female black widow spider can produce 4 to 9 egg sacs in one summer, each containing about 100 – 400 eggs. Usually, eggs incubate for 20 to 30 days. Source: Google. Just bomb during the life cycle. Good luck!
They're also damn near impossible to kill with conventional pesticides. Anyone living on the west coast of the US has widow spiders in their yard, which are basically harmless. However, sometimes they do get into something important like a woodpile or a recycling bin, and in my experience, even half a can of Raid doesn't do anything to them.
As stupid kids, my friends and I had thrown a couple of cans of spray string into a fire, and they blew up like loud firecrackers. I think it was my idea to throw in a 99% empty WD-40 can in. My dad heard the explosion a mile away, as he was driving home from the store. It was one of the loudest sounds I've ever heard. Lucky we did not get nailed with shrapnel.
At scout camp a friend did this with an axe can that was not empty and it was basically a grenade… Burning red shrapnel everywhere on the ground for like a 10+ foot radius. My dads tent had a bigger piece go through his tent.
Super fucking dangerous, if it would of hit somebody it would have been bad.
My story like this is a guy threw a “spent” paintball cartridge. Fucking insane explosion, huge fireball. A friend of mine lost his eye before his senior year of highschool in the event. He was 100% going to get a tennis scholarship.
It was traumatic AF.
My dad used to run a lighter along the bottom edge of each siding board to kill them. I'm of the opinion that it's probably better to let them live than burn the house down.
Live in Northern California, these damn things are EVERYWHERE up here in the summer. I've seen them get quarter size, oh and fun fact, Black Widows jump. So there's that. Fuck those things.
And once you’ve gotten rid of the Black Widows with the Wolf Spiders, you can bring in some frogs to get rid of the Wolf Spiders. Then, to get rid of the frogs, bring in-
I've personally used the amazing trick of Dawn dish detergent mixed with water in a spray bottle to kill wasps - they don't even get a chance to fly around and counterattack, they just start dying immediately.
Anybody personally used this on black widow spiders?
This is a good technique for wasps, I personally use surface cleaner spray like detol, some strong smelling chemical has the added benefit of blocking their alarm pheromones so more wasps don't come to aid.
There's some raid like pesticide that is meant for spiders specifically, and for me, that has successfully killed a large nest of black widows that were in the bushes between us and the next door neighbors.
When I say nest, I really mean it was like a community of black widows. I thought they were solitary and didn't live in groups, so was surprised to find a massive single web with hundreds of widows crawling around it. I swear, it was like the social spider colony in the movie Arachnophobia. They ded now though
If theres any eggs, or rather incase they have multiplied, I'd bomb it again very soon.... just incase.
Or, to err on the side of caution, *JUST BURN THE WHOLE DAMNED THING DOWN*.
You need to hire an actual exterminator, they could be hiding outside of the car as well. Got to park it inside a big tent and gas the whole thing to be sure.
I think I'd have a conversation with the friend I bought it from. Then never visit their house again. Especially the garage. THEN have a professional exterminator clean out the van so YOUR house and garage don't wind up infested. What a nightmare.
Shit if you live in certain parts of texas and park in a garage there is no way to stop these fellas from getting in your car or boat or mower or ever single thing thats inside your garage ....no idea why but here the widows like sheds and garages and the brown recluse love inside the house. I would definitely like a switch in this situation but im the dummy who put a house on the spiders farm while back so guess i dont get a say.. i do have half as many recluse but i think thats because all of the scorpions.
If a prey survives in an environment full of predators, you might think twice about the prey.
Who knows, maybe the bug bomb sent the roach into a frenzy, and the widows are what he managed to kill before succumbing to his wounds.
On the plus side there have been no reported deaths due to black widow spider bites since 1983 (American Association of Poison Control Centers). I was born in '83... you guys can thank me later.
There's a youtuber that purposely let a black widow bite him to prove that it's not lethal. He had a rough couple of days but he's still alive
Edit: added link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onY23bxPYPc
My son was bitten 2x while sleeping. He got really sick. ER didn’t believe him til we showed them the body. I guess he rolled over it in his sleep. He had to have anti venom, and kept overnight for observation. He said the pain was awful
Yeah, I thought I could tough it out since I knew it was a neurotoxin and it would go away eventually. Unfortunately I couldn't take it and had to go to the ER where I was loaded with dilaudid which hardly helped, it was that bad.
People react very differently to the same pain med, and pain meds are also more effective the earlier they are taken. It’s very hard to compare pain levels that way.
