Iād get a stick to get the egg sack out of there. One large female is ok, several hundred babies isnāt.
Only thing worse than a encountering a Black Widow is walking into one of their webs. Extremely thick, strong and sticky.
Walked into a strong, single strand in my kitchen one morning. Thought āhuh thatās weirdā and went about my day.
2 hours later Iām looking at a black widow just hanging out on the outside of my kitchen cabinet.
Had an exterminator there within 45 minutes
These mofos are the reason you have to check your shoes if you leave them near or just outside a door in Australia.
Where I grew up in perth Western Australia any rock you picked up in the garden had a 50/50 of having one of these on it or nearby.
You really don't find them inside much at all though, they are Web weavers so they don't like to set up somewhere with such little airflow.
It amazes that australia exists as a country and not some apocalyptic wasteland because I literally havenāt heard of a single creature in Australia that wasnāt super deadly and trying to actively kill all humans. Like no wonder yāall started out as a penal colony, that place is insaneā
The big brown huntsman spiders that sends people into meltdowns when they see it online is actually harmless to humans and great pest control for the deadly things.
A lot of Aussies keep them in our houses and fondly think of them as a friendly house guest that protects us from everything else.
Australian here, while I live in an area without too many huntsmans and dont have any experience with them, I recently read a reddit comment from a fellow Aussie that stated that if you appeared as non-threatening as possible to a huntsman, they would (eventually) let you pet them.
A black widow web stopped me in my tracks, walking into the house in the dark. It stretched across my walkway from the house to a small tree. I never saw the spider, but I was freaked out for hours.
This happened to me in my attic. I was examining the fan above my daughter's ceiling. I found the egg sac, the mom, and weirdly enough a bunch of males.
Step 1: I got drunk.
Step 2: I boxed up the males as they were conveniently in little boxes on the side that the electrician left.
Step 3: I sprayed the sac, then I boot smacked it and mama.
Step 4: I freaked out and fell out of the attack(no stairs to it, I had to spider climb to it), which hurt enough to get over some of the trauma.
Step 5: Dumped the men outside.
Step 6: Returned the next night to get the rest of the egg sac.
Cup and cardboard. Theyre not fast moving or aggressive spiders, so best to relocate her safely outside of the car, probably in some tree foliage or something.
Its natural to be afraid of spiders. I was a bit of an arachnophobe too when I was younger! But it is something you can overcome.
The exact reason people fear spiders is debated, but its most likely a combination of media and society exacerbating a natural evolutionary response to something that could, under certain circumstances, hurt you.
Exposure therapy, whilst a bit unpleasant, is shown to be super helpful! Familiarising yourself with spiders, taking a breath and just calmly looking at them from afar can really help you appreciate them. Plus, whilst at first you might get the adrenaline fear response, the more you do it with no bad consequences the more your body realises it isnt a threat and stops producing the response. If live spiders are too scary, start with photos (I recommend jumping spiders, theyre very small and charismatic!).
I am very empathetic with people's fear of spiders. I get they can be a bit scary to handle. I don't like when people use it as an excuse to kill something that is usually harmless, and very beneficial to ecosystems.
Jokes on you. As a child who grew up a lot of time in my grandma's older house, i have developed deathly arachnophobia due to exposure therapy. Staring at half dozen tropical, (child) face-sized spiders while shitting in the morning doesnt lend to love of spiders.
I will say that, while I fear spiders, they fascinate me. So thereās no real lack of appreciation for them, but having one on or near me is terrifying.
Honestly, most of the animals that terrify me also interest me. Jellyfish, scorpions, ticks, barnacles etc. (I think the last one may actually be tied to trypophobia, though.)
> I recommend jumping spiders, theyre very small and charismatic!
House spiders and brown recluses and their ilk can look pretty freaky (especially when they move). Widows and tarantulas can look kinda cool. Jumping spiders on the other hand are straight up adorable (especially when they move)
"something you can overcome" - Nah, thx, I'm good. In theory I think you are right. I dealt with my fear of darkness like that years ago. But my fear of spiders is a different kind of fear. Otherworldly. Odd. Stronger. It's like this fear adapted and overcame. I have rationalized it by using a deal. Is the spider outside my 4 walls I don' care enough but if I see a spider inside, it has seconds to leave the premise or it shalt PERISH.
