From time to time Humans have a run in with spiders, usually to the spider’s misfortune. Spiders seem to give a lot of people the creeps or scare the heck out of them. Here in my home state of North Carolina we have two venomous types of spiders to worry about. The venomous spiders in ...
It’s a plain fact that bugs are everywhere and North Carolina is no exception. Most people are familiar with bees and wasps, whose painful stings can be bothersome, but rarely fatal unless the victim has an allergy or they are attacked by a swarm. There are, however, bugs who can deliver a single bite that ...
In most situations, you do not need to worry about being bitten by a spider. Most spider bites will simply cause you to experience some itching at the location of the bite, but that is about as far as the symptoms will go. However, there are four very poisonous types of spiders which you should ...
So you are getting ready to go to bed for the night. You set your alarm clock and just before you turn out the lights, you notice a large spider on the wall next to your bed. Depending on your sensitivity to the critter, you will capture and throw it outside or you will grab ...
Of the thousands of different kinds of spiders that exist, most are harmless to people and are very beneficial to the environment and bug control. However, there are four kinds of poisonous spiders living in the United States that pose a danger to people. They are called the Brown Recluse spider, the Yellow Sac spider, ...
I was thrilled to move to Southern Illinois. Poisonous spiders and snakes and evil insects were not on my mind. This was a great new adventure. Clearly, I remember my first day and moving into my own apartment. It was particularly sweet or so I thought that it was May and warm enough that I ...
It was so awesome getting this audiobook in the mail. I’m a huge fan of Jim Butcher’s writing and have been waiting anxiously for this latest installment of “The Dresden Files,” featuring my favorite wizard and all around protector of humanity. I think even if Chuck Norris were a wizard Harry Dresden would still give ...
Spiders, which are commonly feared and the source of many urban legends, are not predisposed to bite humans unless they feel threatened. Very few spiders, even when they do bite, are dangers to human beings, but it is always good to be careful when you don’t know how to identify poisonous spiders. Spider bites are ...
This article is about venomous spiders in California. Hopefully if you searched for “Poisonous spiders in California” then you found this article anyway. I was called to task over this in previous spider articles I have written. Poisonous means something ingested, venomous means you were bitten or stung by some critter. Thus the correct title ...
Labor Day is a weekend of fun, excitement, and enjoying the last days of summer. The last thing anyone wants to do is end up spending their time in the emergency room, but hundreds of people each year find themselves in that exact place wondering how injury or even death could have been prevented. Here ...
