Machine Shop has Cobwebs!

[boslab]

My brother in law had a fruit veg and potato wholesale business, as kids we used to go on the lorry to Barry docks to the geest shipping banana wharf, bananas were in long boxes then. Wooden with a lid and wired shut.
the orange boxes had 2 hand holes, one each end.
I was sternly informed by a docker “ never stick your fingers in them holes, there’s snakes scorpions tarantulas banana spiders and F knows what in there, they bite”
scared the **** out of me.
the guys in the warehouse had to take the hand of bananas out and hang them on rails with a s hook to ripen, somthing to do with ethylene gas.
bites were regular apparently, nooo thank you.
the banana rooms looked like a walk in freezer that wasn’t cold.
scary
mark

[Black Forest]

I was bitten by a brown recluse spider in the forearm. I had a big black hole in my arm and it took nearly a year to heal up. I know of a man in Texas that can't use his indoor riding arena because of brown recluse spiders infestation. The building is too large to tent and fumigate. I believe he tried spraying but it didn't work.

[thin-woodsman]

Was going to commiserate and say yeah, tree-clearing/lumber-making and work on a potential startup has kept me out of the shop all summer, pretty much until the middle of last week. Spiders set up shop in the shop. Even the box delivered in July with the new solenoid for the downed woodchipper had cobwebs on it when I went to install it.

But sheesh! Spider thread! Nuthin' to add to that

[Cheap Jon]

I took a good look around the shop, lots of cob webs and spiders. When I was a kid my grand mother lived in town, the house next door had a huge yellow spider in the bushes in front of the house every summer. It must have been 2" long, I have not seen one of them in years. But just remember as cold weather gets here Mouse season starts.

Jon
SW Mi

[plunger]

When I was an eighteen year old youngster I made a lot of money from a pet spider that I found. It was during the S African , Angola border war .I was far from home and we would get very bored sitting around the base. . .

I found this viscous red roman spider and for fun put it in a bucket with a scorpion. To my shock they tried to get away from each other then faced off and the spider killed the scorpion ,bit its tail off and sucked it dry.

That's when the betting started and I won every time for quite a good run. I started getting cocky and overconfident with my rambo spider .Then one day a scorpion zapped my spider between the eyes and my good betting run came to an end .

[boslab]

And giant centipedes aren’t the good looking part of the insect world, giant ginger monsters yeuch
I can’t imagine living with all the snakes and spiders and scorpions, it’s bad enough with politicians
mark

[J Tiers]

The little centipedes, only a couple inches long, are good critters. They apparently are predators on most any other "bugs", so spiders and centipedes are "good'.

I had wondered what was dismembering and eating the "waterbugs" (a form of large cockroach), but it must have been the centipedes. There are no mice, and the waterbugs are too large for spiders to handle.

[boslab]

It got worse, my daughter wants me to take her to see the spider farm, I’m worried that she might want to bring one of those monsters home.
I don’t fancy a 8 legged freak in the house that size, I thin I’ll take her to the cats home or dog pound in preference.
I don’t think I can sideline her as she’s been into bugs since a kid, if they move in I’m going to ask the kids to stick me in an old farts home early.
Mark

[DR]

My brother in law had a fruit veg and potato wholesale business, as kids we used to go on the lorry to Barry docks to the geest shipping banana wharf, bananas were in long boxes then. Wooden with a lid and wired shut.
the orange boxes had 2 hand holes, one each end.
I was sternly informed by a docker “ never stick your fingers in them holes, there’s snakes scorpions tarantulas banana spiders and F knows what in there, they bite”
scared the **** out of me.
the guys in the warehouse had to take the hand of bananas out and hang them on rails with a s hook to ripen, somthing to do with ethylene gas.
bites were regular apparently, nooo thank you.
the banana rooms looked like a walk in freezer that wasn’t cold.
scary
mark

Years ago we found what I think might have been a giant cockroach in a bunch of bananas from the grocery store.. It was a little more than 2" long, it may not have been a cockroach, definitely something we never encounter in the relatively bug-free Pacific NW. Scared the hell out of my wife (and me too). Quite a puzzle how it had managed to be undetected in all the handling the bananas had coming from South America.

Speaking of bananas we only buy organic. Reading about the very toxic sprays used in non-organic banana growing it makes you wonder whether they're safe to even touch. Now I read the drug cartels are trying to take over the banana business as they are doing with avocadoes. Somehow it seems the cartels won't be overly concerned with ensuring their organics are truly organic.

[boslab]

I agree, plus billy gates and his coating for veg and fruit, that stuff can’t be safe?.
fruit and veg dosent taste the same as it used to, I read a paper that the soil they continually grow on is missing all the minerals now, it’s barren soil, empty food I think.
mark

[psomero]

I was bitten by a brown recluse spider in the forearm. I had a big black hole in my arm and it took nearly a year to heal up. I know of a man in Texas that can't use his indoor riding arena because of brown recluse spiders infestation. The building is too large to tent and fumigate. I believe he tried spraying but it didn't work.

You have to go John Goodman and blowtorch that mug at that point...