Say Hello to my Little Friend!

[calyrider]

Found this bugger under my seat this weekend! Figure he's been down there for a bit. The guy I bought my bike from had not driven it in some time, so he's been along for the ride for about a month! Almost sorry to say goodbye! Not! Black Widow, for those who may not know.

[cfell]

Kta! Kta! Kta!

[jayjacobson]

Found this bugger under my seat this weekend! Figure he's been down there for a bit. The guy I bought my bike from had not driven it in some time, so he's been along for the ride for about a month! Almost sorry to say goodbye! Not! Black Widow, for those who may not know.
Believe it or not, I never bother the spiders and wasps and dems don't bother me! Probably a mutual agreement from long, long ago.

[hagar]

I leave Wolf and other harmless spiders alone, but I will kill with a vengeance any black widows or brown recluse spiders.

[STARFIGHTER]

camping along the coast in Maine........................
In the morning I got geared up and hit the road..
A few miles down the road, I felt something crawling on my head.....
"stay up there...don't come down on my face or I'll freak..."
" Don't think about it......find a spot to pull off........easy now..."
Dismounted, got the helmet off and dumped super spider out..............

[ibbones]

I leave Wolf and other harmless spiders alone, but I will kill with a vengeance any black widows or brown recluse spiders.Same here. I have a spider family growing up in my car and as lond as they stay is "their area" all is good. (OK, it's an older car with no A/C). If it's a spider that can hurt me, it dies.

[jayjacobson]

I leave Wolf and other harmless spiders alone, but I will kill with a vengeance any black widows or brown recluse spiders.
Same here. I have a spider family growing up in my car and as lond as they stay is "their area" all is good. (OK, it's an older car with no A/C). If it's a spider that can hurt me, it dies.
What about Tranchulas? They are native to my area in So Kal. Bite/toxic?

I once saw a dude who said he was bitten by a Brown Recluse on his arm. He had significant swelling and local pain. The skin and tissue around the bite was dying and he had to have the skin and dead tissue cut away. He said his arm was going numb, also. But, if you're allergic to the bite, you can go tits up right away.

[XMagnaRider]

I have been stung by bees twice in my life, both times while riding a motorcycle.

1. Bee thumped into my chest - no windscreen, but the leather jacket was zipped up. Happens all the time. They usually bounce off. This one somehow managed to hang on, and may have been a little upset. I noticed the thump, but didn't notice anything else. The bee crawled up my jacket, down into the collar, and stung me on the back of my neck. Ouch.

2. It was early fall in BC, and the weather had started to get nippy. I hung my helmet from the side lock on the bike, and stuffed my gloves inside the helmet. Sometime later, a bee sauntered by and found a nice warm cozy place in the right glove, at the end of the "ring" finger. At the end of the workday, I put on my gear, started the bike, accelerated briskly to about 50 mph, heading for home. A half mile down the road, the bee decided that it wanted out. It began buzzing furiously inside the tip of my glove. Words cannot describe the creepy feeling that you get when you notice something large, buzzing INSIDE your glove. It is hard to imagine what the drivers behind me saw, as I tried to fling the glove off my hand while in motion. I had to do it one-handed, because I couldn't take my left hand off the handlebars. The glove wouldn't come off on its own. The bee stung the end of my finger before I could stop the bike. Ouch.