First Black Widow encounter. Welcome to Arkansas.

[N9BOW]

She was dead outside my garage door from the insecticide treatment… One down… waiting on the tarantula and scorpion and the water moccasin sightings (not in a hurry)… And all the other nasty stinging biting creatures that come with this little bit of paradise.  In the process of rolling her over, she broke in half…, But I thought it was a black widow and the only way to be sure it was to check the abdomen

[Ham]

Let me know when you want to see more. I believe I can wrangle a few out of every woodpile. 
Want Brown Recluse? Put a bunch of cardboard boxes in Your garage. 
skunks will be Super active in October. 
copperheads will be in your yard from time to time after dark, but unlikely you'll see cottonmouth .

tarantulas are a harbinger of fall. You'll see makes hoping to get Lucky when they Get Lucky. They are harmless and on a one way trip. No adult males survive winter. 
We can talk flying stinging things later.

[N9BOW]

The neighbor showed me a picture of a cream colored female (I think) in her flowerbed. The folks I bought the new house from said they only saw it once but the yard was full of the boys crawling towards the river in the fall (old golf course) to get lucky. Not sure I am looking forward to that... especially since my cat likes to race into the house with her harvest (alive) in her mouth trilling all the way.

She just doesn't get it when I don't appreciate the gesture. I've seen several Brown Recluse and had a close call in Indiana with one letting me know I should not have grabbed her dried flower arrangement in the shed.

My friend lost a good bit of his calf muscle from a recluse bite... (dont put your bare feet into boots was the lesson I learned and clap them out before donning them)

[snagged in outlet 3]

A guy at my office had just gotten his patio cushions out of storage and sat on his patio chair in his skivvies having a smoke.   He got bit by a brown recluse on his "pouch".   Had part of it removed along with some of his taint and balloon knot.    I call him "spidey" now.😂   No pictures though @Johnsfolly

[Ham]

11 minutes ago, snagged in outlet 3 said:   I call him "spidey" now.😂   No pictures though @Johnsfolly

Dang that's harsh

[N9BOW]

Well I don't ever wish to top that poor dudes "Skivvie lounging, smokebreak, pouch bitten, taint removal partial pucker recluse experience...." ouch!
 

[fshndoug]

someone should have sucked out the poison.

 

[N9BOW]

28 minutes ago, fshndoug said:

someone should have sucked out the poison.

 

you first

[BilletHead]

1 hour ago, N9BOW said:

you first

                 Sorry buddy you are going to die.

[Terrierman]

These guys are a lot of fun too.