Spiders

[DirtyLarry]

Oh! I hate spiders!

Around here in the high desert we have a lot of Wolf spiders, Black widows and tarantulas. Luckily, I haven’t found any of these in the house or shop other than a Wolf spider in the shop once. We are now in tarantula migration season so they are often seen in late August through October. They scare the hell out of you when you see them but they are harmless. I read where they live to be quite old, like 20 years, so I don’t kill them…..just lay a pan shovel down and let them crawl on then give them a ride out into the open field next to the shop. Most people had no idea there are tarantulas in Colorado. I grew up in town and had no idea we had these on the outskirts of town until we move out to the boonies.

This one was on our back patio last August.


This one was on the shop window a couple years ago. I had gone into the garage to smoke a cigarette and while lighting it up I looked out the window only to find this big thing staring right at me. I screamed like a little girl as I couldn’t tell if it was inside the shop or outside.


Yet another that was crawling on the house in the fall of 2009


Another in the grass a few years ago