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osugrad21 said:
With as many downpurs as we have in the past two weeks, even our ant treatment has been somewhat negated. When kids are stretching and suddenly realize they are being chewed up, they waste no time stripping down to their shorts to get them off.

Its comical, but I ve also seen kids with so many bites that they got nauseous...
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I remember umpiring a baseball game in Oklahoma a few years back when the kid in center field started screaming and running around in circles. Sure enough, he had stood on some fire ants. I made it a point after that to do a good visual of the outfield before games, even though the groundskeeper was supposed to be taking care of that.
 
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Spiders do not worry me. They can't fly, so I can either dodge them with ease or let go about their good work cutting down on the population of disease carrying or stinging insects. Hornets and Wasps and the like, I don't like. I see little they bring to the scheme of things.
 
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scooter1369 said:
When I lived in Daytona Beach, they were everywhere. I was all of 6 yrs old when I had my first encouter with fire ants. That hurt like hell. I had about 15 bites on my legs.

Hey AB, been to Okinawa to see the spiders there yet?
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Don't need to go to Okinawa to see those...they are pretty common over here. They like to set up outside of door entrances where there is a firelight...especially like in an outside stairwell. The one that got me tonight wasn't one of those though. I would have actually preferred that it had been. I'm telling you, this was one big, hairy, wickid-looking spider.
 
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Fire Ants sound like a whole lot of fun!

The ugliest spiders I ever saw were in a storm sewer we used to climb through when I was little. It was the end of the line and dumped into the Cuyahoga River and was a good sized pipe. Anyways, there was this manhole-tower type thing above the pipe we used to lift the cover off of to climb down into the sewer. One summer it was really dry and all the spiders had nested right inside the cover doors. It took two guys to lift the cover and as soon as we saw those things we dropped it right back in place and never went into the sewers again. They were big old Wolf spiders. Damn ugly and slimy suckers.

Does anyone remember about a decade ago when they were warning campers at Ohio state parks to be careful when using the outhouses? It was another very dry summer and I guess Wolf spiders were living in the pits. Every once in a while someone using the outhouse would get a greeting from one of those bastards! That is one heck of a "How do you do?"
 
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I am not afraid of spiders exactly. But the one that I do fear is the Brown Recluse.......if you are not familiar, go google it, see the kind of damage they will do.

Scary thing is, we do have them around here.......just not in large numbers. Everytime I am moving firewood and such, I have those critters in the back of my mind.
 
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When I was around 8 my friends and I started going to this little horse farm near my house to watch the horses. We would climb around in the hay loft and play hide and seek, covering ourselves in piles of hay and the like. After 2 summers of doing this my mom said we couldn't go anymore, but wouldn't tell us why. They tore it down a few years ago to make way for a subdivision and I remembered my mom telling us we couldn't go, so I asked her about it. She produced a newspaper article she had saved for about 15 years (she's a pack rat) that detailed the owner's encounter with a Brown Recluse that was holed up in the hay loft.

I have never been so thankful to my mom for anything.
I hate spiders.
 
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BrutusMaximus said:
I am not afraid of spiders exactly. But the one that I do fear is the Brown Recluse.......if you are not familiar, go google it, see the kind of damage they will do.

Scary thing is, we do have them around here.......just not in large numbers. Everytime I am moving firewood and such, I have those critters in the back of my mind.
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My Mom got bit by one of those fuckers a few years ago. She thought it was just a bug bite no big deal...after awhole it got red, and she went to the doc to check it out. They ended upo having to drill a whole in her leg to get all the venom out, said if she would have waited a few more days she may have lost her leg. She was layed up for about 3 weeks with it and she had a cane and stuff after surgery.

That was near Cincy by the way....so yup they are in Ohio :)
 
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osugrad21 said:
Come on down south and experience some good ole Fire Ants...those little bastards hurt like hell and will swell you up. After a good rain, you can count on them being everywhere...

Oh, and I despise spiders....
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Grad is right!! I grow up in Ohio and lived in the midwest all my life till four years ago. You wouldn't think a little ant would bother you so much, not till you stumble onto their nest. Those little things are vicious and their bites sting like hell. After that first bite it is now out and out war around my house against those little bastards. I spray the lawn for those little shits every Spring and I rarely see an ant mound now. But when I do I give them some food laced with insecticide to kill them and the queen. I hate the little bastards, but spiders come in a close second. As long as they stay out of the house we can co-exist but if they enter my turf they are history!!
 
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I have the aluminum low voltage lights along the driveway, the walkway and highlighting the house. The fire ants and the black widow spiders love to use the lights as a nest. Maintenance on the lights can be tricky.

I use the feed that kills the fire ant mound. They just pick up and move. Down here you force them into your neighbors yard and then they force them back to yours.
 
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buckeyefool said:
My Mom got bit by one of those ****ers a few years ago. She thought it was just a bug bite no big deal...after awhole it got red, and she went to the doc to check it out. They ended upo having to drill a whole in her leg to get all the venom out, said if she would have waited a few more days she may have lost her leg. She was layed up for about 3 weeks with it and she had a cane and stuff after surgery.

That was near Cincy by the way....so yup they are in Ohio :)
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We just had a guy at work get bit by one on his thigh. He thought it was just a regular bite until it got bigger and then developed a dark interior...He had surgery last Tuesday and won't be back to work for awhile.

Check out these pictures...
http://earthsciences.com/images/Medical Images/BrownRecluse/brown_recluse.htm
 
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I saw some pictures of what those bites can do to you a long time ago and i remember when you got to the 8th or so day is just got plain sick. I do, however, remember reading that only 1 in 10 bites ever get that bad but I still don't like those odds if the possible result is...well you know
 
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FIRE ANTS..... don't get me started. Those thing hurt like a mother fucker. I had an encounter with a Banana Spider at my sisters house in Tampa. The damn thing made a web from a tree to her house and it was HUGE. She's had these things sitting and waiting for her on her front door knob when she comes home....

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LoKyBuckeye said:
FIRE ANTS..... don't get me started. Those thing hurt like a mother fucker. I had an encounter with a Banana Spider at my sisters house in Tampa. The damn thing made a web from a tree to her house and it was HUGE. She's had these things sitting and waiting for her on her front door knob when she comes home....

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isn't he cute.
 
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