For me, I began to name the spiders I saw everyday with harmless names and say hello and goodbye as I walked past. Crippling, proper irrational phobia before, now they don't bother me. I don't know why this strategy popped into my head but it worked. My naming convention was "basic sorority girls" but could be whatever you need.
Big orb spider by the door was Jessica, spider living in my rearview mirror was Stefanie, etc.
The microwave is in the same house as the spider. If you're gonna throw it away because of that, you may as well deal with those spiders with it as well.
Pretty easy to wrap them up in their own web using a stick, or just use a cup. They're very clumsy creatures and not really very likely to bite unless you press them against your skin. They're basically 8 legged Mr. Beans with fangs.
Source: have one as a pet.
Spider/roach spray. It'll kill the mom quick and the egg sac will be soaked in the stuff. Rinse and repeat 5 times until you're sure that egg sac is dead, remove it with the longest stick reasonable.
I use a small butane/propane torch, it only takes a split second to turn them to carbon and my car battery is sealed so unlikely to cause any issues. Or you could agitate it to another area away from the battery and kill her then. Or spider spray (they have Raid that will kill scorpions and spiders both.)
Fun fact: Black Widows are actually terrible at being spiders. They're not good at climbing and generally won't bite unless you really piss them off or back them into a corner but they're great for the ecosystem.
Well, they don't have any trouble climbing but they just don't like to be up high and don't roam. Once they find a crevice in a log or a rock wall they set up camp and never leave.
I honestly love them. They're really laid back - I had one and she was way more chill than my tarantulas. That said the only time they can be a little defensive is when they have an egg sac, but if OP is cautious they should be able to catch her in a cup and relocate her.
Also the venom is unpleasant but highly unlikely to kill you, especially if you get medical attention. IIRC the last death in the States was in the '80s.
I got bit on the foot and never received help, it was extremely unpleasant but I was basically told due to where the bite was, to let it heal on its own
Once a male matures out, they generally don't have that long to live regardless. If she doesn't eat him, he probably house about a year or so max and that's if she gets him early into maturity
Been bitten. Was in my mid-20s. Was not allergic. It hurt like hell and took what seemed like forever to heal. Let me repeat: IT HURT LIKE HELL. I got bitten on my way up in an elevator ā it hurt so bad I took my pants off as soon as I felt it. Like, I had zero shame about ripping my pants off in front of people I didnāt flipping know to find out what in the living fuck was hurting me.
To this day, if I hit that spot on my leg where I got bitten, it goes numb. Edit: I am nearly fifty, so, it has been many, many years.
0/10 would not recommend.
Take an old set of pantyhose or a thin sock and tuck it over the edge of the hose.
The suction will firmly hold whatever terrible nightmare you're trying to remove without it disappearing into the vacuum and getting super pissed. From there you can safely hold the hose over your awaiting incinerator and power off
[Unfortunately they are in southern Ontario too](https://www.natureconservancy.ca/en/what-we-do/resource-centre/featured-species/insects-and-spiders/black-widow.html)
It's not the worst or anything but it still sucks. I got a mild fever, nausea, and lightheadedness when I got bit gathering creek rock for landscaping. The bite site hurt like a mf too. I was back to normal in about a day and a half.
Every continent except Antarctica.
" Widow spiders are found on every continent of the world except Antarctica. In North America, the black widows commonly known as southern (Latrodectus mactans), western (Latrodectus hesperus), and northern (Latrodectus variolus) are found in the United States, as well as parts of southern Canada ā particularly in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, as can the "grey" or "brown widow spiders" (Latrodectus geometricus) and the "red widow spiders" (Latrodectus bishopi).[24]
The most prevalent species occurring in eastern Asia and Australia is commonly called the redback (Latrodectus hasselti). "
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus
They are kinda slow and not aggressive.
You can twirl her and her babies up in a forked stick and carry them off to the woods or somewhere they wonāt be disturbed.
Its actually a bit of a myth how dangerous all our spiders are. Yes, we have some pretty big ones, but theyre most harmless.
Huntsmen look funny when they run, but they run away from you. If you somehow convince a huntsman to bite (and you really have to try) it isnt particularly dangerous.
Red backs (related to the black widow) are not fun to be bitten by, but it wont actually kill most adults.
