theres a black widow spider in my room. how should i kill it?
please help. i know these things can kill me if they bite so i dont wanna go near it. im tempted to just go get ant killer and spray the little pest
jsh020
Bug spray, a rolled up newspaper...hell, just smash it with your hand. It's just a spider. It's not like it's gonna send out death rays that make your head explode if you come within 20 feet of it. Just kill it like any other spider.
Think of it like this...most people have been killing thousands of spiders since the day they were born. And yet, how many of those people have ever been BITTEN by a spider during an attempt to KILL a spider? I'd wager hardly anyone. Because spiders are weak dumb little sissies, and they arn't gonna do ****. If none of your other attempts to kill a spider have ever gone horribly wrong, then you're safe using the exact same tactics to kill THIS spider. Bug spray works, a shoe works, a flyswatter works, or you could just slap it and then wash its broken carcass off of your hand.
Secondly, the deadliness of black widow spiders is overrated. Even if you get bitten and DON'T seek medical treatment, you still probably won't die. You'll probably just WISH you were dead, for about a week. It'll suck like hell, and probably be the most painful experience of your entire life, but you'll probably survive. And that's WITHOUT seeking medical treatment. If you get bitten and then DO go to the hospital (and you should seek medical treatment if you get bitten), then the chances of you dying become almost nil.
So don't ewen worry about dying. There are black widow spiders all over the USA, a hell of a lot of people encounter them, and yet hardly anyone ever dies from a black widow bite. And out of the tiny number of people who do get bitten, I'll wager that one of the following was the case...either they were trying PLAY with it, or they stuck their hand in some dark crevice and got bitten because they didn't know that the spider was there. Neither of those things applies in your case. You're not trying to catch it or play with it. You're trying to kill it. And you're not gonna get bitten because you got caught off-guard. You already know that the spider is there, so don't worry about that spider. Just kill it.
No, the real thing you have to worry about is the black widow spiders that you haven't found yet. Because if there's one, I guarantee that there are more. Don't worry about killing this black widow spiders. Worry about the spiders that you haven't found yet. Worry about how the next time you put on your shoes, a black widow spider could bite you on the foot. Worry about how there might be a black widow spider in your bedsheets, and it will bite you to death this very night, after you've killed the other spider and then thought that you were safe.
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