View Full Version : What's in your hive?
nursebee
07-28-2007, 05:04 PM
Or in your equipment you let lay around. I see these things all the time around here, gotta be careful when you pick up something that has been sitting for a while.
http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s275/4nursebee/P1010012-1.jpg
peggjam
07-28-2007, 05:30 PM
I get alot of spiders too, but not those.....thank goodness:).
Michael Bush
07-28-2007, 05:44 PM
I seem to find them most often UNDER the hives or in a vent box that the bees can't get to...
Jeffzhear
07-28-2007, 05:55 PM
What kind of spider is it? I know I wouldn't want to touch it...
bleta12
07-28-2007, 08:25 PM
I am not an expert with spiders, but my 9 year old son insist that this is a picture of a Black widow, "because has the mark of an Hour Glass" he says.
I have not seen those here in CT and NY.
Is my son right?
Gilman
Farmerboy2
07-28-2007, 08:33 PM
It is a Black widow spider.
The bite of a Black widow very poisonous.
drobbins
07-28-2007, 08:35 PM
someone sent me an email the other day with pictures of the aftermath of a Brown Recluse bite
pretty darn awful, flesh rotting away and stuff
careful where you put your hands
Dave
RememberBaker
07-28-2007, 08:46 PM
Yuck! Spiders give me the creeps. Thanks for the nightmares! Ill have to add that to my list of good reasons to stay in Vermont-no hurricanes, no tornados, no forest fires, no earthquakes, no poisoness snakes and no black widows!
George Fergusson
07-29-2007, 05:33 AM
someone sent me an email the other day with pictures of the aftermath of a Brown Recluse bite
There's a woman here in town that is missing a leg as a result of a Brown Recluse spider bite.
It behooves one to know one's local indigenous dangerous/poisonous species..
riverrat
07-29-2007, 07:51 AM
rememberbaker you are missing some of the funner parts of life heck here in kansas they blow the tornado sirens so those not paying attention to the weather can join us rednecks in the know outdoors to watch the action:D what is it y'all do for fun then:cool:
Michael Bush
07-29-2007, 09:41 AM
>here in kansas they blow the tornado sirens so those not paying attention to the weather can join us rednecks in the know outdoors to watch the action
Same here in Nebraska. I've watched several. This one went right over my house:
http://www.extremeinstability.com/04-6-13.htm
We watched it until it was almost overhead and then went to the basement for a while.
Quite an exhilarating day, actually. It touched down about a mile from here.
RememberBaker
07-29-2007, 09:44 AM
Well Riverrat that is the downside to life here, its a little slow. When I was a kid, before the advent of pagers and the like, they would blow the siren on the townhall to call out the fire dept. In the middle of town we have several hundred acres of marsh and when things were slow, kids would light a swamp fire, sometimes a half dozen a day. When they stopped using the townhall siren kids stopped lighting fires. Such a pity. Rob
The snake that poked it's head out of the entrance of a bait hive the other day to check me out was quite a startler! I always shriek and jump, but I really do appreciate snakes, so just left him be.:)