Black Windows spiders all over my backyard porch...

dude.. i wouldnt go back out there lmao.. i dont hate spiders but i know my kid play's in the back yards so thats a no can do i would be calling me a really good exterminator for reals. good luck with them..

iv never seen a black widow spider. and i don't think that there in my area. but brown recluse is. iv never been bitten by one, thank god. but one of my friends did a couple years ago when she was helping some of her family move. when she finally came back to school, her arm was still all disclolored and nasty looking. i hope i never have to encounter any of them or any kind of snakes that can kill you.

I remember seeing my first black widow at an uncle's farm in Texas when I was nine. His well had cinderblocks around it, and there in one of the holes in the cinderblock wall was a black spider, and as it moved around I saw the tell-tale hourglass design - obviously I had learned that before, even before my boyscout days, because I knew that was one spider I don't want to mess around with. He did have an abandoned car on his property that had a beautiful yellow-spotted spider inside, about 3 inches across. But that is probably another post ... I saw reports of the brown recluse, I have no idea if I ever actually saw one or not. If I remember correctly, it's just your average brown spider with no distinguishable markings? Until it bites you ...

I live in VA, and we have brown recluses here. I am terrified of spiders and would have totally freaked out seeing as many as you it sounds like you had there.

Wow , i cannot bear to imagine what will I do if i was caught in such a situtation. But the chance of me encountering such a situation is nearly 0% as i am living in Singapore and such occurences have never happened before. And yes , I did heard of how dangerous the Black Widows Spiders are. But it seems the top reason you find the Black Widows Spiders in your house is because they are growing in your junks , so I recommend you to throw away any unwanted items immediately instead of keeping it. The first thing you should do now is not to handle the spiders but throw away ALL unwanted items. Perhaps you may want to wear gloves. After throwing it away , give your backyard a wash and they will probably go away.

We have brown recluses here in PA. Just this fall, two of my classmates were bitten and had to go to the hospital. One was bitten on the neck and within hours was unable to turn their head, the other on the leg and let it go a few days and then it became extremely painful and there was a huge swollen mark about the size of a big softball. Scary.

Where I live we have both the black widow and the brown recluse. I spray the foundation of my home and inside walls of my basement with Ortho Home Defense 4 times a year to ward them off from my house. So far, it seems to work very well. I am not a big fan of creepy crawleys, but worse than that where I live is copperhead snakes. They are highly poisonous and very dangerous. The smaller the snake the more deadly they can be. These snakes are born with a certain amount of venomn, and it does not regenerate with age. So over time, as they have used the venomn they become less dangerous, but if bitten left untreated, it can still be deadly. Those are no fun. The worst part is, they are not like rattle snakes where you get the tale tale sign of a rattle if one is nearby. Talk about scarey!!!

oh my goodness those were the spiders in your backyard? they look scary nga i was looking at the picture and you said you found many wow maybe one hundred or more i bet. when you said about the poison about i was like ay naku kawawa ka man that's good you didn't get a bite from them or you would have to be taken to the hospital di ba? the spiders we have here a big though haha i remember your scared of those here and you screamed loud remember when one was close to your face you almost woke up everyone in the house that night. memories it was then

If that was my backyard I would get up and move or call an exterminator cause there is a nest there and eventually they will move into the house and I think that you should be worried about your saftey. We have brown recluse spiders but I have not had very much contact with them though they seem pretty rare in this area.

As I've also got a large number of other insects on my land (flies, cockroaches, mosquittos and etcetera), I find that having a controlled population of deadly spiders can actually be very beneficial. Luckily, despite their venom being lethal to humans in certain dosages, these particular kind of spiders are rather shy, meaning that if you know how to deal with them and don't disturb them unless when needed, they can be controlled and can be very useful. (For the regard, spiders I'd consider to not be shy include species such as Wolf Spiders, Tarantulas, Garden Spiders and etcetera, while spiders I'd consider to be shy would include Daddy-Long-Legs, Black Widow & Christmas Spiders and etcetera). I always keep a close eye on the spiders on my land to make sure their population doesn't grow too large, but allow them to breed and nest in places that are strategically beneficial for them but not likely to cause anxieties for human inhabitants and visitors etcetera - spiders are not creepy, evil creatures existing purely with the intent to harm humans; they can be very dangerous when provoked (such as when their nests are disturbed), but are generally beneficial for controlling other annoying insects. By the sounds of it, the spider population in your backyard has grown way out of control - I'd recommend that once you've gotten rid of them, you make sure to clear out your yard on a more regular basis to prevent them taking over again; rather than allowing yourself to accumulate a large amount of old boxes and junk that you don't really need, get rid of it straight away. If you've got a lot of stuff, regularily clean it and/or move it around. Spiders love having lots of small, undisturbed, dark places to hide in and built their nests; if there's nothing there for them to hide in or if they can't establish a nest without being disturbed, they'll probably just settle somewhere else, away from your yard and away from you.

We have brown recluses here in PA. Just this fall, two of my classmates were bitten and had to go to the hospital. One was bitten on the neck and within hours was unable to turn their head, the other on the leg and let it go a few days and then it became extremely painful and there was a huge swollen mark about the size of a big softball. Scary.