> Behalf Of Russell Chapman > > I take an each way bet with spiders (ours aren't as wussy as yours, > overall). I also figure killing them with a shoe is not very > sportsmanlike, but that same dark recess of my brain doesn't want him > around either, so I feed them to my pet dragons...
"Aren't as wussy as yours"...! That has to be the understatement of the year. Down where pretty much anything that moves can kill you, or at least make you wish you were dead. I lived in an apartment for several years that had many of these strange little brown spiders. It was only after a friend encountered one that I learned they were brown recluses. Not fun. We ended up staying in that apartment for another couple of years while fighting a losing battle against the spiders and the apartment management. I've learned alot about recluses since then and have learned that they aren't as dangerous as we had feared. Yet, since they tend to prey on other spiders, my wife and I tend to pounce on any stray spiders in our house as potential brown recluse food. We do have a TON of wolf spiders in our house (in Missouri). The one in the picture is a LITTLE one compared to some of the ones we've found. Most of them get a quick death. Occassionally we'll catch one in a jar and keep it for a bit just to marvel at the hugeness of it. Then there was the time I killed a wolf spider that was carrying its young on its back. That wasn't fun. "Indy, why does the carpet move...?" - jmh At least that apartment was free of other bugs... _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
