(May 28, 2019 at 8:33 pm)Fireball Wrote: Ya know, I was thinking. You don't have to worry about the spider under the cover until you can't pull the cover off. Black widows build some pretty strong webs. If one mutates under there, then it's going to be game over for you. Use a long screwdriver to lift the cover!
The only way I can describe the underside is that it sort of looks like a waffle. Her big fat self was down in one of the crevices and I was hoping she didn't crawl up over one of the dividers. Husband went in and got some new kind of poison. He filled the section she was in with the poison. She curled up and started to crawl out. He pushed her back in the pool of poison with the nozzle...more than once. They are hearty little shits. I was watching while this white stuff started filling the little crevice...I said - damn, is that poison melting the plastic and he said no it was the web...
So, yeah...they obviously make some strong webs...ICK...again.
It's weird, we moved here in 2006 and while I have found various spiders in the skimmers it's only been in the last few months I have found black widows.
I'm your huckleberry.
