# Black widow spiders found in WNY **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450 **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic **Created:** [November 11, 2005, 7:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450 "2005-11-11T07:21:51Z") **Posts on this page:** 20 **Page:** 4
### Author: ![Jack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jack/32/7613_2.png) [@Jack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jack) #### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 11:32am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450/61 "2005-11-11T11:32:17Z")
> [@ghettostyleTA](#): > > EDIT #2: jack link up your shit too, i have no clue what you’re talking about but i totally wanna know now I think it got deleted. Everyone basically jumped on his case calling him a panzy… but I actually saw the guy… and it makes Beck seem even more like a panzy. ---
### Author: ![Diesel](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/diesel/32/7313_2.png) [@Diesel](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Diesel) #### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 12:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450/62 "2005-11-11T12:41:59Z")
This thread sucks. I’m not going to be able to sleep tonight :ohnoes: ---
### Author: ![slowtalon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/slowtalon/32/7205_2.png) [@slowtalon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/slowtalon) #### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 12:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450/63 "2005-11-11T12:58:16Z")
The job im working on here as tons of dead brown recluses. The kid i work with said there are black widows there too and they kill the BR’s like seriously they are all over the walls and floors dead. Ill have to try and get a pic, i didnt know what they were at first but my boss was like “hey if you see one of them things moving dont fuck with it or your skin will start to fall off.” Fuck floridas spiders. ---
### Author: ![sureshot](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sureshot/32/7578_2.png) [@sureshot](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/sureshot) #### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 1:02pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450/64 "2005-11-11T13:02:59Z")
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### Author: ![DJ\_X-StatiK](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/dj_x-statik/32/7579_2.png) [@DJ\_X-StatiK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/DJ_X-StatiK) #### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 1:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450/65 "2005-11-11T13:19:12Z")
spiders are gross…i say they should all be squished, ugH. ---
### Author: ![Rx3](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rx3/32/7194_2.png) [@Rx3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Rx3) #### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 1:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450/66 "2005-11-11T13:24:14Z")
I think sureshot is joking. Either that or he’s :smash2: Black Widow \> Brown Recluse, but Brown recluse can usually be found living together. Slick Rick da Rula’s story: When I was stationed in Quantico, we had a guy get bit by MANY (i.e. they stopped counting the bites after 30 or so) Brown Recluse spiders, who setup a colony **along the brick wall of the barracks**. The dumbass left his window open that night for some reason, even though there was strict policy to keep it closed and they ate him alive while he was asleep. They had to airlift him to Bethesda Medical, and he almost died. Brown recluses do not fuck around. ---
### Author: ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK) #### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 1:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450/67 "2005-11-11T13:27:39Z")
Ummmm didnt mythbusters find that it WASNT able to bite through your skin :bloated: ---
### Author: ![Jack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jack/32/7613_2.png) [@Jack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jack) #### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 1:32pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450/68 "2005-11-11T13:32:50Z")
they have toxic fecal matter… which burns the skin… think mighty taco ---
### Author: ![Rx3](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rx3/32/7194_2.png) [@Rx3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Rx3) #### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 1:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450/69 "2005-11-11T13:34:45Z")
> [@OfficerK](#): > > Ummmm didnt mythbusters find that it WASNT able to bite through your skin :bloated: No. Also, from what I remember it wasn’t the venom from the bite that was the problem, but some kind of bacteria or something also accosiated with the bite. I remember one of the Naval doctors explaining it. They also said people react differently, some it will have no effect, and others will be all screwed up. ---
### Author: ![TrueBlue](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/trueblue/32/7245_2.png) [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue) #### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 1:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450/70 "2005-11-11T13:40:33Z")
> [@Rx3](#): > > Brown recluses do not fuck around. word. not convinced? here’s what you can do: copy this phrase: brown recluse bites into your google taskbar. go to images (make sure your safe search is off). report your findings here. 😛 ---
### Author: ![Jack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jack/32/7613_2.png) [@Jack](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jack) #### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 1:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450/71 "2005-11-11T13:46:16Z")
I accidentally searched for _traitepres_ ---
### Author: ![King](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/king/32/7329_2.png) [@King](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/King) #### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 2:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450/72 "2005-11-11T14:08:06Z")
just a little reminder of a recent event [http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3331&highlight=spider](http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3331&highlight=spider) ---
