After a nice T-storm I though it was a great idea to sip some beer and sort osage. Well this is the 2nd time in 3 years that I came across one of these little darlings.  Brown Recluses are bad enough but these are a little more potent.

 

 

Be careful when you are working with stored wood.

Sean

thats a blackwidow!, the guy who taught my dad how to make knives would pick them up and move them to the part of the shop with lots of bugs

They keep them for pets out here in Az. I'm not to crazy about them. As long as they are eating bugs they are ok but they lay lots of eggs and hatch lots of babys. I try to remove as many egg sacks as I can find. The Recluce is the one that is scary!!

Nasty, I just dont like spiders of any kind! I am sure glad them widows and recluses havent made thier way up to Northern IA! Well, I am sure there are some around but I have never seen or heard of one locally.

EWWWWWWWWW  A WIDDER!

Ain't ya supposed to smash that in the side of the riser?

Hmm I don't see why guys would like Black Widows so much...they ugly  

does the string go on the first second third or fourth set of legs?

Those pesky little critters used to be all over the shop at work. I've thinned the herd quite a bit.

If it was on a piece of wood I had in my shop, the only thing I would have had to photograph would have been a BIG black spot left after I smashed it with the longest handled sledge hammer I could grab!!!!!!

I am petrified of ALL spiders, but those suckers and those blasted HAIRY monsters scare me to the poing of heart attack.  I make my wife and 3 little girls kill all the spiders at my house.  I even have a bounty out for them.  The girls get 1.00 a piece and the wife gets .25 cents.

So are you gonna name one of those bows a "Black Widow?"  Had to ask!

I wouldn't give you $20 for a whole barrel full of those.   :D

You would not like our neck of the woods..Funnel Web spider bites can mean death..Redbacks are common as flies and their bite can sure make you sick.These are followed by Whitetails. A bite can create a ulcer which which is hard to get to heal.Down this way in camp you sure shake the boots out.Still I guess they get their share of bugs.

Hey Stormer, didn't know yet you also have Whitetails in Oz!? Camels, feral Goats, Axis Deer, H2O Buff, etc. - okay - but Whitetails?!      :p    :D  

Oz is the most poisenous overall continent I suppose. Here we don't have any too nasty critter outside. And any spider, I hate them too, could be easily flattended with one finger ...

I hunt with a bow but if I saw that around my house....12ga.

Heres a widow

I hear them Widows are noisy. Did he scream a lot when you grabbed him with those pliers?  

Curtis not only noisy but will give ya a heck of a bite on the hand when you try and shoot em.

LOL

Mike

I had one crawl over the back of my hand, the second day I was in the US. I wasn't sure what it was until I looked it up on the net. But one thing I wasn't sure of was....would a 45lb bow be heavy enough for those? What sort of point should I use? And do they taste like chicken?  :D
Graham