Mega Yellowjacket nest in San Jose.

[AspieOtaku]

This mega nest I found, were cool, you guys way up im way down we wont hurt eachother were good.

 

[Kalinychta]

Noooo! It’s sad that the earth is so overpopulated with humans that we can’t just let the hornets have their space. There’s no reason why they shouldn’t be allowed to have their homes/nests where they want and we ours.

 

[AspieOtaku]

Heck yeah. They are our fellow earthlings. Insects are incredible creatures.

Just like black widows as long as they are not in my room and out of the way i respect them, beautiful spiders but very poisonous.

 

[AspieOtaku]

Noooo! It’s sad that the earth is so overpopulated with humans that we can’t just let the hornets have their space. There’s no reason why they shouldn’t be allowed to have their homes/nests where they want and we ours.

This mega nest was in the way and very dangerous it was in human territory and many people would have died if they entered that shed it had to be exterminated.

 

[Kalinychta]

Just like black widows as long as they are not in my room and out of the way i respect them, beautiful spiders but very poisonous.

I live in Oregon and thankfully don’t have to contend with black widows (although I did when I lived in Las Vegas!), but I have a humane bug catcher that I use to escort all trespassing insects and arachids back outdoors where they belong.

 

[AspieOtaku]

When were out of the way from eachother we have peace.

 

[AspieOtaku]

I live in Oregon and thankfully don’t have to contend with black widows (although I did when I lived in Las Vegas!), but I have a humane bug catcher that I use to escort all trespassing insects and arachids back outdoors where they belong.

Some black widows live in Oregon too but mostly southern and east Oregon they like hot weather.

 

[AspieOtaku]

I live in Oregon and thankfully don’t have to contend with black widows (although I did when I lived in Las Vegas!), but I have a humane bug catcher that I use to escort all trespassing insects and arachids back outdoors where they belong.

 

[AspieOtaku]

Black Widows even live in Canada and parts of Washington state.

 

[Kalinychta]

Gah! Now I’m going to become quite neurotic and paranoid. Black widows are the most frightening spiders. But you know, my sister lives in Oklahoma, and the other day she intercepted a brown recluse in her living room heading straight for her puppy’s hindquarters. Holy Hella. Actually the last time I visited her, I beheld a black widow-like tarantula crossing the road on Fort Sill.

 

[AspieOtaku]

This persons crazy but didnt get bit, she wasnt threatened and was calm and wanted to travel, some people keep em as pets.

 

[AspieOtaku]

Gah! Now I’m going to become quite neurotic and paranoid. Black widows are the most frightening spiders. But you know, my sister lives in Oklahoma, and the other day she intercepted a brown recluse in her living room heading straight for her puppy’s hindquarters. Holy Hella. Actually the last time I visited her, I beheld a black widow-like tarantula crossing the road on Fort Sill.

They are scary looking but they arent out to get you or bite you.

 

[AspieOtaku]

A scary looking spider but beautiful at the same time observed at a distance.

 

[AspieOtaku]

Gah! Now I’m going to become quite neurotic and paranoid. Black widows are the most frightening spiders. But you know, my sister lives in Oklahoma, and the other day she intercepted a brown recluse in her living room heading straight for her puppy’s hindquarters. Holy Hella. Actually the last time I visited her, I beheld a black widow-like tarantula crossing the road on Fort Sill.

Lived in texas we had a few of those recluses ugg nasty i squished em.

 

[AspieOtaku]

Tarrantulas are scary looking but harmless they are cute and sweet i love tarrantulas.

 

[AspieOtaku]

 

[AspieOtaku]

Tarrantulas are fragile at times they wont hurt you they are gentle.

 

[Judge]

Living on Guam in the late 50s, the only thing that stung people there were stonefish.

Back then if you stepped on them, you died. But unlike yellow jackets, they weren't mean spirited critters who attacked people for just being there. After all, no one likes being stepped on!

Guess I should be grateful for not encountering "Africanized" Honey Bees in comparison.

 

[Mary Terry]

Gah! Now I’m going to become quite neurotic and paranoid. Black widows are the most frightening spiders. But you know, my sister lives in Oklahoma, and the other day she intercepted a brown recluse in her living room heading straight for her puppy’s hindquarters. Holy Hella. Actually the last time I visited her, I beheld a black widow-like tarantula crossing the road on Fort Sill.

Brown recluses live here, too. Never stick your hand into anything without first looking to see if it is inhabited by some dangerous critter. I know a guy who was bitten on his back by a recluse while he was crawling under his house. He spent a long time recovering from it and had significant necrosis from the bite, leaving a large, deep scar.

I HATE spiders but always try to leave them alone - they go their way and I go mine, unless they are inside the house, then I kill them. When I used to visit my aunt and uncle in Tucson, AZ, I always shook out my shoes before I put them on, and pulled the bed covers back before I got in bed, to flush out any tarantulas and scorpions. My uncle would then catch them and put them out in the desert.

 

[oregano]

Here in Sacramento black widows generally don't venture into human living areas, they tend to stay outside or in easy to reach (for them) spaces that are secluded and where they believe they are unlikely to be harassed by humans. I have at least one widow in my garage right now, I had another one and sprayed it but now I've got another one which makes me think there's a colony somewhere. When I take everything out for the move north this fall I will have to bug bomb the garage to make sure I've got everything. I've had spiders inside my actual living space before, but never widows, as I said the ones here generally avoid humans and only bite if they feel threatened.

There are yellowjackets here too (I'm about 120 miles NE of @AspieOtaku) but their nests are usually small, at least the ones above ground are. Lots of skunks and such around here so probably not many underground nests, we do have underground bees of some kind, but mostly the yellowjackets stay up high out of the reach of yellowjacket predators.

If they infringe in human territory you have to kill the nests because they will return to the same place year after year, that's how you get those giant nests. After my grandparents died we found an abandoned pickup out back that had an engine compartment with a huge nest, they like old cars because the skunks can't reach them and often humans don't bother them.