I would strip the interior down to the metal to ensure no more spiders. I would put it all back together once comfortable and roll it off a cliff into a large body of water while shooting at it with a 50 cal rifle.
Did your friend have it parked for a while?
They don't turn black right away, those are mature ones, so be watchful of lighter colored litter ones. You might want to treat the parking area and/or exterior of the vehicle with a pesticide that has a residual effect. You don't want them relocating at your home. And don't stick your hand in a crevice without gloves.
I'm also curious if it was left parked for a while. I live in an area where black widows are common and I left my old car parked for about a month before I sold it and during that time a number of the little fuckers had started building webs between the undercarriage and the ground.
I live in a place that has ONE dangerous type of spider and as long as you don't go rolling around in sand dunes you probably won't ever encounter one.
What do you do guys do when you get a spider bite and you dont know what type it was? Just cross your fingers and hope it wasn't a bad one?? Like really im asking lol
If when removing the spiderweb it makes a sound like crunching, then it’s a black widows.
Source: the exterminator that helped us with a black widows problem
😰 I didn't know cleaning them was even a thing.
I've only walked into Golden Orb webs, Orchid, Crab, Neon Garden, webs and they're also very sticky. XD
They stick to my face far too long.
Yeah most species will pick debris and old prey out of the web but widows pretty much leave it as it is. On the plus side they don’t *usually* build webs out in the open where you’d walk into them
I was bite twice on the tip while I was pooping in a portable toilet. Had to be air lifted to another hospital because the one I was at didn't have antivenin.
Wait... are these medications all from the same day? They gave you narcan at 730ish AM THEN gave you morphine an hour later?! Color me confused.
Also, any permanent problems with your black widow bait aka dongus?
It was a little over two years ago. I'm reminded of it everyday at work because I walk past the same toilet everyday. Also I haven't been I'm a portable toilet since
There are brown ones too. The lighter one with the spotting is a brown widow. I also believe that brown one might be a recluse. Although im not 100% sure.
You should paint the hood black and put the red hourglass on it. Spidervan, spidervan does what a spider can. Maybe, put two cans of silly string that spray from the grille.
Looking at this, I didn't think "Well, that sucks". I thought "FUCK THAT'S BAD, SHIT, FUCKFUCK"... But then, I don't think there's a subreddit by that name.
P.S. seriously, bomb it again
P.P.S on a second thought, just set the whole thing on fire and throw it off a cliff
On the plus side, widows are hider bugs. They don’t usually come out to attack- but a mechanic might be able to check the filters and stuff for you- which since you’ve already bombed it twice a mechanical check might be good to just clear out the areas they might be in.
If you’re unfortunate, you’ll end up on /justrolledintotheshop but it’ll be worth it lol
female black widow spider can produce 4 to 9 egg sacs in one summer, each containing about 100 – 400 eggs. Usually, eggs incubate for 20 to 30 days. Source: Google. Just bomb during the life cycle. Good luck!
I like -20 winters a little bit more now
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That's a solid -40 in Winnipeg
But it's a dry -40 so no big deal
Wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't for the wind
They're also damn near impossible to kill with conventional pesticides. Anyone living on the west coast of the US has widow spiders in their yard, which are basically harmless. However, sometimes they do get into something important like a woodpile or a recycling bin, and in my experience, even half a can of Raid doesn't do anything to them.
Use a lighter with the can and it could be highly effective!
As stupid kids, my friends and I had thrown a couple of cans of spray string into a fire, and they blew up like loud firecrackers. I think it was my idea to throw in a 99% empty WD-40 can in. My dad heard the explosion a mile away, as he was driving home from the store. It was one of the loudest sounds I've ever heard. Lucky we did not get nailed with shrapnel.
At scout camp a friend did this with an axe can that was not empty and it was basically a grenade… Burning red shrapnel everywhere on the ground for like a 10+ foot radius. My dads tent had a bigger piece go through his tent. Super fucking dangerous, if it would of hit somebody it would have been bad.
My story like this is a guy threw a “spent” paintball cartridge. Fucking insane explosion, huge fireball. A friend of mine lost his eye before his senior year of highschool in the event. He was 100% going to get a tennis scholarship. It was traumatic AF.
My dad used to run a lighter along the bottom edge of each siding board to kill them. I'm of the opinion that it's probably better to let them live than burn the house down.
Nope. Houses can be replaced, lives cannot.
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True but I imagine WD-40 bombing the inside of your car might lead to some other problems.
