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I tried to make a pet out of a large beautiful garden spider that had an enormous web on my porch. I would catch flies a flick them into her web. She would get them and bring them to the central area of the web and devour them. One day she just packed up and left.
I'm so sorry,I know you're trying to show off your beautiful archanid. Unfortunately, I cant stop thinking about how much you look like a character I saw in a TV show named Vasiri and you are doing great, I promise, but Its just funny to me
My cousin almost died from them. Another guy kidney failure. Another , in Idaho in hospital for weeks. Nope, you can be stupid all you want. Not me. See some with white star like markings in trees in Idaho. Not aggressive as I see don’t bite unless hurt, or something. Had many on me. Don’t like it. Funny story. At work a coworker couldn’t figure out why someone put a grape under the table. He was feeling it with his finger. Looked and- yup a big black widow. Guess she didn’t mind getting petted. He said got the chills, never did that again.
I’m a contractor & a couple years ago I was cutting a beam, the beam was wrapped with plastic & had been sitting under a stack of lumber, after I moved it I pulled the plastic wrap off the beam. when I did I felt something on my shin (I was wearing shorts) I was in such a hurry I didn’t bother to look at it I just figured it was sawdust… I took a measurement walked back to my saw horses that I had set the beam on, measured it, cut it & installed it. I kept feeling what I thought was sawdust off & on during this process after I was done I finally looked down to brush off what I thought was going to be sawdust & it was a huge Black Widow spider on my shin that had been there for at least 10 to 15 minutes, she never bit me & to this day I don’t know why? I also didn’t kill her.
Cottonmouths have to be my favorite snake. I might be biased because of how common they are in my area, but I think they are very unique compared to other Pit Vipers
Here in SoCal, Black Widows are everywhere. The bigger problem here is that the Brown Widow is displacing the Black Widow. I probably see equal numbers of them, but not too many years ago, I don't ever remember seeing a Brown Widow. I guess one good thing about that is the Brown Widow is less aggressive towards humans and the bite produces less serious reactions.
i played with a bunch of black widows when i was younger, usually unti i get bored and killed it kinda mean i know but I thought if i killed it theres less of a chance of someone getting bit. Anyway I moved from the desert to a swamp and started fishing instead 🙂
I kept one as a pet. Black Widows are capable of local disfigurement and they have fearless bad tempers. Bites often come from fingers dangling under benches, cars, and sitting spots. Thumbs down for showing such carelessness and false sympathy. You didn't show how fast they move and strike.
They used to be all over south Florida before they developed every single acre of land to build condos. To my absolute horror, I’ve walked through many of their webs. I’ve heard sometimes you’ll see a little spider on their webs but it’s not always their young, it’s some kind of pseudo-parasitic spider that takes advantage of their web to feed.
I have been "chased" by cottonmouths, but the so called chase is just they want to get away and that's the way they want to go. However, they ARE very good for dropping into your boat. LOL
Spider enthusiasts trying their darndest to get us all to love spiders. “Yes you will need medical attention from a bite from this spider, but don’t be afraid of them.” Unbelievable.
many are afraid of spiders, but I have discovered from my own house in the country that once they have painstakingly built their web, they do not move there for anything in the world. They are actually very useful in keeping flies and mosquitoes at bay.
I’ve been a keeper for over 25 years off and on and have had over 20 snakes and Copperheads are extremely twitchy and spook very easily unlike their cousin the Cottonmouth which are imo a little easier to work with but Copperheads not so much. I’ve never had a venomous bite so I can’t give my opinion of how it affects everyone differently similar to the way some people are allergic to bee stings. Some people can have an allergic reactions to non venomous snake bites which is very very rare even though they don’t possess venom but their saliva can act the same way as a Komodo dragon bite. Boomslangs were considered non venomous at one point until a herpetologist was bitten and noticed he had fang marks on his bottom left thumb and documented the events up until his death from the bite. My case and point is there is so much about the reptiles that we may never know and the power they possess
Definitely agree that cottons are easier to work with, though coppers are way overhyped in terms of their propensity for biting when encountered in the wild. We definitely have so much to learn about reptiles!
I‘m so jealous that you can just go to the forest and find stag beetles like that, they have gotten so rare here in Europe. Thanks for giving them some of the attention they deserve :)
So one finds stag beetles the same way one looks for, but never finds, scarlet kingsnakes. Next species is either a timber or EDB- I'm going with timber.
I used to clear the Right-Of-Way of DOW pipelines in East Texas. These pipelines were out in the boonies and ran through ranches and unincorporated Brazoria county. Being out in the middle of nowhere without supervisors looking over our shoulders, we would fuck with each other a lot by doing stupid pranks. My group and I would run into golden orb weaver spiders nearly everyday out in the field. A few of the guys I worked with were country boys from the area and were very familiar with the spiders. As kids, they would handle them without any fear just like is shown in the video. They were so confident with the spiders that they would grab them off of their webs and throw them at anyone in the group that was closest. Of course I wouldn’t let this slide, so I did the same to them…And this is why women live longer. 😂
A Great Video. You know I Love how you educate us. I don't know where you are my friend Ben . But I hope you're safe from the hurricane..Thanks for the video but be safe Ben from the hurricane. 😉👍❤️
Great choice of critter! We have some with the extra large mandibles in my yard and they are very feisty. Thanks for such fascinating information on them.
@@TheWildReportOfficial I wish! But nope. I did have one male who staked out a spot on a ledge by my front door every night, right under our spot light. I assumed he was hunting smaller bugs, but if they aren't predators as adults, maybe it was more like a lek. He was there every night for several weeks, but gone by daylight.
@@joylayton8794 Aw man, maybe next year. I bet he was just attracted to the light because...you know, come to think of it, I really don't know why so many insects are attracted to lights, gotta look into that.