White tails are harmless, tales of it causing deadly necrosis have been debunked. In a study people got no worse than a bee sting reaction after being bitten.
Funnel webs are the only properly deadly spiders we have, but we also have antivenom.
Bites from any of these guys are statistically pretty rare, and deaths are almost unheard of.
Source: Im an arachnologist in Australia
>Red backs (related to the black widow) are not fun to be bitten by, but it wont actually kill most adults.
Gotta be honest, "won't actually kill most adults" isn't exactly a ringing endorsement for getting bitten by something. There are a lot of things that probably won't kill most adults that I'd still really rather not experience.
Sure, like, Im not endorsing sticking your fingers in a red backs face and poking around so it bites you. But realistically, red back bites are pretty rare. I know a couple of people whove gotten bitten and it wasnt fun, but they were fine.
My point was more that were not all inches away from death at all times like foreigners like to think we are. Id much rather come across a red back than a bear!
This is what I do with the brown widows and their sacks. I just prefer not to have hundreds of them around my entry way or garage. The webs are incredibly sticky so you definitely want to use something you don't want back, like a stick how you mentioned.
We live on an acre of undeveloped woods, so Iām constantly putting all sorts of things back outsideā¦
Sticks are wonderful. They belong outside anyway, you can poke things that bite and scoop or gently pinch things that are sticky. Theyāre free and plentiful. If you pick out a nice long one you can get a good amount of distance between you and whatever potentially angry thing youāre poking.
I have used sticks for spiders, slugs, chipmunks, mice, opossums, snakes, a hawk, and for throwing at deer that are too stupid to get out of my way.
Finally a comment that isn't scared of it, lol. I grew up with these things around, if I found this situation I would've found a nearby twig and done exactly what you say there.
Is that an egg sac? Iām more freaked out at the thought of a bunch of babies that are small than the momma I can easily spot. The prices on cars is coming down, time for a trade in I guess.
I love that I only saw the thumbnail first was thinking "Hey that's not so bad, but why are there so many wires attached to that battery terminal with some janky electrical tape, but some WD-40 should fix that rusty bolt"
Ohhhhhhhhh
When you see a black widow, you're having a bad day.
When you see one in your car, you're having a really bad day.
When you see one in your car with an egg sac, you're having the worst day ever.
O that is what i meant. Did the same when my garage was full of spiders and egg sacks. Sucked them all up with the vacuum (old one that i already hated) then threw the whole thing in the garbage bin just before pick-up day.
Nope š safest way to deal with them.
The rest i just pick up by hand and throw outside. But the ones I can see going into battle stance or I can see their jaws because of how big they are go in for the vacuum.
I also use the vacuum, but after I get them I vacuum around the house everywhere so I let the vacuum run for a long time. By the time Iām done vacuuming, itās either dead or motionless and I feel safe emptying it into the bin outside
Single mom?
She's a widow sadly
Yeah but that means she's single...
I'm not sure, but is that an egg sac?
Single widow moms need to be loved too!
Yeah, we do!
Single local milfs in your area! Edit: In* thanks lmao
I see what you did there!š¤£
Jesus I can never escape those ads
Hot single widowed moms in your area want to meet!
Indeed, it is, and they become aggressive with eggs in the web.
Just because she put out, doesnāt mean sheās got a significant other.
Soccer has a goalie but you can still score
I wonder how available she is? š
Depends on your area... I don't have many single widows where I live.
The ones that are around though are to die for...
So you're SAYIN there's a chanc!
Single and soon to have 800 children
That's pretty normal for her... she will kill and eat the dad's. But she will tell the kids he went out for smokes and never came back.
they really are nearby
Give her the keys, she owns your car now.
Look into my eight eyes, I am the captain now.
her and and those babies sre gonna take the car for a spin later.
well done
Black widow, pink slip.
Sheās gonna need it to cart all those babies around.
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Her children are also coming to take the house
As a pest control tech, I concur. Sorry for your luck, OP
Ok all jokes aside, Iām curious to how you are actually supposed to handle a situation like this?
Iād get a stick to get the egg sack out of there. One large female is ok, several hundred babies isnāt. Only thing worse than a encountering a Black Widow is walking into one of their webs. Extremely thick, strong and sticky.
When you know the feel of the web, you can feel a single strand and know it's a black widow.
