Kill It With Fire (official thread devoted to spiders, snakes, etc.) (1 Viewer)

you do know that half of my life growing up was in rural victoria, australia? yep, dual citizenship beotches.

somehow it never bothered me and we had the two of the deadliest snakes in around us.

i've killed a few 'brown' snakes, multiple redback spiders, and several poisonous centipedes, or maybe millipedes, whatever. those forkers are aggressive, as are kangaroos, wallabies, and especially the butt crevasse koalas.

it almost wasn't a consideration of what to find most of the time. you just had to be alert walking places.

I haven't met that many Australians, but all of the Australians I've met, they were fun to party with.
 
wasps are absolute forking butt crevasses and i swell where bitten, and my throat starts to swell. not fun. I'm alergic to needles and having a eoitomepen or whatever stabbed into you is enough to avoid them.

Red/Paper wasps are docile and won't attack unless you do something stupid like poke at their nest with a stick,or throw something at it like kids are apt to do. They are considered a gardeners friend. Their main prey is cutworms and caterpillars who can wipe out a small garden overnight.


Yellowjackets are a different story and I found out the hard way. The build their nest underground and are very difficult to see. The vibrations from a lawn mower will send them into full attack mode. I was mowing my grandmothers yard when I was a teen. I was hit 50 times before I made back inside her house. It was not a pleasant experience. Thank God, I wasn't allergic to the venom.
 




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There is only one proper way to handle this.

 
Snakes no problem, lizards? I will burn my house down. Someone hung a lizard on my ear at the age of 5 and they are now my kryptonite!

Do you have any filipino friends living in the southern U.S. ? Lizards released in the home will seek out and destroy Brown Recluse Spiders. The bite of a brown recluse will do far for damage than a lizard bite on your ear. sorry, I'm a nature nerd to the nth degree.
 
I am terrified of any kind of snake. I surprised myself at staying calm when I had a moccasin crawl across my foot and one swim between my legs when I was crossing a stream.

I went bow hunting last October and was going to climb up a ladder stand , but the support beam had came loose. I decided to use my stool and just sit in the brush underneath it.
I got between 2 small trees with brush to my back. After a while I heard something rustling in the leaves so thinking a deer was coming up behind me I turned and looked; and out the corner of my eye I see a 3ft cotton mouth coming right at me.
I was out of my cover and into the open in a flash. He curled up and I shot him with my crossbow, almost cutting him in half.
That wasn't good enough. I pulled out my pistol and emptied the clip on him.
Let's just say the rest of my hunting trip was more of looking on the ground and less looking at my surroundings.
 
I was in a parking garage elevator with a giant spider looking down at me from his perch on the ceiling. Luckily for the GoPark, he didn't drop down on me and I didn't have a blow torch on me. Because if he had made a move on me, that would have been my go to defense. It was the most terrifying 3-floor elevator ride of my life. I may have nightmares all week.
I like how you assume the spider is male
 

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