Come up north, we don't have any cottonmouths! Seriously the weather kind of sucks though. It's been like 60 degree high for a week and no end in sight. Fucking canada.
Black widows and brown recluses, absolutely creep and crawl around the entire East Coast of North America. Even up north well into Canada.
In this day and age, you will most likely survive a bite from either one of them, but you might lose a leg or an arm or a major organ, depending on where they bite you. Especially if it’s a brown recluse.
If you want to vomit, do a Google search for “black widow scars“ or “brown recluse scars“
Brown recluse are up here, but rare, there are no black widows in the upper midwest where I am. Fuck the East Coast, I don't give a shit what they have going on.
But the recluse spiders are way more prevalent in other places, I forget, Missouri I think has a shitolad of them, or Kansas I forget. They mind their own business though, leave them alone and they will leave you alone.
got black widows on the west coast too. Also a fun week we call "spider rain" (you get to run around screaming "i'm covered in spiders!" for fun and this time everyone believes you because they too are running around screaming "i'm covered in spiders!") but those are usually the nice spiders. just wear a hat.
The biggest spiders I've seen in Minnesota are the harmless orbweavers, garden spiders, and barn spiders. The most dangerous are the Brown Recluse and Northern Black Widow, which are both extremely rare due to being at the edge of their range
often. we have black widows, not brown recluses. i'm out by the San Francisco Bay Area in California (so like, that's a wide area. some folks out here might have brown recluses).
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pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works · 46 pts · 65d
Don't forget mosquitoes!
homes@piefed.world · 15 pts · 65d
Nobody forgets mosquitoes
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 65d
trivia: the cottonmouth is so-called because of the startlingly white interior of its mouth, which it opens wide as a warning to leave it alone.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 65d
Definitely not because its bite is plush and soft, like a mouth full of cotton. That'd be a dangerous assumption one could make. 😬
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 21 pts · 65d
Come up north, we don't have any cottonmouths! Seriously the weather kind of sucks though. It's been like 60 degree high for a week and no end in sight. Fucking canada.
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 65d
Ya but y'all got some scary spiders.
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 24 pts · 65d
No poisonous spiders. None that can kill you.
Spiders are our friends besides. They kill parasites. We are in alliance with spiders, long may they live.
homes@piefed.world · 6 pts · 65d
Black widows and brown recluses, absolutely creep and crawl around the entire East Coast of North America. Even up north well into Canada.
In this day and age, you will most likely survive a bite from either one of them, but you might lose a leg or an arm or a major organ, depending on where they bite you. Especially if it’s a brown recluse.
If you want to vomit, do a Google search for “black widow scars“ or “brown recluse scars“
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 64d
Brown recluse are up here, but rare, there are no black widows in the upper midwest where I am. Fuck the East Coast, I don't give a shit what they have going on.
But the recluse spiders are way more prevalent in other places, I forget, Missouri I think has a shitolad of them, or Kansas I forget. They mind their own business though, leave them alone and they will leave you alone.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 64d
got black widows on the west coast too. Also a fun week we call "spider rain" (you get to run around screaming "i'm covered in spiders!" for fun and this time everyone believes you because they too are running around screaming "i'm covered in spiders!") but those are usually the nice spiders. just wear a hat.
we all love suzy out here
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 64d
Do squirrels try to eat your hats? Because i had an incident yesterday that is turning into a song and this thread is describing it eerily well.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 65d
The biggest spiders I've seen in Minnesota are the harmless orbweavers, garden spiders, and barn spiders. The most dangerous are the Brown Recluse and Northern Black Widow, which are both extremely rare due to being at the edge of their range
NeonNight@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 65d
Doesn’t tick and moccasin country also usually feature black widows and brown recluses? The only deadly spiders in the US?
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 65d
I said scary not fuck you up.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 64d
often. we have black widows, not brown recluses. i'm out by the San Francisco Bay Area in California (so like, that's a wide area. some folks out here might have brown recluses).
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 65d
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 64d
DUDE MY SECRET SPOT
Danarchy@lemmy.nz · 9 pts · 65d
Weird term for stoners and little insulting tbh
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 64d
yeah. could you pass the water?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 7 pts · 65d
Only cockroaches and fleas in my basement.
Checkmate losers.
Mr_Fish@lemmy.nz · 3 pts · 65d
So do I. Thankfully, new Zealand doesn't have any snakes or deadly spiders.
Venator@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 64d
I don't think we have ticks either, or at least, it's not a common problem as far as I know...