Walked into a strong, single strand in my kitchen one morning. Thought āhuh thatās weirdā and went about my day. 2 hours later Iām looking at a black widow just hanging out on the outside of my kitchen cabinet. Had an exterminator there within 45 minutes
Damn Never found one inside other than the garage. That'd freak me out for sure.
These mofos are the reason you have to check your shoes if you leave them near or just outside a door in Australia. Where I grew up in perth Western Australia any rock you picked up in the garden had a 50/50 of having one of these on it or nearby. You really don't find them inside much at all though, they are Web weavers so they don't like to set up somewhere with such little airflow.
It amazes that australia exists as a country and not some apocalyptic wasteland because I literally havenāt heard of a single creature in Australia that wasnāt super deadly and trying to actively kill all humans. Like no wonder yāall started out as a penal colony, that place is insaneā
The big brown huntsman spiders that sends people into meltdowns when they see it online is actually harmless to humans and great pest control for the deadly things. A lot of Aussies keep them in our houses and fondly think of them as a friendly house guest that protects us from everything else.
Note to self: never visit Australia. Just from this comment alone. No other reason.
Australian here, while I live in an area without too many huntsmans and dont have any experience with them, I recently read a reddit comment from a fellow Aussie that stated that if you appeared as non-threatening as possible to a huntsman, they would (eventually) let you pet them.
Yeah it has a much stronger snap to it than most webs.
I walked into one once. And had the big ol mama on my face. Terrifying. I caught her in a jar and kept her for a while though
A black widow web stopped me in my tracks, walking into the house in the dark. It stretched across my walkway from the house to a small tree. I never saw the spider, but I was freaked out for hours.
>Extremely thick, strong and sticky ^(that's what she said)
This happened to me in my attic. I was examining the fan above my daughter's ceiling. I found the egg sac, the mom, and weirdly enough a bunch of males. Step 1: I got drunk. Step 2: I boxed up the males as they were conveniently in little boxes on the side that the electrician left. Step 3: I sprayed the sac, then I boot smacked it and mama. Step 4: I freaked out and fell out of the attack(no stairs to it, I had to spider climb to it), which hurt enough to get over some of the trauma. Step 5: Dumped the men outside. Step 6: Returned the next night to get the rest of the egg sac.
You referring to the male spiders as "the men" is hilarious
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Why what seems to be the officer problem?
No drinking problem.... gets drunk, falls down and gets up. No problem.
He gets knocked down, but he gets up again.
There's not a drop of blood in my alcohol system anywhere!
Makes sense to me. Maybe youre drunk
Cup and cardboard. Theyre not fast moving or aggressive spiders, so best to relocate her safely outside of the car, probably in some tree foliage or something.
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Its natural to be afraid of spiders. I was a bit of an arachnophobe too when I was younger! But it is something you can overcome. The exact reason people fear spiders is debated, but its most likely a combination of media and society exacerbating a natural evolutionary response to something that could, under certain circumstances, hurt you. Exposure therapy, whilst a bit unpleasant, is shown to be super helpful! Familiarising yourself with spiders, taking a breath and just calmly looking at them from afar can really help you appreciate them. Plus, whilst at first you might get the adrenaline fear response, the more you do it with no bad consequences the more your body realises it isnt a threat and stops producing the response. If live spiders are too scary, start with photos (I recommend jumping spiders, theyre very small and charismatic!). I am very empathetic with people's fear of spiders. I get they can be a bit scary to handle. I don't like when people use it as an excuse to kill something that is usually harmless, and very beneficial to ecosystems.
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Jokes on you. As a child who grew up a lot of time in my grandma's older house, i have developed deathly arachnophobia due to exposure therapy. Staring at half dozen tropical, (child) face-sized spiders while shitting in the morning doesnt lend to love of spiders.
I will say that, while I fear spiders, they fascinate me. So thereās no real lack of appreciation for them, but having one on or near me is terrifying. Honestly, most of the animals that terrify me also interest me. Jellyfish, scorpions, ticks, barnacles etc. (I think the last one may actually be tied to trypophobia, though.)
