Do black widows like to hide in shoes? If so, then I’m going to be really worried… and, are there brown recluses in the Sonora desert (Arizona area, or just south of there)? If so, do they like to hide in shoes, too?
Widows & recluses are just about everywhere. As far as widows go they wouldn’t be interested in your shoes unless you left them outside up next to the house for a long time. they tend not to roam once they get their webs in order. Recluses? I don’t know. I’d think your biggest concern would be scorpions. They loves themselfs some shoes to nap in.
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You. Bastard.
There goes any hope of sleep for the next month or two.
Having been bitten by recluses at least twice, one of the bites becoming life-threatening at the time due to a secondary infection - and seeing as my mother just got bitten two times in one night by a recluse and already has serious necrosis, I’d say kill them, kill them all. Glue traps, spider foggers, and cats - the only three ways guaranteed to kill lots of spiders. Just make sure that the cats don’t get in the glue traps…
You and I must be using the term to refer to a different beastie. The critters I’ve always known as wolf spiders (largish brown mottled house-spiders, with thick legs) do live on webs, so unless they’re subcontracting the webs from other spiders, I presume they spin them as well. Is the terminology regional, perhaps? I hail from northern Ohio.
Wolf Spider. Nasty, icky fecking polylegged filth. Bleah. Spideys. Bleah!!