Spiders

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Wolf Spiders have babies ranging from 100-300 at a time. From that figure only about half survive to adulthood. The babies are very small when they finally detach from the mother and might look like a black spot on the ground. Do not hesitate to kill them; they run very fast. Unlike the adults babies will roam during the day, but also come out at night. If you find wolf spiders in your home get your house fogged immediately, they do nest.

Hi there. I live in NW Florida, which was positively infested with these elegant spiders about 5 years ago. The largest one I have found to date was, legs included in the 'resting' position, as big around as a dinner plate. She was in the deeper parts of the woods behind our house, and after she merely twitched a leg at the spurt of Raid one of my hiking buddies sprayed on her we decided that we really didn't want to continue our nature walk, anyhow :) The females are known to form communal webs, and are very clever survivalists, as spiders go. We had one (affectionately called 'Borg Queen') who kept trying to string a web between the oak tree, the azalea bush and the side of the house. Every morning we would sweep the web off the house, and every evening when we came home Borgie would have reattached it. This cycle went on for about two weeks before she got the bright idea to climb the light pole, swing over to the tree, then DOWN to the azalea bush, leaving the house completely untouched. She and about 15 other females then proceeded to build their web around the streetlamp, and reap the benefits of the Prehistoric-Sized mosquitoes that Fl is famous for. Hope this helped!

All species of spiders are arachnids, and all arachnids belong to the taxonomic domain of Eukarya, members of which are characterised by having cells with nuclei. Eukarya covers all organisms in the Kingdom Animalia, as well as the Kingdoms Plantae, Fungi and Protista.

It sounds like you may have encountered a jumping spider. Jumping spiders are known for their small size and ability to leap short distances. Their distinctive markings can include white spots on a black body. They are harmless to humans and are considered beneficial because they help control insect populations.

The spider you are describing is likely the black widow spider. It is known for its shiny black body with a red hourglass-shaped marking on its abdomen. This spider is venomous and can be found in various parts of the world.

I've been bitten a few times, and am allergic.

The drs. Have shown me the identifing marks of a spider bite there are 3 fang piercings like a triangle. My symptoms of being allergic were my limb that had the bite. Example my hand.. It started to feel slightly numb, and slightly wanted to start to curl closed like a fisted hand.

The wolf spider can be find in many coastal and inland areas. They are usually situated in the shrub lands, woodlands, gardens, and forests. They can also live in pastures and fields where they can control insect populations. These creatures live on almost every continent but Greenland only has a few areas where it is inhabited and Antarctica cannot support it.

There is one kind of tiny red spider that makes sheet webs that it uses to catch small insects. Most people would never notice them.

There is another very small red creature that looks a little like a spider. But it has only one body part, i.e., it is not separated into two sections like spider, or three sections like insects. It is the mature form of that most favorite of summer lawn dwellers, the chigger. As adult chiggers they eat vegetable material.

spiders and butterflys both love the great outdoors!

It is extremely unlikely that the Daddy Long Leg would try and bite you. It can bite you though. Don't be worried if one does. It's ''poison'' is only strong enough to numb your finger for about 5 seconds.

Yes, technically a daddy or grand daddy long legs spider is venomous and could be dangerous especially to a baby. The spider has very small fangs that can puncture the skin but very rarely bites a human.

No. The wolf spider and the brown recluse spider are close cousins. They can mate with each other, and their babies, called hybrids, are very deadly. It's too bad they don't exist

The spiders that weave webs use silk to do this. They make the silk out of their own bodies and jump from tree branch to tree branch to make their web. Each kind of spider makes a different kind of web. Some of the strands in the web are sticky, to catch bugs, but some are dry. The spider walks on the dry strands so she doesn't get stuck. The spider usually waits in the center of the web, with one of her legs touching a strand. If she feels the strands jiggle, she goes to find the bug that is caught in the web. If it is just a leaf, or a really big bug that could tear up the web, the spider will cut the strands holding it, so it will fall out of the web. If she needs to rebuild a web, she will eat the broken web pieces and digest them. This helps her make more new silk. Nothing is wasted. (Spider webs are so strong that some native peoples twist the webs to make fishing nets. Others use the web for Band-aids.)