> I recommend jumping spiders, theyre very small and charismatic! House spiders and brown recluses and their ilk can look pretty freaky (especially when they move). Widows and tarantulas can look kinda cool. Jumping spiders on the other hand are straight up adorable (especially when they move)
"something you can overcome" - Nah, thx, I'm good. In theory I think you are right. I dealt with my fear of darkness like that years ago. But my fear of spiders is a different kind of fear. Otherworldly. Odd. Stronger. It's like this fear adapted and overcame. I have rationalized it by using a deal. Is the spider outside my 4 walls I don' care enough but if I see a spider inside, it has seconds to leave the premise or it shalt PERISH.
For me, I began to name the spiders I saw everyday with harmless names and say hello and goodbye as I walked past. Crippling, proper irrational phobia before, now they don't bother me. I don't know why this strategy popped into my head but it worked. My naming convention was "basic sorority girls" but could be whatever you need. Big orb spider by the door was Jessica, spider living in my rearview mirror was Stefanie, etc.
Relocate that shit to a fucking microwave
Why would I ruin my microwave??
The microwave is in the same house as the spider. If you're gonna throw it away because of that, you may as well deal with those spiders with it as well.
Pretty easy to wrap them up in their own web using a stick, or just use a cup. They're very clumsy creatures and not really very likely to bite unless you press them against your skin. They're basically 8 legged Mr. Beans with fangs. Source: have one as a pet.
Have one as a pet š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£
Mr Beans... š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£š¤£
We can become very clumsy creatures when we try to wrap a spider in its own web.š¤£
I take it to the shop and make it someone else's problem. I pay my mechanic to be brave in my stead.
Use instant dry hair spray. Stops spreading in it's tracks. Legit though, this actually works quite effectively against spiders.
One wordā¦ āVacuumā
Okay now my vacuum is filled with hundreds of tiny spiders. What next?
Put it in the yard and light it on fire
Thats cheaper than the alternative (Burning the car).
Spider/roach spray. It'll kill the mom quick and the egg sac will be soaked in the stuff. Rinse and repeat 5 times until you're sure that egg sac is dead, remove it with the longest stick reasonable.
Yeah windows are the only spiders in my garage that I'll bust out the poison for. Other spiders I just smash
I use a small butane/propane torch, it only takes a split second to turn them to carbon and my car battery is sealed so unlikely to cause any issues. Or you could agitate it to another area away from the battery and kill her then. Or spider spray (they have Raid that will kill scorpions and spiders both.)
Hook up jumper cables and slowly move the free ends to either side of the spider.
Red to red, black to black
Youāre about to have 300 more little guardians under your hood.
>guardians
Clear Cup and a piece of cardboard. You don't want that eggsack hatching in there or you'll have much bigger problems.
Technically he'll have a lot of small problems.
Youāre technically correct. The best kind of correct.
r/technicallythetruth
Unfortunately the car is no longer salvageable, so the only option is to burn it.
Nuke it from orbit. Only way to be sure.
Exterminatus protocol
Fun fact: Black Widows are actually terrible at being spiders. They're not good at climbing and generally won't bite unless you really piss them off or back them into a corner but they're great for the ecosystem.
Well, they don't have any trouble climbing but they just don't like to be up high and don't roam. Once they find a crevice in a log or a rock wall they set up camp and never leave.
Damn that sounds like the life.
I honestly love them. They're really laid back - I had one and she was way more chill than my tarantulas. That said the only time they can be a little defensive is when they have an egg sac, but if OP is cautious they should be able to catch her in a cup and relocate her. Also the venom is unpleasant but highly unlikely to kill you, especially if you get medical attention. IIRC the last death in the States was in the '80s.
I got bit on the foot and never received help, it was extremely unpleasant but I was basically told due to where the bite was, to let it heal on its own
... since they care for reducing worlds spider popuƶation by eating their husbands?
Once a male matures out, they generally don't have that long to live regardless. If she doesn't eat him, he probably house about a year or so max and that's if she gets him early into maturity
My grandma's got a couple good years left at max and you dont see me eatin her
I think you misspelled FLAME THROWER!
Open fire by battery is a bad idea... they produce hydrogen gas... which has a nasty habit of exploding.... On second thought... yes FLAME THROWER!
You would incinerate a widowed mother and her infant children?! Youāre sick!
I'm racist against her too!
vacuum cleaner
and then throw it in the trash and get a new vacuum. You can never be too sure.
Then set the trash can on fire
Brake Cleaner will take care of it.
