theres a black widow spider in my room. how should i kill it?

i know these things can kill me if they bitet

jsh020

i know these things can kill me if they bitet

Where do they live. (blsck widows)

Do they live in California ( bay area) or/and Seattle

i know these things can kill me if they bitet

I lol'd out loud

no they can kill you if you dont get immediate attention. yes their is a worse spider that is found in autralia with the longest fangs out of all spiders. cant rmember the name but if it bites you. the fangs go so deep there nothing you can do about it. you just are gaurenteed death unless you amputatejsh020

Yes, they CAN kill you. And as I said, that is EXTREMELY unlikely to happen. Even without any kind of medical help whatsoever, the majority of people bitten by black widows do not die. Nearly everyone who dies is either very young, very old, or very sick.

And that is WITHOUT medical attention. With modern medicine, these spiders hardly ever kill anyone. The chances of dying fom a black widow bite in the modern age in the USA are almost nil. It only happens VERY rarely.

And again, this shouldn't be surprising. Black widows are VERY common, and they have a very notorious tendency to live in the places where humans live. The live in small dark cravices, and are very comfortable living in people's homes. There are a HELL of a lot of black widows living in very close proximity to humans, and even living in people's homes. So...why is it that hardly anyone ever dies from a black widow bite? Because they just aren't that deadly, that's why.

On the other hand, black widows can and probably will do more than "make you sick for a few days." Yes, a black widow bite will almost certainly NOT kill you. But from everything I've heard, getting bitten by a black widow can be UTTER HELL. You won't die (probably). But the chances that you WANT to die just to get the pain to stop are pretty high. It's not "just sick for a few days". It's a LOT worse than that. Seriously, as much as I make light of them because they are just dumb little spiders, you do NOT want to get bitten. A bite won't kill you, but you're gonna be in a world of hurt. Everything I've seen indicates that bites from these spiders can be a hellish experience.

But again, that's not the real issue here. It's still just a spider. Not even terribly fast or agile on the spider scale. Once you've found a black widow, you can kill it easily with absolutely no threat to yourself. The problem is that you have only found ONE black widow. The one he found isn't an issue. He can kill that, no problem. The problem is that that black widow can from an egg sac containing HUNDREDS of eggs. If one of the spiders that hatched from that egg managed to reach adult size in the TC's home, then I guarantee that there are OTHER black widow spiders in his home that he HASN'T found yet. The question here is, where are those black widows hiding? In in shoes? In his bed sheets? Did a black widow start a home in the cables behind his computer? When he breaks out his best suit to go on a date, is there a black widow living inside his closet? The problem is NOT the black widow that he found and now wants to kill. At least he knows where that spider is. The problem is the spiders that ARE in his home, and that he HASN'T found yet. They are there, I guarantee it. If he found one, then there are others. So where are they? In his shoes? In his bed? In his hat? Beats me. But they have to be somewhere. And the black widow spider that he found is the LEAST of his worries.

call an air strike? but first you need to get 5 kill streak before you can an air strike.

The real question is where did it come from. :shock:

I've see a few poisonous spiders around in my bedroom here in Australia - I normally catch them in a tea cup and let them out. I'd recommend trying to find a way to do something similar and let the little fella run wild outdoors :)

[QUOTE="yabbicoke"][QUOTE="jsh020"]

i know these things can kill me if they bitet

jsh020

Hadouken it.

Or if it's on the ceiling shoryuken it.

Obtain another, more poisonous spider and pit the two in a fight to the death.

drown it like the Itsy Bitsy Spider, but instead of water - use plenty of RAID

You could just capture it and put it outside. Everything doesnt need to be killed.

You could just capture it and put it outside. Everything doesnt need to be killed.

TheMightyHoov

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You could just capture it and put it outside. Everything doesnt need to be killed.

Baconbits2004

Put it in a cup then put a piece of paper over the opening. I have done this dozens of times :|

[QUOTE="Baconbits2004"][QUOTE="TheMightyHoov"]

You could just capture it and put it outside. Everything doesnt need to be killed.

TheMightyHoov

Put it in a cup then put a piece of paper over the opening. I have done this dozens of times :|

[QUOTE="TheMightyHoov"]

[QUOTE="Baconbits2004"] Impossible... it's already dead. o.o even so, I can't imagine myself trying keep one of those things alive. I have a dog. o.oBaconbits2004

Put it in a cup then put a piece of paper over the opening. I have done this dozens of times :|

Two Black Widows actually. One was a male and the other a female.

All the other times I have done it is with any other insect I have seen in the house.

I will never play with a Brown Recluse though. I have seen the damage they can do and it isnt pretty.

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[QUOTE="Baconbits2004"] Impossible... it's already dead. o.o even so, I can't imagine myself trying keep one of those things alive. I have a dog. o.oBaconbits2004

Put it in a cup then put a piece of paper over the opening. I have done this dozens of times :|

Again, it doesn't really matter if it's a black widow or not.

Many people have been doing this to spiders for their entire lives, and how many have ever been bitten in the process? Probably not many.

Again, if you EVER get bitten by a spider, one of two things probably happened: Either you were just plain playing with it, or you got bitten because you never even knew it was there.

