Importation of some texas critters

[powerboatr]

my better half steam cleaned the carpets in the RV yesterday, as part of our DEEP cleaning from the texas trip....
she found TWO big/large/ferocious/FAST spiders hiding under the sofa and in the bedroom closet,
do we need to report this to fish and wildlife ? or ship the bodies back to Texas?
geuss they stowed aboard during the rain storm , no wonder we were 200 lbs over weight
trust me it was a quite a funny ending to a nervy day

 

[Crumm]

I would not advise reporting them. They are probably a protected species and you would end up in prison for killing them.

 

[Tbar]

What kind were they.................

tarantula ???
wolf spider ???
daddy long leg ???



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[powerboatr]

What kind were they.................

tarantula ???
wolf spider ???
daddy long leg ???



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wolf spider ??? very hairy with BIG eyes did you know that daddy long legs are poisonous to humans and others, but their teeth are to small to hurt us. I think they are cool , especially the way the sneak up on you and look over your shoulder when your under a house

 

[Tx_Atty]

weren't brown recluse were they? Hope not but not likely in the house, you hope! They are nasty little beasts.

 

[powerboatr]

oh now we know recluses quite well, thats one nasty little P.O.d bug.
just run of the mil garden variety LARGE wolf field spiders with VERY large eyes as my wife put it they were about the size of the bottom of a coffee cup with the legs. they stood no match to a woman with a fly swatter

 

[whatabudro]

Robert, a few years ago my neighbor had a pet garden spider on the side of his house that we fed often while we did our KING OF THE HILL impersonation in the driveway. My wife hated it and wanted it gone. It was the size of small lemon. The next weekend my buddy an I were cuttin somew fire wood and found a bigger one, the size of a softball, and we took it home with us. We moved the little buddy to the other side of the house, and put the big one on its web. Then I went inside and got my wife, said LOOK HOW MUCH IT GREW IN ONE WEEK.

 

[acjjkamp]

^^ oh that's good

 

[acjjkamp]

we go out to the hills and desert here, nothing but tarantulas and rattlers...

nothing like stepping out of the rig and having a rattler warming in the sun right at your steps

 

[Tx_Atty]

hell, he's lunch...(the rattler that is)