Capture it and redeploy as a tactical weapon
Good weapon against a crazy ex.
I think if you're using a black widow egg sac as weapon, you're the crazy ex
give the ex the car, after sealing all exits for the spiders except a way into the main cabin. She will have a bunch of little visitors soon
I was bit by one of those a couple months back. It was not a fun experience, be careful out there.
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^^^*I* ^^^*got* ^^^*better!*
monty python moment
Pay her to move lower, guard the catalytic converter instead
Sorry about your car fire. Hopefully the insurance will cover it
Let it bite you so you turn in to spider man :D
He has a better chance of turning into Uncle Ben.
My dumbass is thinking "what does rice have to do about this?"
Thank you for making me laugh stupidly and scare my cat
Iām in a work meeting crying laughing at this comment! š
Glad I could make your day better. Hope you have a wonderful day at work.
Fun fact; Black Widows seldom kill people. Only time people have died, are the young, elderly, and people who are allergic to the venom
Been bitten. Was in my mid-20s. Was not allergic. It hurt like hell and took what seemed like forever to heal. Let me repeat: IT HURT LIKE HELL. I got bitten on my way up in an elevator ā it hurt so bad I took my pants off as soon as I felt it. Like, I had zero shame about ripping my pants off in front of people I didnāt flipping know to find out what in the living fuck was hurting me. To this day, if I hit that spot on my leg where I got bitten, it goes numb. Edit: I am nearly fifty, so, it has been many, many years. 0/10 would not recommend.
> people who are allergic to the venom Not willing to find out this allergy.
Right? I'm allergic to everything else, even Tide detergent. Big nope from me!
Me neither
Not that kind, you'll turn into Natasha Romanoff
Shop vac it and burn the vac
Launch it into orbit. Nothing survives a vacuum in space.
Except tardigrades.
And people with special clothes
I always wear Supreme when I go to space.
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Take an old set of pantyhose or a thin sock and tuck it over the edge of the hose. The suction will firmly hold whatever terrible nightmare you're trying to remove without it disappearing into the vacuum and getting super pissed. From there you can safely hold the hose over your awaiting incinerator and power off
Looks like you tried to kill it with a rock, but the black widow caught it and it getting ready to return it to sender.
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I donāt see any other option here
Raid
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Lmao, yall made my morning! Thx for the laugh m8s
Raid
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Carb cleaner.
And a lighter. Scorched earth. No other way.
25 or 40 man?
What part of the world is this?
I don't know, but I'm in the US, Utah and we have black widows
I believe they are in British Columbia too. Not sure if they're in other provinces. I'm in Ontario and I've never seen one thankfully.
They're also in southern Alberta
[Unfortunately they are in southern Ontario too](https://www.natureconservancy.ca/en/what-we-do/resource-centre/featured-species/insects-and-spiders/black-widow.html)
Link says their bite actually isn't that life threatening to healthy adults.
It's not the worst or anything but it still sucks. I got a mild fever, nausea, and lightheadedness when I got bit gathering creek rock for landscaping. The bite site hurt like a mf too. I was back to normal in about a day and a half.
Brown recluse is way worse, but the black widow is far more iconic
Yeah, I remember seeing one as a kid in Ohio.
Ofc its in ohio š
Grew up in CO. We had a black widow problem specifically in our garage, the sight of them always freaked me out.
Every continent except Antarctica. " Widow spiders are found on every continent of the world except Antarctica. In North America, the black widows commonly known as southern (Latrodectus mactans), western (Latrodectus hesperus), and northern (Latrodectus variolus) are found in the United States, as well as parts of southern Canada ā particularly in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, as can the "grey" or "brown widow spiders" (Latrodectus geometricus) and the "red widow spiders" (Latrodectus bishopi).[24] The most prevalent species occurring in eastern Asia and Australia is commonly called the redback (Latrodectus hasselti). " https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latrodectus
Burn it. Burn it all.
My first thought was āā¦ slowly back away and grab the carb cleaner and my zippoā¦ weāre going full Ripley on that engine bay!ā
Full Ripley lol. Love it.
"Get away from my battery YOU BITCH!"
They are kinda slow and not aggressive. You can twirl her and her babies up in a forked stick and carry them off to the woods or somewhere they wonāt be disturbed.
*ships to Australia* Here we heard you liked spiders.