Black widows aren't particularly fast or agile, as far as spiders go. Catching them and releasing them is really just as safe and easy as flat-out squashing them with a flyswatter.

[QUOTE="Baconbits2004"][QUOTE="TheMightyHoov"]

Put it in a cup then put a piece of paper over the opening. I have done this dozens of times :|

MrGeezer

Again, it doesn't really matter if it's a black widow or not.

Many people have been doing this to spiders for their entire lives, and how many have ever been bitten in the process? Probably not many.

Again, if you EVER get bitten by a spider, one of two things probably happened: Either you were just plain playing with it, or you got bitten because you never even knew it was there.

Black widows aren't particularly fast or agile, as far as spiders go. Catching them and releasing them is really just as safe and easy as flat-out squashing them with a flyswatter.

Geezer I completely agree with you.

I hate when some one sees a spider and their first reaction is to kill it.

Do not burn it with fire.

A book could do the trick.

[QUOTE="Baconbits2004"][QUOTE="TheMightyHoov"]

Put it in a cup then put a piece of paper over the opening. I have done this dozens of times :|

TheMightyHoov

Two Black Widows actually. One was a male and the other a female.

All the other times I have done it is with any other insect I have seen in the house.

I will never play with a Brown Recluse though. I have seen the damage they can do and it isnt pretty.

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[QUOTE="Baconbits2004"] To black widows?Baconbits2004

Two Black Widows actually. One was a male and the other a female.

All the other times I have done it is with any other insect I have seen in the house.

I will never play with a Brown Recluse though. I have seen the damage they can do and it isnt pretty.

Only female Black Widows are poisonous, which are black with the red hourglass.

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I've see a few poisonous spiders around in my bedroom here in Australia - I normally catch them in a tea cup and let them out. I'd recommend trying to find a way to do something similar and let the little fella run wild outdoors :)

HessenKnight

Sure its manly to stand on a spider - get the girls around and watch them shriek with adulation at my bravery...

[QUOTE="Baconbits2004"][QUOTE="TheMightyHoov"]

Two Black Widows actually. One was a male and the other a female.

All the other times I have done it is with any other insect I have seen in the house.

I will never play with a Brown Recluse though. I have seen the damage they can do and it isnt pretty.

TheMightyHoov

Only female Black Widows are poisonous, which are black with the red hourglass.

[QUOTE="TheMightyHoov"]

[QUOTE="Baconbits2004"] I know the brown recluse is very deadly.. but isn't the Black widow rather poisonious too? my dog tends to try biting insects, see. =/ as for sparing bugs, I don't spare flies, since I've seen what they can do if you don't get rid of 'em. And I tend to kill the spiders since I'm far to useless in the area of 'catching' 'em. :P but, with things like lady bugs and Daddy long legs... I just leave 'em. Baconbits2004

Only female Black Widows are poisonous, which are black with the red hourglass.

They look like this and arent poisonous. All they do is mate with the female and then get eaten by her, hence the name :P

This thread is scaring me. Stupid phobia of spiders.

Keep it as your pet.

"Blow it out your ass."

[spoiler] jk :P. Just trap the spider in a cup or jar, then throw it outside. Why kill it when you can just let it go outside. Then again, Black Widows are indoor spiders and will probably make its way back into your house anyway. In that case, you can trap it in a jar, then suffocate it. [/spoiler]

[QUOTE="CRS98"]Kill it with fire.disharmonized

[QUOTE="Baconbits2004"][QUOTE="TheMightyHoov"]

Only female Black Widows are poisonous, which are black with the red hourglass.

TheMightyHoov

They look like this and arent poisonous. All they do is mate with the female and then get eaten by her, hence the name :P

I love how that spider has a red exclamation mark on its abdomen.

Like the MGS series, when you see a red exclamation point that means it knows where you are and it will most likely kill you on sight.:P

don't kill it. there is no reason to kill it.EMOEVOLUTION

Turn your stove on and let all the gas come out. Then light a match and run like hell.

I would spray it with some Hairspray or something and then when it inevitably falls I would crush it with a shoe.

[QUOTE="EMOEVOLUTION"]don't kill it. there is no reason to kill it.Pro_Snuggles

Kill it with fire.CRS98

[QUOTE="Baconbits2004"][QUOTE="TheMightyHoov"]

[QUOTE="Baconbits2004"] I know the brown recluse is very deadly.. but isn't the Black widow rather poisonious too? my dog tends to try biting insects, see. =/ as for sparing bugs, I don't spare flies, since I've seen what they can do if you don't get rid of 'em. And I tend to kill the spiders since I'm far to useless in the area of 'catching' 'em. :P but, with things like lady bugs and Daddy long legs... I just leave 'em. TheMightyHoov

Only female Black Widows are poisonous, which are black with the red hourglass.

They look like this and arent poisonous. All they do is mate with the female and then get eaten by her, hence the name :P

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so they can make more spiders to kill me (lights fire KILL IT!)

Suck it up with a vaccum, then douse the vaccum with gasoline and light it on fire just to be safe.

Can you post a pic? Maybe it's not a Black Widow.

don't kill it. there is no reason to kill it.EMOEVOLUTION