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Spiders - It is important to be able to identify them.

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Real Estate Agent with Integrity Real Estate Services 116 SE AVE N, Idabel, OK 74745 141871

This time of the year spiders are looking for hiding places... warm places...  like your home!  Some are poisonous and others are not. 

 

 

If you get bitten by a spider, it is important to be able to identify what it was.

Some very good pictures are located here to help you .. if you do not know the difference in spiders, I encourage you to learn which spiders are which!

 

 

Having taught science for a few years, it became apparent that a lot of people cannot identify poisonous spiders. 

 

 

Now don't get me wrong... I do not like spiders - any spiders, poisonous or not.  That's one thing that Garfield the cat and I have in common.. spider gets close enough to me and if I have something to swat him/her with - he's DEAD!

 

 

But still if one bit you, you would want to be able to tell the emergency room folks what it was.. so even though this may make you squeamish... please learn the difference in spiders!

Comments (12)

Craig Richardson
National Realty - McLean, VA

Judi, scary stuff!  Thanks for the post.  I'll be sure not to show my son, who is petrified of spiders.

Nov 29, 2009 12:20 PM
Sara Homan
Coldwell Banker Ellison Realty 352-209-4044 - Ocala, FL
Realtor, Homes, Farms & 55+

Judi,

Not the most appealing subject to deal with but it sure is a great resource, Thank you!  We can certainly use the website reference here in Florida.

Nov 29, 2009 12:20 PM
George Souto
George Souto NMLS #65149 FHA, CHFA, VA Mortgages - Middletown, CT
Your Connecticut Mortgage Expert

Judi, I don't mind spiders, but we have some brown ones around here that can ruin your day if they bit you.

Nov 29, 2009 01:21 PM
Sharon & Bruce Walter
Keller Williams Realty Lafayette, IN - Lafayette, IN
West Lafayette homes for sale

Oh, Judi they give me the creeps-especially the one that "moved" on the link site!!!!  You do raise a very good point.  I just like to call my husband to squish them.  Yuk!

Nov 29, 2009 02:26 PM
Joe Pryor
The Virtual Real Estate Team - Oklahoma City, OK
REALTOR® - Oklahoma Investment Properties

We have Fiddlebacks in Oklahoma. Those creatures are dangerous.

Nov 30, 2009 01:23 AM
1~Judi Barrett
Integrity Real Estate Services 116 SE AVE N, Idabel, OK 74745 - Idabel, OK
BS Ed, Integrity Real Estate Services -IDABEL OK

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for coming by:

Joe, Sharon, George, Sara, and Craig,

I just visited each of your blogs..Thank you for reading and commenting.

Hope you can use the info.

Nov 30, 2009 07:24 AM
Robin Rogers
Robin Rogers, Silverbridge Realty, San Antonio, Texas - San Antonio, TX
CRS, TRC, MRP - Real Estate Investment Adviser

Hi, Judi!

Good information. We have two poisonous spiders in Texas, the black widow and the far more dangerous brown recluse. They are harder to spot and tend to hide in places people reach into, so people don't see them before they get bitten (out of self-defense, it has to be said).

I don't like spiders either, but I let them live because they get rid of annoying bugs like mosquitoes and roaches. They're actually more scared of us than we are of them.

Cheers,

Robin

Dec 01, 2009 01:08 AM
Russel Ray, San Diego Business & Marketing Consultant & Photographer
Russel Ray - San Diego State University, CA

Maybe that's why there are so many mosquitos in the South, people keep killing the spiders that catch the mosquitos in their spider webs.

Happy December!

Dec 01, 2009 05:47 PM
Larry Story ALC
Total Care Realty - Greensboro, NC
Beneath it all is the Land, Covering all of NC

Judi,

Very nice information to have.  By the way don't listen to Russel we have mosquitos because we have water.

Dec 01, 2009 09:52 PM
Sallie Williams
Keller Williams Realty RED STICK PARTNERS - Baton Rouge, LA
REALTOR - MBA, Baton Rouge

Judi, have you ever seen a writing spider?  Absolutely beautiful creature that makes a white zig-zag in it's web, and it gets really big.  I have to tell you about my most fascinating spider experience.  There was a big spider on the back porch ... don't know what kind, but it looked "different".  It had a big round fuzzy abdomen.  We poked at it to encourage it to move into the garden ... and hundreds of minuscule baby spiders ran off her back.  We love our spiders ... just have to know the good ones and the bad ones and, like you said, take precautions.

Dec 01, 2009 11:12 PM
Chris Ann Cleland
Long and Foster Real Estate - Gainesville, VA
Associate Broker, Bristow, VA

Judi:  My husband had an up close experience with a handful of black widows in a dark, obscure place.  Scared the life of out him.

Dec 02, 2009 05:34 AM
Chris Ann Cleland
Long and Foster Real Estate - Gainesville, VA
Associate Broker, Bristow, VA

Judi:  Had to stop back by.  Now I am completely freaked out.  I just saw that wolf spiders are considered poisonous.  I have these things in my home all the time.  And they are HUGE. 

Dec 02, 2009 05:36 AM