spiders and snakes (low income, neighborhood, income)

[unconscious]

Originally Posted by steveeo&juju

I read that alaska has no black widows, but what other venomis spiders and snakes are there near anderson. We have an infant sone and are movint there, nearest hospital is in fairbanks so we want to know for a precaution

it's them damed ice worms! if ya can tell the difference from the poison deadly one from the more freindly toe biters youll be o.k. we all carry iceworm repelant.and thank god thier only around in the winter.yep rather meet a grizzly in a berry patch then run into a herd of them iceworms. they get inside your boots. no matter what they some how get in there.

[Rinsler]

Originally Posted by RayinAK

Although there are no poisonous spiders in Alaska, there have been cases where people have been bitten by black recluse spiders that make it up here in shipping containers from the lower-48. Other than that, it's too cold for spiders to thrive during the winter months.

I believe you mean the Brown Recluse.

[Indy Pendance]

Your spelling is awful.

[smokeyta]

Also known as a fiddle back due to the violin shaped on its back. I wish I could say that there were no spiders or snakes where I live but I had to kill a cotton mouth just last summer that was at my front door. I hate snakes and spiders but can deal with snakes better than spiders. Alaska has the mosquitos that can be shot with a 12 gauge. besides tarmington (sp) they are the real Alaskan state bird
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[Alaskapat528]

Originally Posted by smokeyta

Also known as a fiddle back due to the violin shaped on its back. I wish I could say that there were no spiders or snakes where I live but I had to kill a cotton mouth just last summer that was at my front door. I hate snakes and spiders but can deal with snakes better than spiders. Alaska has the mosquitos that can be shot with a 12 gauge. besides tarmington (sp) they are the real Alaskan state bird
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Ptarmigan -

The mosquitos are bad this year, worse than last.

[naturesdreams]

Oh mosquitos... yes I believe that should be the true state bird here in Wisconsin... LOL... must admit ours aren't too bad yet.. oh no I said it now ... I usually have to watch for rattle snakes where I hike in the bluffs on the Mississippi... at least you can usually hear them..
Ptarmigan... Arctic Studies Center love it thanks

[Alice2]

Originally Posted by RayinAK

there have been cases where people have been bitten by black recluse spiders that make it up here in shipping containers from the lower-48.

"Brown" recluse spiders, not "black" recluse. I had an apparent spider bite way back in the 80's that I realized wasn't healing for months on the back of my calf, and a doctor told me it was probably a brown recluse spider. I am certain this bite came from a trip in the woods and not indoors. So I hear that they do exist, and I think they're in the deep woods, too.

Cockroaches are known to infest certain buildings downtown including restaurants. In a couple known apartment buildings they fumigate regularly, like every three months, just to keep them down.

I have seen animals get fleas, although just some animals. I believe 'they say' fleas didn't used to be here, either, that we brought them up from the states.... but I don't know about that.

No snakes, though! ; )

I think of "black flies" like those houseflies that bite, and "white socks" of those smaller flies with white feet. I've never got a permanent scar from a bite except for that brown recluse spider bite, if that is what it was.

We also don't have poison oak or poison ivey, at least not down here in these parts. I ran into some poison oak down in Oregon and it took a good couple months before it was gone away, baaaad stuff. There were no leaves on the bushes so I still really don't know what it looks like.

And Devils Club won't hurt ya unless you grab it with your hand to keep from falling. Owie.

We do have mosquitos. I am still trying to figure out how to keep them off me without using that poisonous insect spray on my skin... But I don't find them that bothersome most of the time anyway.

(I have barely started reading this thread...)

[Alice2]

Originally Posted by Rance

No I don't remember seeing any webs. Do we have funnel web spiders in AK?

The apartment building I used to live in had them in the laundry room. Gave me the ROYAL heebie-jeebies. I hated to even go in there.

[naturesdreams]

Originally Posted by Alice2

We also don't have poison oak or poison ivey, at least not down here in these parts. I ran into some poison oak down in Oregon and it took a good couple months before it was gone away, baaaad stuff. There were no leaves on the bushes so I still really don't know what it looks like.

And Devils Club won't hurt ya unless you grab it with your hand to keep from falling. Owie.

We do have mosquitos. I am still trying to figure out how to keep them off me without using that poisonous insect spray on my skin... But I don't find them that bothersome most of the time anyway.

Poison Oak... yes nasty stuff.... I once camped "under the stars" in an area that looked like they had just cut the brush down in... didn't realize there was poison oak there... I had poison oak so terribly I had 3 different steroids and anti itch/alergy meds... For mosquitoes "el natural"... I eat a lot of garlic... they don't seem to bother me very much.. make sure you brush your teeth a lot too LOL ... at least it works for me. That is why winter hiking can be a blessing........

[stewnsue]

Hmmm, I wonder why the lyrics to the song 'Spiders and Snakes' by Jim Stafford are buzzing around in my head after reading this thread..........and I made a rhyme!!! Tee hee