There's a black widow in my pc

[Scruffy90]

[boltonbolwell]

Black widows are house spiders. They have evolved alongside people and their homes; without the selective pressures of the outdoors. That is to say, if you put a spider outside, it will either return to a house or most likely die.

 

Personally, I leave house spiders alone (they kill vectors like flies and mosquitos). Unless I find a hobo, brown recluse, or black widow. Those unfortunately need to be disposed of due to the threat they pose. I use a wood block or a torch, depending on the situation.

 

Edit: NVM these guys can live outside. The above applies to most house spiders though.

[CommanderAlex]

It's funny that I see this post...last week or so while watching a LTT video during dinner time, I saw a black thing fall from the ceiling onto my desk that is the center left of the position of the screen. It was a damn spider....I was staring it down and it didn't move as I was yelling for my dad to get a napkin as I know if I move away, the spider will. I got a napkin a minute later and tried to kill it and it went at a diagonal to the top left of my desk. I didn't know where it went so I put the YouTube video back on and saw the spider move around from the speaker I have on my desk. I managed to lift the speaker up and killed the damn thing. Then I went to take it for a special treatment in the bathroom .

[Trik'Stari]

3 hours ago, Statik said:

There's one solution.

[dfsgsfa]

poor spider, nothing to eat in pc...

[Letgomyleghoe]

3 hours ago, Tan3l6 said:

There's a differtence between bats and flying foxes though. Flying foxes would be great news to me...

otherwise:

I guess the reference system would be Schmidt sting pain index. Bullet ant seems bad, at least from Coyote Petersons videos..

Bullet ants are fine if it’s just one, but if you are out and get stung there’s usually around 200 more stings, bad juju.

 

2 hours ago, Lord Vile said:

I live in the UK so the worst venomous thing here is an adder but from reading around is it true that though the bites can fucking hurt they not super lethal outside of the usual elderly, children and health issues crowd? 

What the hell is an adder?

[Lord Vile]

1 minute ago, Letgomyleghoe said:

Bullet ants are fine if it’s just one, but if you are out and get stung there’s usually around 200 more stings, bad juju.

 

What the hell is an adder?

Snake:

 

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/reptiles/adder

[RAS_3885]

4 hours ago, Eighjan said:

That ain't big... Theraphosa Blondi - THAT'S big.

 

4 hours ago, Eighjan said:

TOLD ya...

 

Cute, ain't it...?  

No thank you.

 

You keep it.

[Letgomyleghoe]

5 minutes ago, Lord Vile said:

Snake:

 

https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/reptiles/adder

Ah it’s just a cute danger noodle, seems to not like hoomans, also saw a “slow worm” on that page and now feel a need to hold one.

[mr moose]

Move to Australia if you are worried, Only  small protion of our insects or animals are dangerous.

 

 

[Letgomyleghoe]

15 minutes ago, mr moose said:

Move to Australia if you are worried, Only  small protion of our insects or animals are dangerous.

 

 

And this is exactly why I will never go to Australia,

 

seen some creepy thing in your nightmares? Probably something similar to it in Australia 

[mr moose]

1 minute ago, Letgomyleghoe said:

And this is exactly why I will never go to Australia,

 

seen some creepy thing in your nightmares? Probably something similar to it in Australia 

Nah, I've been here my whole life, got bitten by a spider once, nothing happened.  well...    almost nothing...   I can now climb walls without a rope and shoot white stuff out my wrists,  but other than that nothing happened.

 

 

 

[Letgomyleghoe]

2 minutes ago, mr moose said:

Nah, I've been here my whole life, got bitten by a spider once, nothing happened.  well...    almost nothing...   I can now climb walls without a rope and shoot white stuff out my wrists,  but other than that nothing happened.

 

 

 

Little do you know you’re just hallucinating from the spider venom 

[mr moose]

1 minute ago, Letgomyleghoe said:

Little do you know you’re just hallucinating from the spider venom 

Some seriously potent venom, that was like 15 years ago.

 

 

[SansVarnic]

12 hours ago, Lord Vile said:

<snip> is it true that though the bites can fucking hurt they not super lethal outside of the usual elderly, children and health issues crowd? 

Mostly true. If the Black Widow is full size 1.5-2inches and has the red hour glass they are the more lethal ones and can kill you. If you are a healthy adult, you most likely will not die but you do need to be treated just incase.

The more common western black widow (or button black widow) bite hurts like hell though. I have them all over my garage and they get about 3/4 - 1 inch. 

Black Widows will only bite if threatened just like most spiders. They dont bite because they can.

[Lord Vile]

18 minutes ago, SansVarnic said:

Mostly true. If the Black Widow is full size 1.5-2inches and has the red hour glass they are the more lethal ones and can kill you. If you are a healthy adult, you most likely will not die but you do need to be treated just incase.

The more common western black widow (or button black widow) bite hurts like hell though. I have them all over my garage and they get about 3/4 - 1 inch. 

Black Widows will only bite if threatened just like most spiders. They dont bite because they can.

Just curious. We don’t get anything dangerous over here really. Aside from scousers of course.

[Letgomyleghoe]

1 hour ago, SansVarnic said:

Black Widows will only bite if threatened just like most spiders. They dont bite because they can.

this applies to a lot of animals, i remember drunkenly chasing a rat at a party then watching in disbelief as it started to run back and chase me instead.

 

we did figure out who was boss that night

[PhantomJaguarr]

I’m surprised with myself that I read through the whole post. Did give me anxiety though because my PC is by the window.