Black Widow's

[DHayden]

Pulled a tire off of my cargo trailer and one off of my RV today. They both had a black widow between the hub and wheel with about 5 sacks of eggs. If the winds blowing the day those little suckers would have hatched then they would have gotten carried away, if its calm I hate to think of all the places they would go in my trailer.
Not real interested in pulling all 6 tires every year to make sure theres no nests but really dont want black widows infesting my RV either. Guess I can spray behind the tires and in nooks and crannies inside. My car is in the garage for winter. I opened the garage door a few weeks ago and there were 3 Juicy Widows with sacks. One had a web from a generator to my left rear wheel well.
Spiders and snakes dont bother me as long as they are not on me or in my vehicles. Anyone else love widows and have a bunch to deal with?

 

[DavidC]

I had a car parked in the carport one time and opened the drivers door. I was greeted with what seemed like 100 little white (color of baby widows) spiders with webs everywhere. Worst I ever saw was when we lived in Mesa Az., I was burning those things all the time. Then we moved to South Tempe Az. right into a scorpion hot spot. It was not unusual to see one scampering across the ceiling and slithering between the ceiling and a ceiling hung cabinet. Use to burn them also or contact cement them to the street to learn about different tread designs of vehicle tires.

 

[TFucili]

We get quite a few scorpions at the house. When I had the shop we had lots of widows. Never reach into a wheel/tire/hole without gloves, and always on the lookout for those particularly wispy webs.

 

[jhenderson]

Thanks, but I’ll take -0 and snow.

 

[DHayden]

Thanks, but I’ll take -0 and snow.

Its been in the 20's for a few day stretch a couple times this year. They are slower but hasnt killed them. I also see remnants of scorpions in a few of the webs.

 

[JR]

Thanks, but I’ll take -0 and snow.

X 1000.

I'd be up all night wondering what's in bed with me.

No thanks!

 

[Shiner]

I had a car parked in the carport one time and opened the drivers door. I was greeted with what seemed like 100 little white (color of baby widows) spiders with webs everywhere. Worst I ever saw was when we lived in Mesa Az., I was burning those things all the time. Then we moved to South Tempe Az. right into a scorpion hot spot. It was not unusual to see one scampering across the ceiling and slithering between the ceiling and a ceiling hung cabinet. Use to burn them also or contact cement them to the street to learn about different tread designs of vehicle tires.

When we would go TDY to Incirlik Turkey, we used to do the centipede+scorpion+fire ant competition. Scorpion would get the centipede, but the ants always got the scorpion......and of course the centipede too.

 

[TFucili]

Come on fellas, it's not a big deal, once you become a desert rat.

 

[Mark31]

We get quite a few scorpions at the house. When I had the shop we had lots of widows. Never reach into a wheel/tire/hole without gloves, and always on the lookout for those particularly wispy webs.

By scorpions, I take it you are talking about the green/tan/orange lizard-looking critters. I don't think they are scorpions, which are more crab-looking poisonous beasts. I reached down into a hole to turn off a water drain and grabbed a big ole orange one. It didn't take me long to turn him loose! "Cat" keeps them under control, along with some moles, voles, squirrels, rabbits, and birds, which she deposits on the door mat. Now, if she could do something about the possums and dirt dobbers and stay off the Honda, she would be "purrfect"!

 

[GrantP]

X 1000.

I'd be up all night wondering what's in bed with me.

No thanks!

There's no wondering what's in the bed with you when you get stung in the arse by one of those (yes that happened).

 

[TFucili]

By scorpions, I take it you are talking about the green/tan/orange lizard-looking critters. I don't think they are scorpions, which are more crab-looking poisonous beasts. I reached down into a hole to turn off a water drain and grabbed a big ole orange one. It didn't take me long to turn him loose! "Cat" keeps them under control, along with some moles, voles, squirrels, rabbits, and birds, which she deposits on the door mat. Now, if she could do something about the possums and dirt dobbers and stay off the Honda, she would be "purrfect"!

Nope, I meant scorpion.
#ad

 

[Mark31]

TFucilli, my bad! I had forgotten where you live! Please excuse!

 

[TFucili]

TFucilli, my bad! I had forgotten where you live! Please excuse!

No sweat. Well, mainly during monsoon season...

 

[Tuesdak]

Let me take a little break from shoveling Sunshine off the sidewalk in the "It's still the Wild West". There are only so many ways to say 'Sunny and Hot' after all.

Call exterminator... Then you generally only find dead scorpions. You don't let the crickets get out of control because they will follow em. But, yeah gloves, a shovel, UV LED flashlight, and a propane weed burner torch. Packrats and Coyotes love a Bar-B-Q snack. You learn to expect them under things that have sat on the garage floor let alone outside. Even with an exterminator.

Packrats and other critters love vehicle wiring. Coyotes love the little wire munch critters and are known to nearly tear a fender off to get at them. Your dog can be a Coyote Dinner. Little dogs are at risk from owls and other predator birds. (Although a little Jack Russel dog getting hold of a packrat is all like: "My squeak toy exploded!" and into the shower to wash the bloody mess off the dog. Why, yes, Jack Russels ARE N-U-T-S even by U.S. Marine standards. No, not a scratch on the dog.) The said birds regularly leave a mess of a noisy dove with an elbow over there, beak over here, butthole over there, and feathers all over the yard.

A book even Wile E. Coyote would love! (Even cats get into the action.)
https://news.azpm.org/p/news-topical-nature/2017/8/17/115506-pack-rats-for-dinner-anyone/

Palo Verde beetles are only stunned by a shovel wack. A bug zapper amuses them.

The Whip Scorpion is harmless, but, "SPLAT - BANG!" to weird and creepy to calmly work in the garage around. Some videos of how they move around will creep most out. A snow shovel is useful on them as they move lightning quick when they feel the airflow from a shovel.

Oh and the usual snakes.

Then you have the cute Gambles Quail, like rats and mice, near the bottom of the food chain.

 

[GrantP]

Agreed on the crickets, but it's only marginally helpful if your neighbor isn't doing the same. I've been pretty successful controlling them with a black light, a cerveza, and a flip flop sandal to squish the evil little suckers. I've racked up 100's of kills with those flip flops.

 

[JR]

I've killed and ate alot of varmints but you lost me at the word rat!

 

[Tuesdak]

Gee... I didn't even mention the Killer Bees!

Here is a very dead nest that was killed D E A D before a volunteer yard clean-up project for a local Disabled Veteran started. Did I mention 'let the professionals handle it?' aka exterminator...

 

[JR]

Africanized honey bees have made their way up here too, they are aggressive but from what I have seen not as bad as the European hornets we have here.

This one is roughly 60 miles from me

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fo...e-hornets-nest-from-car-in-shocking-video.amp

 

[TFucili]

This was a friend's brother:
https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2017/07/13/man-dies-after-swarm-of-bees-attack-near-congress-az/

 

[Wayne M.]

Life in the Southwest has issues I never knew!