Pacific Northwest Gardening: SPIDERS! EVERYWHERE!, 1 by Rarejem

Rarejem wrote:
Lynn, Buggy burrito...have had one or two in my face as well! I second the ICK!

I have a love/hate relationship with spiders. I always have at least a couple of wolf spiders in my greenhouses in the winter, and I feel fortunate to have them in there as they are catching all of bad bugs. I do sometimes however forget to feel fortunate when I run in really quick at night to water and walk face first through the web. The good thing is, after doing the "EWWW is it on me?" dance, most of the time I find him just hanging from what is left of his web with a dirty look on his face.

I did find one that bit me once---must have been hiding in my boots this spring (had to wear tall rubbers for the majority of the spring due to flooding) because he bit the heck out of my shin. After inventing several new dance steps while flinging my boot and slapping at my shin, out he dropped. It hurt so da*@ bad and swelled up immediately that I searched the ground until I found him and put him in a cup, so that if I keeled over and died, at least someone would know why.

I counted eight different full webs just now as I was watering on my deck. This guy is gorgeous, and he is a chubby one.