxGal]

Like I’m going to listen to an intellectual midget like you over the naturalists and entomologists with PhDs who study these things for a living?

Fuck yeah, no.

[wesw]

g00gle br0wn recluse Delaware

d0n t depend 0n Wikipedia unless y0u aren t t00 bright

[wesw]

I assume n0w that y0u have g00gled it, y0u will aplgize and admit that y0u are wr0ng....

[BoSoxGal]

You are too dumb, apparently, to understand the difference between scientifically proven and anecdotal - and yeah, I’m sure there are plenty of articles especially attached to exterminator websites claiming there are brown recluses all over Delaware - I’ve got a bridge you can buy, too.

Beneficial spiders
Delaware spiders more friend than foe, UD experts say
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9:34 a.m., Oct. 26, 2011--A big, furry, fake spider, dangling over a doorway or front porch, should produce a few screams from unsuspecting trick-or-treaters -- before they dissolve in giggles when they discover that this particular arachnid is made of plastic.

As for real spiders, people don’t have much to fear, especially here in Delaware, according to Brian Kunkel, an entomologist with University of Delaware Cooperative Extension.

Most large, hairy, and scary-looking spiders, such as the wolf spider, will hurt a fly but they won’t hurt you.

“Delaware’s native spiders are more friend than foe," says Kunkel. “Only one poisonous spider is found in Delaware, the black widow. Of course, for those who are allergic, any spider bite can be a problem."

Spiders are considered beneficial because they keep insect populations in check. Insects and spiders are both classified as arthropods but insects have three body parts and six legs, while spiders have two body parts and eight legs. In addition, spiders have two hand-like appendages called pedipals that they use to hold food. The pedipals contain sensory organs that allow spiders to taste their food. These sensory organs also are found on the spider’s legs.

The majority of spiders have eight eyes but despite all those eyes most spiders have bad vision, says Kunkel. An exception is the jumping spider, which relies on its keen eyesight to locate its next meal. After spotting its prey, this spider takes a flying leap and, if successful, lands right on top of it. The wolf spider also captures its prey by hunting and chasing it down, though it’s more a sprinter than a jumper.

Another group of spiders captures its prey by using the ambush method – they just hang out, motionless, until a tasty little insect comes along into easy grasping range.

Constructing a web is the most common method that spiders use to capture prey. Web spinners in Delaware include the orb weaver, comb-footed, sheet web and funnel web spiders.

When it comes to dining habits, spiders are generalists, meaning they’re a lot like the guy at the smorgasbord sampling one of everything. In contrast, the monarch butterfly caterpillar is a specialist because it eats milkweed and only milkweed. If you want to attract spiders to your yard – so they’ll gobble up all the bad bugs – plant a variety of plants and plant types, says Kunkel. Use as little pesticide as possible; it can kill spiders as well as the pest insects.

“Spiders are a sign of a healthy garden,” says Kunkel. “They are often the most important biological control of pests in the home landscape as well as on cropland. In addition, spiders are a good source of food for birds and small mammals, particularly in winter and spring.”

Doug Tallamy, chair of UD’s Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, can personally attest to the role of spiders in controlling pests. The first summer he lived in his house it was overrun with flies, thanks in part to a nearby horse barn.

Then Tallamy and his wife began transforming their barren yard. “When we moved in, the yard supported little more than mustard grass and ragweed,” he says.

After he planted a wide variety of native trees and plants, the wildlife came – everything from bluebirds to spiders.

“One predator, in particular, that I saw pouncing on the flies is a species of jumping spider,” says Tallamy. “These small but powerful spiders learned that our windows are great hunting grounds for flies.”

Because our trees and shrubs have grown since that first summer, the jumping spider now has plenty of places to hide and lay its eggs. And our native plantings provide an alternative food source, as well.”

So go ahead and scare someone with a fake spider this Halloween – just don’t scare off the real, beneficial spiders in your yard and garden.

[wesw]

y0u are dumb r dish0nest

pr0bably b0th

[BoSoxGal]

Jesus, what a perfect fucking example of a dumb mug who believes any shit he reads on the internet and any feces that falls from Trump’s anus.

[wesw]

nevermind

y0u are as thick as a brick

except y0u ll never get laid....

[Crackpot]

My dear god you have no idea of the pain I am enduring from my eyes rolling so hard.

[wesw]

[BoSoxGal]

nevermind

y0u are as thick as a brick

except y0u ll never get laid....

Finally, having been shown to be totally full of shit and clueless, he resorts to the ultimate insult a micropenised mental midget man can summon - that a woman won’t get the pleasure of his (or any of his ilk’s) lame attempts at fucking.

As if this pathetic excuse for manhood has even the remotest concept of how real men make love to women.

[wesw]

...said the l0nely 0ld spinster....

[Crackpot]

Right about now I think a post from DJT would somehow be more mature than this shitshow.

[BoSoxGal]

Just more misogyny, wesw. I’m not lonely. I’m not old. I don’t even acknowledge such an antiquated and stupid concept as ‘spinster’. I’ve had plenty of fantastic sex with interesting, intelligent gorgeous men in my life. I also had plenty of boring sex with dullards back when I was too nice to say no. I’ve had multiple marriage proposals and just wasn’t interested. At this point in life, spending as much time as I do listening to women friends and family members (and reading from strangers online in the menopause groups) complain about the man children they are still ‘parenting’ decades into a marriage, and who whine like babies if they don’t get enough sex yet won’t behave like decent friends to their spouses most of the time, I have not one iota of envy for the married life.

Please: I am not asking for all you marrieds here to jump in and tell me how wonderful your marriages are and how happy you are - I wouldn’t believe it anyway, I know the stats and the methodology for how this oft-studied institution has been tracked and I have confidence in the many times over proven assertion that only a small minority of marriages are the kind of happy that I’d want to have if I was going to give so much of my autonomy to a 24/7 partnership.

I am more than happy to be solidly in the 10% of women throughout history who have eschewed the ‘blessings’ of marriage. Pointing out my singledom is no insult to me whatsoever, wesw.

Next up I think is where you attack my looks/weight, or maybe accuse me of not being heteronormative - as though that’s an insult of some kind. Please do keep on proving what a sickening misogynist stereotype you are.

[wesw]

h0w s that law degree w0rking 0ut f0r y0u, genius?

I ll let y0u g0 n0w...

yer just a tiddler...

just remember wh0 started it.

and BSG...., spiders ARE scary

let it g0 at that, as y0u c0uld have bef0re.

[BoSoxGal]

My law degree worked out just fine thanks - I chose to leave the practice of law just like many others do, just like doctors choose to quit practicing medicine and any number of other professionals choose to change careers.

And just as I previously posted, of the 43,000 known species of spiders on the planet only a tiny fraction are dangerous and an even tinier fraction have caused human death. And only ONE dangerous species lives where you do, and it’s not the brown recluse.

One of the most pleasurable aspects of being single is never having to stroke a man baby’s pathetic ego by telling him he’s right when he is, in fact, moronically wrong.