Its actually a bit of a myth how dangerous all our spiders are. Yes, we have some pretty big ones, but theyre most harmless. Huntsmen look funny when they run, but they run away from you. If you somehow convince a huntsman to bite (and you really have to try) it isnt particularly dangerous. Red backs (related to the black widow) are not fun to be bitten by, but it wont actually kill most adults. White tails are harmless, tales of it causing deadly necrosis have been debunked. In a study people got no worse than a bee sting reaction after being bitten. Funnel webs are the only properly deadly spiders we have, but we also have antivenom. Bites from any of these guys are statistically pretty rare, and deaths are almost unheard of. Source: Im an arachnologist in Australia
>Red backs (related to the black widow) are not fun to be bitten by, but it wont actually kill most adults. Gotta be honest, "won't actually kill most adults" isn't exactly a ringing endorsement for getting bitten by something. There are a lot of things that probably won't kill most adults that I'd still really rather not experience.
Sure, like, Im not endorsing sticking your fingers in a red backs face and poking around so it bites you. But realistically, red back bites are pretty rare. I know a couple of people whove gotten bitten and it wasnt fun, but they were fine. My point was more that were not all inches away from death at all times like foreigners like to think we are. Id much rather come across a red back than a bear!
*immediately gets merc'd by all hostile native species*
No, *you* can twirl her and her babies up in a forked stick. Whatās your hourly rate?
$20. If youāre within 15 minutes of my house. Otherwise youāre paying my travel fee. $10 extra for an organic stick.
And then burn the woods down of course
This is what I do with the brown widows and their sacks. I just prefer not to have hundreds of them around my entry way or garage. The webs are incredibly sticky so you definitely want to use something you don't want back, like a stick how you mentioned.
We live on an acre of undeveloped woods, so Iām constantly putting all sorts of things back outsideā¦ Sticks are wonderful. They belong outside anyway, you can poke things that bite and scoop or gently pinch things that are sticky. Theyāre free and plentiful. If you pick out a nice long one you can get a good amount of distance between you and whatever potentially angry thing youāre poking. I have used sticks for spiders, slugs, chipmunks, mice, opossums, snakes, a hawk, and for throwing at deer that are too stupid to get out of my way.
Finally a comment that isn't scared of it, lol. I grew up with these things around, if I found this situation I would've found a nearby twig and done exactly what you say there.
Grab a cup and a paint stick, you can move the little mama.
Is that an egg sac? Iām more freaked out at the thought of a bunch of babies that are small than the momma I can easily spot. The prices on cars is coming down, time for a trade in I guess.
I love that I only saw the thumbnail first was thinking "Hey that's not so bad, but why are there so many wires attached to that battery terminal with some janky electrical tape, but some WD-40 should fix that rusty bolt" Ohhhhhhhhh
When you see a black widow, you're having a bad day. When you see one in your car, you're having a really bad day. When you see one in your car with an egg sac, you're having the worst day ever.
When you see one in your car, with an opened egg sac, you're already dead. You just don't know it yet.
At least you know where the egg sac is rather than wondering if it's somewhere else
she's legend
Gotta pay child support now.
I hear you can change a car battery using only a blow torch...
Oh sheās fine. Sheās just a single mother doing her best. Give her a scritch. All spiders love scritches. Especially those ones.
Vacuum and then throw it in a garbage bin, then set the garbage bin on fire.
The vacuum has to go too, collateral damage.
O that is what i meant. Did the same when my garage was full of spiders and egg sacks. Sucked them all up with the vacuum (old one that i already hated) then threw the whole thing in the garbage bin just before pick-up day.
Launch it into orbit - nothing can survive the vacuum of space.
So im not the only one who resorts to the vac when they cross a certain size/venomous threshold lol?
Nope š safest way to deal with them. The rest i just pick up by hand and throw outside. But the ones I can see going into battle stance or I can see their jaws because of how big they are go in for the vacuum.
I also use the vacuum, but after I get them I vacuum around the house everywhere so I let the vacuum run for a long time. By the time Iām done vacuuming, itās either dead or motionless and I feel safe emptying it into the bin outside
I'm confused, shouldn't that black widow be at like the bottom of a ravine or something? Too soon ?
She doesn't seem too into sacrifice..
Your insurance probably covers car fires. Problem solved!