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Subject:Re: Arachnid Hitchiker
From:Jonce Fancher
Date:Tue, 1 Jul 2014 21:18:10 -0400

Reminds me of back in the early early 90s.
My room mate and I grabbed some VW Parts from under his house and
loaded them up in my 64 VW double cab the day before the VW Swap meet.

got up in the AM about 4:30 and drove from San Diego To LA. Got in at
4:30 with a few spider webs and thought nothing of it.

Well through the whole trip we had more then our fair share of
encounters with plenty of the widow spiders. No Bites but we were
jumpy most of the day when we finally got up there. Drove in the dark
the whole way up freaked out.
after that one night we went on a part search under his house and it
was crawling with black widows. Decided we needed to Bug Bomb it to
go in again.

Also, After moving back to Michigan I purchased a 71 bus and had is
shipped from Holister CA to MI. Got it hear and sat it in the pole
barn. Came out a few days later to look at it and it was riddled with
BIG Black widow stow aways.

All in good fun.

Jonce

>For a couple of months, I've been ignoring the spider that set up shop
>in the corner of the kitchen cabinet face.  I figure spiders are useful
>and mostly harmless.
>
>Sunday I thought I'd take a close-up photo, just for fun.  When I blew
>it up, I realized things would have to change.
>
>Warning: Don't open the link unless you're prepared.  I can't look at it
>myself.
>
>http://www.sbw.org/petspiderinwesty.jpg
>
>Went through the camper with a vacuum and Raid today.