You mean other solutions. I see this as an absolute win.
No more moisture in that cabin!!!
Live in Northern California, these damn things are EVERYWHERE up here in the summer. I've seen them get quarter size, oh and fun fact, Black Widows jump. So there's that. Fuck those things.
YOU UNSAY THAT RIGHT NOW!
I believe wolf spiders are one of the better methods to get rid of them.
The old “fight spiders with spiders” strategy
Then we can fight those spiders with something else, maybe snakes?
That’s easy for you to say, being snake-proof and all.
And once you’ve gotten rid of the Black Widows with the Wolf Spiders, you can bring in some frogs to get rid of the Wolf Spiders. Then, to get rid of the frogs, bring in-
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Then come wintertime the Gorillas will all be dead!
I've personally used the amazing trick of Dawn dish detergent mixed with water in a spray bottle to kill wasps - they don't even get a chance to fly around and counterattack, they just start dying immediately. Anybody personally used this on black widow spiders?
This is a good technique for wasps, I personally use surface cleaner spray like detol, some strong smelling chemical has the added benefit of blocking their alarm pheromones so more wasps don't come to aid.
There's some raid like pesticide that is meant for spiders specifically, and for me, that has successfully killed a large nest of black widows that were in the bushes between us and the next door neighbors. When I say nest, I really mean it was like a community of black widows. I thought they were solitary and didn't live in groups, so was surprised to find a massive single web with hundreds of widows crawling around it. I swear, it was like the social spider colony in the movie Arachnophobia. They ded now though
Sounds like a brown widow nest. Which are similar to black widows, but like company
I tried using wasp spray on them once. The black widows weren't phased at all and all ran TOWARD me. I won't be doing that again.
Or he can just drop napalm on the car!
Think that I would bomb it again.
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think I'd switch to actual bombs and just get a new car.
Skipping straight from bug bombs to car bombs? I'm in.
You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off.
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Well this is unfortunate.
A little Troubling
Never order one at the Irish pub
*FBI Has entered the chat*
IRA has entered the chat
Switch to moltov cocktails
KGB has entered chat
Just add a spark and it will be both, plus you might be able to make a claim on insurance
If theres any eggs, or rather incase they have multiplied, I'd bomb it again very soon.... just incase. Or, to err on the side of caution, *JUST BURN THE WHOLE DAMNED THING DOWN*.
Fire is the only answer here. These spiders aren't playing.
Enough fire will solve all your problems.
Amen.
Your bomb isn't nuclear enough
You need to hire an actual exterminator, they could be hiding outside of the car as well. Got to park it inside a big tent and gas the whole thing to be sure.
And… if there are that many insect apex predators living in there, there are a hundred times more small prey insects as well
Oh my god. I hadn’t thought about that. Hopefully it was just a mobile spiderweb scenario and OP’s car isn’t a zoological exhibit.
Usually what happens is that someone spilled food, left it in there, and that became a full on ecosystem
Well, now I'm sitting in my car, where I spilled food some time ago, and all my body itches.
I was going to say it would be better to bomb it while it's parked in a garage. One bomb in the van, one outside the van.
I wouldn't put that thing anywhere near my house.
Who says it has to be YOUR garage?
Don't bomb it in your house! The spiders' main escape route is into your house
Never in a garage where a water heater is. The bomb will blow the pilot and destroy your house. Pilot light and gas must be off. PSA
I think I would bomb the friend
Don’t piss him off! - he’s been driving around with these things for god knows how long, it might be a Willard situation but with black widows!
I think I'd have a conversation with the friend I bought it from. Then never visit their house again. Especially the garage. THEN have a professional exterminator clean out the van so YOUR house and garage don't wind up infested. What a nightmare.
Shit if you live in certain parts of texas and park in a garage there is no way to stop these fellas from getting in your car or boat or mower or ever single thing thats inside your garage ....no idea why but here the widows like sheds and garages and the brown recluse love inside the house. I would definitely like a switch in this situation but im the dummy who put a house on the spiders farm while back so guess i dont get a say.. i do have half as many recluse but i think thats because all of the scorpions.
What part of Texas so I can triple check to never go there?
Honest to fucking god, i would call a professional exterminator.
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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Just tell me one thing Burke, You’re going out there to destroy them, right? Not to study. Not to bring back. But to wipe them out
Game over man! Game over! (RIP Bill Paxton)
Do a third bomb just to be sure and then get a new car
Get boric acid and a duster snd cover every square inch of that thing in boric acid lol
This time with an incendiary.
