Posted by:
Elder Berry
(
)
Date: October 18, 2014 01:28PM
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/10/17/neighborhood-concerned-by-increase-in-black-widow-sightings/20980214/I grew up in Utah County in the 70s and 80s. We found black widow spiders every year. I slept in a room often with one and I didn't mess with it. Our house literally crawled with spiders and we had many mice crawling in our house as well.
My parents bought a house bigger than they could afford and kept reproducing to fill it up with kids. Needless to say there were 0 dollars for extermination services. That house hasn't seen an exterminator in going on 50 years if ever.
I remember several summers when we caught a black widow in a jar and we showed other neighbor kids our find. We were told by our parents to leave them alone but we didn't. None of us ever got bitten.
I chalk this up to arachnophobia as people seem to have become more fearful of things. I doubt it would have made the news when I was a kid.