About them west coast spiders...

[Badawg]

From The SD Union: http://video.signonsandiego.com/vmix_hosted_apps/p/media?id=2812750&item_index=&genre_id=00004741

Brown widows are from Africa, carry venom twicew as powerful as a black widow, but only inject about half the amount. This one's for you, Mitch!

[valerian]

Ugh! That makes my skin crawl. Now my leg is itching too.:eek:

[welderguy]

Hopefully they will all be killed before they get to Texas.

[mitch.chesney]

Yeck, I guess I'll have to watch where I sit.

I also found this site (http://www.venombyte.com/), which is perfect for people who are in my situation -- moving to a new area and wanting to know what's going to bite them in the ***. Aside from the distribution map being chunked into whole states rather than overlay distribution regions, it's really quite good.

[Badawg]

The truth is they are big fraidys and won't bug you unless you "git all up in their bizness".

And I have found that chickens do a wonderful job of, err... Cleaning them up.

[RangerXanatos]

+1 on the chickens. When we lost ours, our tick population boomed.

[trax]

The truth is they are big fraidys and won't bug you unless you "git all up in their bizness".

And I have found that chickens do a wonderful job of, err... Cleaning them up.

which is why a live chicken should be part of every survival kit. :D Is there any way to reassure those big fraidys ahead of time that I won't be "gittin' all up in their bizness" Badawg?

[Badawg]

Lol, Trax... Look before you put your hand in their web? Live chicken in the kit though??? I dunno, I know they like powerbars...

[trax]

Well I was thinking the other obvious advantage to the live chicken in the kit is the availability of a lovely fresh meal. But with my luck I'd just be lickin' the chicken bits off my fingers and some nasty-azzed old spider would come along and ...no attack chicken! DAMMMM!