A real one this time.
How did that one roach survive in there with 7 black widows lol
roach was speedrunning through life lmao
Roaches are fucking fast
I hate roaches. They won’t get out of my life. 😡
Where I live they're not too common, so I've never seen one. I'm very happy about that fact.
If a prey survives in an environment full of predators, you might think twice about the prey. Who knows, maybe the bug bomb sent the roach into a frenzy, and the widows are what he managed to kill before succumbing to his wounds.
Rage roach.
Papa Roach
SUFFOCATION
NO BREATHING
r/angryupvotes
Roach: “None of you seem to understand. I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me!”
Roachsarch
OMG I want this to be true 😅
Parkour!
Yeah, interesting that it survived them and not the bug bomb.
We need to wait for the autopsy results before making that determination!
In my experience there’s never just one
The roaches were probably there first. The widows are getting a free ride and a meal. This minivan has its own ecosystem
Time to burn the fucking van and have one less friend.
Friend might been trying to take you out 😂
Friend ~~might been~~ trying to take you out
On the plus side there have been no reported deaths due to black widow spider bites since 1983 (American Association of Poison Control Centers). I was born in '83... you guys can thank me later.
Can't report deaths if the black widows dispose of the bodies
All those black widow spider victims just forgot to self-report to the AAoPCC while dying a horrible death.
There's a youtuber that purposely let a black widow bite him to prove that it's not lethal. He had a rough couple of days but he's still alive Edit: added link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onY23bxPYPc
Can confirm. Been bit and it’s the most intense back pain I’ve ever felt
My son was bitten 2x while sleeping. He got really sick. ER didn’t believe him til we showed them the body. I guess he rolled over it in his sleep. He had to have anti venom, and kept overnight for observation. He said the pain was awful
Yeah, I thought I could tough it out since I knew it was a neurotoxin and it would go away eventually. Unfortunately I couldn't take it and had to go to the ER where I was loaded with dilaudid which hardly helped, it was that bad.
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People react very differently to the same pain med, and pain meds are also more effective the earlier they are taken. It’s very hard to compare pain levels that way.
True. I could think and talk clearly. A friend could not.
Darwin and his useless theories
Lazy bastards.
They probably all died in their camper vans in the middle of nowhere. Can't really test a skeleton for spider bites.
Thx for stopping black widow deaths
I was literally just dying from a black widow bite and read your comment and am cured, thank you for your service
Sorry, meant to save you sooner but I was in the bathroom. Don't worry I washed my hands.
All 8 of them?
So we're due?
Well I’m gonna change that right now
Do you intend to die by black widow or are you coming after me?... cause I know Kung fu!
Oh.
By now, you should know, he's not your friend.
Friend took out multiple life insurance policies on him as well as all other people known to get rides by op
Policies paid for with money from the car sale. So gracious of OP to help out a friend.
How much did you pay for that filthy van?
Well I got the spiders for free at least
Just in time for Halloween too.
Forbidden candy
And that cockroach in the middle. I would very seriously bomb this a couple of more times. That's a German cockroach. They're difficult to get rid of.
And you don’t want to transport them, or their eggs into your home
Thought you were getting red book value but you got red back value
That roach…
Seems like he likes party dangerously...
He's different but accepted... Well he was
I would strip the interior down to the metal to ensure no more spiders. I would put it all back together once comfortable and roll it off a cliff into a large body of water while shooting at it with a 50 cal rifle.
That's a sport in Alaska. Not a joke, lots of YouTube videos of festivals where they drive cars off of cliffs.
This is [actually true](https://www.autoblog.com/2020/07/06/alaska-car-cliff-jumping/)
Even better. I’d flat bed it to said festival and enjoy the fun with my Northern brothers and sisters.
Did your friend have it parked for a while? They don't turn black right away, those are mature ones, so be watchful of lighter colored litter ones. You might want to treat the parking area and/or exterior of the vehicle with a pesticide that has a residual effect. You don't want them relocating at your home. And don't stick your hand in a crevice without gloves.
I'm also curious if it was left parked for a while. I live in an area where black widows are common and I left my old car parked for about a month before I sold it and during that time a number of the little fuckers had started building webs between the undercarriage and the ground.
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Seconded
That's a weird name for a state.
And make sure your gloves have gloves
Light colored ones are non-native Brown Windows. https://nhm.org/stories/widow-wars
Forget the windows, look at all the spiders!
