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Old 07-26-2019, 05:57 PM
 
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We tolerate the outdoor spiders as long as they aren’t the widows nor brown recluse. When they’re outside they’re good spiders. When they enter the home then they’re dead if we find them.
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Old 07-26-2019, 08:04 PM
 
Location: South Dakota
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I would. I'd be just as surprised to run into a brown recluse roaming around in Orange County, CA as I would be to see a cottonmouth snake, a copperhead, an alligator, or any other wild species that is not native to California but technically could have been brought here somehow.

No one needs to worry about brown recluse spiders in California, any more than you need to worry that someone inadvertently brought an anaconda in their moving truck from Florida.
Thank you, but my post didn't need to be fixed. I grew up there, so I can call it anything I want to. Critters can be, and have been imported into new places, usually by humans. It happens quite often. Didn't you read in an earlier post #23 on this thread about the "South American violin spider, also known as the Chilean brown recluse, was transported to the San Gabriel Valley in some costume trunks. It is not a native species." This is exactly what I was referring to. This is just one of many non native species that have found their way into a new area. Small creatures can find their way here hidden away much easier than much larger ones. The large ones like pythons get released by unethical owners.

Florida is now home to large numbers of pythons that were turned loose, and took a liking to it. It has turned into a very big problem for the state. Japanese carp is another one, as are zebra mussels. Plants, and insects also. So it is not out of the question for non native species to find a new home elsewhere even if it is a small, and isolated population. This isn't something I dreamed up. It's well known in certain circles. If it happens with these other species, it can happen with the brown recluse also. It just takes the right circumstances like one pregnant female, and time for their numbers to increase. That doesn't mean they will take over. Just that it is possible for them to be transported outside of their normal range. Maybe it is too dry for them in cali. Human reintroduction is how bed bugs have returned to the scene after being pretty much eradicated in the past.


https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Reso...vasive-Species

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Old 07-27-2019, 05:53 AM
 
Location: state of confusion
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Yup. Black little fuzzy ones in the house. Splat! Outside daddy long legs, I don't bother them. If they lay flat and extend their legs they're the size of a bagel. Black widows must retire here. See them outside all the time.
I love to go barefoot, hate shoes. Looked down one day and a Black widow was about 6 inches from my foot. Splat! with a shovel. I still go barefoot.
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Old 07-27-2019, 08:20 AM
 
Location: SW Florida
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I have an organic pest control service so I rarely see a spider in or around my house. Occasionally I see a crab spider outside or a Daddy Long Legs inside. They are captured and released. Most spiders are beneficial and I wish I could train them to take care of the big headed ants that I have been battling for 2 years on and off.
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Old 07-27-2019, 08:21 AM
 
Location: Florida
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Plenty of spiders in the PNW. I don’t mind them, they are a gardener’s friend and they keep the fly population down. With horses, come lots of flies.
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Old 07-27-2019, 10:08 AM
 
Location: Southern MN
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... like this?



Orbs are pretty:

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Yes, the web looked like that. Such an amazing feat for something that would appear to have no higher reasoning powers.

Your spider is odd looking. Must be a Texas spider? Mine was what we call a barn spider:

https://minnesotaspiders.blogspot.co...cavaticus.html
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Old 07-28-2019, 07:52 AM
 
Location: SW Florida
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Looks like a crab spider. We have them here in Florida but I only noticed them in the last 20 years. Ours are usually red and they are creepy looking.
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Old 07-28-2019, 06:46 PM
 
Location: Erie, PA
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Yes, we get plenty of spiders living right by a very large lake --look at my location.

The spiders are beneficial by controlling other bugs and while they can be a bit of a pest at times by showing up in the basement we catch them and escort them back outside.

We get a lot of the orb weavers in our garden and the wolf spiders in the yard (and basement). My favorites are the jumping spiders. We have one this year that hangs around our porch light and is black with bright green eyes.

The brown recluse doesn't occur in my area but the black widow does. I have encountered only one black widow and it was semi-outdoors in a storage shed. Be mindful of these kinds of spaces ::
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Old 07-28-2019, 08:50 PM
 
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Please, for the most part, Spiders are not all evil and nightmarish.............they are your beneficial friends and
house-partners!!!

So, for the most part, even those huge, hairy, horrifying spiders should be left alone to wander-about and murder
those truly evil and disgusting insects invading your home:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyNFgJb7amk
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