I'm not entirely sure of the true population of Black Widow Spiders however, all of the research I have done says that Widow spiders in general are all doing quite well. The term "Widow" spider refers to around 31 separate species, only three of which are located throughout the United States. The Southern Black Widow, the Northern Black Widow, and finally the Western Black Widow. I don't know about the Southern and Northern Widows, but the Western Black Widow is supposedly incredibly over populated. Many people "kill on sight". Going around just the area I live in I have come across more than 100 Black Widows, approximately a city block in area. I can only speculate that the Black Widow numbers in the trillions, (1,000,000,000,000+). If you are bitten by a Black Widow Spider, or suspect that you have been bitten by one, seek IMMEDIATE medical treatment. When seeking medical help, if at all possible bring the spider (or what is left of it), with you. This is of great benefit to the doctor and staff that are trying to help you. It is needed to help positively identify which spider it was that had injected the venom (different treatments are used for different bites). Symptoms can and do include: itching and discoloration (redness), swelling at injection site, and almost always severe muscle spasms, usually located heaviest in the legs or abdomen. The pain of the muscle spasms is said to be very similar to that of appendicitis or even that of child birth.

Believe it or not, you are never more than six feet away from a spider. The only flaw in this answer is "how far are you from a spider in the winter? answered simply by, spiders lay eggs underground and die. Only to come out in the spring and make more spiders.

Snakes have special organs called venom glands which are connected to venom ducts which carry the venom to their fangs so that when a snake bites the venom ducts quickly carry venom to their fangs.

This depends on your age, health and whether your are allergic to the venom. If you are not allergic, and are in good health, it can take up to 48hrs for the venom to kill you in normal conditions. They are actually not as dangerous as many think; the reason they are considered a dangerous spider is more the fact that they often live where humans do, and therefore people are often bitten.

The last death from a redback bite was in 1979, due to development of antivenom. There are 14 deaths ever recorded.

webbed feet!

Actually, the Banana spider is near-harmless. You must have it confused with the Brazilian Wandering Spider, which is also referred to as the Banana Spider but is not black and yellow. The Wanderer has the deadliest of all spider venoms, capable of paralyzing victims of it's bite. It is quite fond of Bananas for some reason, hence the nickname Banana Spider.

The Banana Spider, better known as the Golden Silk Orb-Weaver, is the black and yellow spider I believe you were referring to. It holds a neurotoxin very similar to that of the black widow, however it is not nearly as potent. While the Black Widow's bite can be lethal to humans, the Golden Silk's bite would simply cause redness and irritation and would disappear within 24 hours.

According to a website that i just visited (the bug man??) this spider could be what is called a false black widow. I too had a question about this specific description of spider- as I recently found FOUR of them within three days in the same area in my house. According to the bug man, this spider actually eats black widows and something else called a sow bug. Hope this is helpful

I think they like to hide in the garage that's the most place they hide or in the attic if you have one they always like to hide there and check behind doors too and becareful going in the grass to I especially know they hide there if you want to get rid of it call a man to put spider poisining on them.

Lining a burrow with silk has several advantages. Which one is the most important may depend on other factors, such as the weather.

In soil that is very stable and unlikely to cave in, burrow linings are probably most important for helping the spider get a good grip as it moves in its burrow, and for giving the spider a good place to hang its egg sac after it has laid a clutch of eggs.

In soil that is sandy or in soil that gets shifty when wet, the biggest advantage to the spider is that the webbing helps keep the tunnel from caving in.

Trapdoor spiders sometimes get attacked by wasps or other animals that try to pull their door open. The spider grabs her side of the silk-covered door with her fangs and hangs on tightly to the burrow wall with her eight feet. Without a burrow lining to give the spider's claws a good grip, it would be very much easier to pull her out.

Venomous to their small prey which they use to incapacitate before moving in for their kill. Although they can penetrate human skin, their venom is too weak to have any effect.