Found one of those and a wolf spider in the kids sand box the other day. Some real nature **** going on out there.

I played golf at Bridges up in Gunter last weekend and those Texas Tarantulas were all over the course. Am I wrong in thinking them being this far north is new?

I see them frequently when I visit family in Montgomery but never around DFW.

Pepper Brooks said:

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I played golf at Bridges up in Gunter last weekend and those Texas Tarantulas were all over the course. Am I wrong in thinking them being this far north is new?

I see them frequently when I visit family in Montgomery but never around DFW.

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I remember finding tarantulas around Abernathy and Amarillo when we'd visit family in the 70's & 80's. I saw a few while hunting Pronghorn outside Stratford last fall too

Pepper Brooks said:

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I played golf at Bridges up in Gunter last weekend and those Texas Tarantulas were all over the course. Am I wrong in thinking them being this far north is new?

I see them frequently when I visit family in Montgomery but never around DFW.

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They range as far north as Kansas, Missouri and Eastern Colorado. I used to find plenty of them 50 years ago north of Greenville, TX and see them frequently here in the Ozarks.

I'm not seeing a pic of a tarantula. I see something that looks worsen.

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Like I tell my kids.

You wouldn't want them coming into our home and squishing you, so we don't go outside into their home and squish them.

AgLA06 said:

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Eliminatus said:

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Like I tell my kids.

You wouldn't want them coming into our home and squishing you, so we don't go outside into their home and squish them.

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What is this, Honey I Shrunk the Kids?

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Like I tell my kids.

You wouldn't want them coming into our home and squishing you, so we don't go outside into their home and squish them.

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I tell my kids that I love them, and want them to live...so use the toe of their boot to make sure the spider is all the way dead.

That's a redback spider not a black widow. They are closely related though. I killed hundreds of black widows in my time in Bakersfield.

Meh, if I see a spider, I just put it outside. If it is already outside, I leave it alone.

Wasps, hornets, etc - on the other hand - I kill with great impunity. Had the propane torch out the other day, and a wasp seemed like it was a little too close, so I roasted his ass on mid-air. It was quite glorious.

Redback Spiders are the Black Widow's Aussie cousin and don't occur in this hemisphere.

Some populations of the Latrodectus species in North America have red marks on their back ( even more display it as juveniles) some local populations have yellow hourglass marks, white stripes and other color variations from the typical shiny black with a red hourglass on the belly.

Is it venomous?

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That's a redback spider not a black widow. They are closely related though. I killed hundreds of black widows in my time in Bakersfield.

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This is a northern black widow

Where are you OP? Australia??
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redback_spider