### Author: ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK) #### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 2:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450/73 "2005-11-11T14:19:24Z")
> [@Rx3](#): > > No. [http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.htm](http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.htm) There is no reference to any pholcid spider biting a human and causing any detrimental reaction. If these spiders were indeed deadly poisonous but **_couldn’t bite humans_** , then the only way we would know that they are poisonous is by milking them and injecting the venom into humans I am never wrong, tsk tsk tsk. Do not doubt my all knowing pwner again! ---
### Author: ![LAFENGAS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/lafengas/32/7573_2.png) [@LAFENGAS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LAFENGAS) #### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 2:22pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450/74 "2005-11-11T14:22:14Z")
> [@sureshot!](#): > > yes because this is the season where spiders are more drawn to our warm bodies during nighttime > > studies show more people living with spiders in their sheets during the winter months that any other it’s a good thing i’ve been building up an army of my little “defense crabs” in my bed sheets. The spider(s) won’t know what hit them when i send an all-out-scabie-blitzkreig! ---
### Author: ![LAFENGAS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/lafengas/32/7573_2.png) [@LAFENGAS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LAFENGAS) #### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 2:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450/75 "2005-11-11T14:26:19Z")
> [@OfficerK](#): > > [http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.htm](http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.htm) > > then the only way we would know that they are poisonous is by milking them and injecting the venom into humans :cjerk: that’s like an engineer building a bridge and sitting back and saying… “that should hold”. believe it or not, there are ways to test things without putting human lives at risk. ---
### Author: ![Rx3](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rx3/32/7194_2.png) [@Rx3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Rx3) #### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450/76 "2005-11-11T14:31:42Z")
> [@OfficerK](#): > > [http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.htm](http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.htm) > > There is no reference to any pholcid spider biting a human and causing any detrimental reaction. If these spiders were indeed deadly poisonous but **_couldn’t bite humans_** , then the only way we would know that they are poisonous is by milking them and injecting the venom into humans > > I am never wrong, tsk tsk tsk. Do not doubt my all knowing pwner again! You might not be wrong, but you are stupid, since you linked an article and referenced info about **DADDY LONG LEG SPIDERS**. We are talking about _Brown Recluse_ Spiders, are we not? 😉 Wonder what would happen if you searched snopes with the correct spider name? **EDIT: Let me save you the trouble:** > As Phillip Anderson, a Missouri physician who specializes in brown recluse spider bites, explained in an article for the medical journal Missouri Medicine, “Almost all brown recluse spider bites heal nicely in two to three months without medical treatment at all. Also the long-term medical outcome is excellent without treatment.” Furthermore, says Anderson, “We are not aware of any verifiable deaths caused by the bite of the North American brown recluse spider.” (He noted that several deaths from such wounds “had been reported in medical journals, but none of the reports is convincing.”) He also reported that out of “about 1,000 credible recluse spider bites,” he was only aware of “about a dozen cases of impressive, sustained hemolysis.” **Now why would a doctor comment on “bites” and how they heal if it was impossible to be bitten? Why are bites documented in medical journals? Things that make you go hmmm…** **Since I’ve SEEN it firsthand, and have REAL LIFE EXPERIENCE with the little arachnids, I’ll continue to insist that they bite, and are far from harmless. 🙂** ---
### Author: ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK) #### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 2:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450/77 "2005-11-11T14:31:51Z")
lol like sticking your arm into a chamber full of daddy long legs, and not having a single bite on your because the spiders are not able to break our skin? [sarcasm] and also this is the ONLY reason Im pro stem cell research, so we can test for adverse effects of poisons [/sarcasm] ---
### Author: ![OfficerK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4da419/32.png) [@OfficerK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/OfficerK) #### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 2:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450/78 "2005-11-11T14:34:46Z")
> [@Rx3](#): > > You might not be wrong, but you are stupid, since you linked an article and referenced info about **DADDY LONG LEG SPIDERS**. We are talking about _Brown Recluse_ Spiders, are we not? 😉 Ummmmmmmmmmm wasnt my first post in regards to the mythbusters where they did the tests on daddy long legs? I rests me case, I do. ---
### Author: ![Rx3](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rx3/32/7194_2.png) [@Rx3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Rx3) #### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 2:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450/79 "2005-11-11T14:37:09Z")
Exactly. The thread started with Black Widows, and comparing them to Brown Recluses. You come out of the blue with Daddy Long Legs. Thanks for resting your case. :roll: Now maybe we can get back to whether black widows and brown recluses are dangerous. ---
### Author: ![Fetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fetter](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Fetter) #### Post date: [November 11, 2005, 2:42pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450/80 "2005-11-11T14:42:18Z")
> [@SC\_Steve](#): > > man, I hate spiders… so creepy :word: they creep the crap out of me [Previous page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450.md?page=3) [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/black-widow-spiders-found-in-wny/4450.md?page=5)