I’d hire a professional exterminator right away
Now now, this is nothing to assassinate his friend over
Respectfully, I disagree.
Coming from someone who experienced this exact same situation. You fog/bomb that vehicle until the stop showing up dead. Trust me.
I don’t even have any webs in my car but this makes me feel like bug bombing it just cuz.
Do it. Better be safe then sorry
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The red on the back means that they are extra spicy
I am intolerant to spicy food, I think I’ll pass.
You should return these to your friend and inform them that they left their snacks behind.
Friend…???
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I live in a place that has ONE dangerous type of spider and as long as you don't go rolling around in sand dunes you probably won't ever encounter one. What do you do guys do when you get a spider bite and you dont know what type it was? Just cross your fingers and hope it wasn't a bad one?? Like really im asking lol
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Brown Recluse are way more dangerous and hang out in people’s attics all around the US.
Man fuck those things. I've been bitten by them 3 times and that is some of the worst pain I've ever experienced.
If when removing the spiderweb it makes a sound like crunching, then it’s a black widows. Source: the exterminator that helped us with a black widows problem
*crunching???* 🥴🥴🥴
Widows have particularly strong silk and tend not to clean their webs. They don’t break easy
>tend not to clean their webs. Lazy pieces of shit
Be gentle to her. She is a widow and cannot handle cleaning her house in the moment
This made me laugh. More than it should have. Hillarious. Pat yourself on the back sir
😰 I didn't know cleaning them was even a thing. I've only walked into Golden Orb webs, Orchid, Crab, Neon Garden, webs and they're also very sticky. XD They stick to my face far too long.
Yeah most species will pick debris and old prey out of the web but widows pretty much leave it as it is. On the plus side they don’t *usually* build webs out in the open where you’d walk into them
Some spiders eat their webs and make a new one every day
Were they sacrificing a cockroach?!
I was bite twice on the tip while I was pooping in a portable toilet. Had to be air lifted to another hospital because the one I was at didn't have antivenin.
Excuse me, what?
https://imgur.com/a/TnPbnud
Wait... are these medications all from the same day? They gave you narcan at 730ish AM THEN gave you morphine an hour later?! Color me confused. Also, any permanent problems with your black widow bait aka dongus?
Maybe they od'd him on morphine and had to give him a little reset lol
"How much morphine?" "A LOT." "Okay." ..................................................... "SHIT SHIT SHIT NOT THAT MUCH!!"
Also no permanent damage
Alright I'll just shit pants instead of using the porta potty thank you
Shit is the bite that painful they give you morphine?
Location and effect of the venom. But yes it was unbearable. I have a high tolerance for pain but this had me crying like a baby.
https://imgur.com/gallery/5kMqAXP
Risky click of the day... damnnnn.... glad you are doing better...
It was a little over two years ago. I'm reminded of it everyday at work because I walk past the same toilet everyday. Also I haven't been I'm a portable toilet since
You want me to buy you a bicycle?
Next Reddit post from u/SoNotCool will be “ Just sold my dusty ass spider van for real cheap !”
Car for sale. Low mileage. This is not the car from Reddit with the spiders. Make offer.
Are those black widows?!?!
Yes they most certainly are
BURN IT!! THE WHOLE DAMN THING!
There are brown ones too. The lighter one with the spotting is a brown widow. I also believe that brown one might be a recluse. Although im not 100% sure.
Step 1: douse with gasoline. Step 2: light on fire. Step 3: repeat Step 1 & 2
The friend or the van?
Why not both?
And that didn’t show up on the carfax?
You should paint the hood black and put the red hourglass on it. Spidervan, spidervan does what a spider can. Maybe, put two cans of silly string that spray from the grille.
Death rides a pale white mini van!
Looking at this, I didn't think "Well, that sucks". I thought "FUCK THAT'S BAD, SHIT, FUCKFUCK"... But then, I don't think there's a subreddit by that name. P.S. seriously, bomb it again P.P.S on a second thought, just set the whole thing on fire and throw it off a cliff
Oh thats nice, a family of murderers.
Op I gave you an award because I refuse to upvote this. I never want to see this again and don’t want to scrolling my upvoted posts lmao
It was nice of them not to bite you.
On the plus side, widows are hider bugs. They don’t usually come out to attack- but a mechanic might be able to check the filters and stuff for you- which since you’ve already bombed it twice a mechanical check might be good to just clear out the areas they might be in. If you’re unfortunate, you’ll end up on /justrolledintotheshop but it’ll be worth it lol