Deadly little eight leggers all over the place!

[Mercury]

Well, I got a new pet. Not your typical pet. Some people have cats (I got a few), some have dogs, some have reptiles, and some even have tarantula's...Well, I caught me an interesting pet.

Over the course of the last month, there have been a disturbing number of little eight legged creatures running around my house, garage, and yard. I have one of them for a pet now...Well I wouldnt call it a pet, Just say I have it in captivity. We killed two of them already this year, and Three of a diffrent species that are even more deadly.

3 Black Widows in the yard (2 dead), and I squashed 3 Brown Recluses (Got the 3rd one tonight) in the garage.

I find this frieghtining because I have a little sister who plays in the area that two of the Black Widows were found. None of us have ever seen a Black Widow or Brown Recluse till this month...Ever in our lives..and here were teaming with them now.

I've learned alot about them though, after killing the first black widow I started reading up on them and the other poisonous spiders that reside in the south. Some intersting things.

Because of my new found interest/curiosity, the 3rd black widow was captured and now resides in a plastic jar with breathing holes. I hate spiders with a burning pasion, but I find myself strangley fascinated by there beauty and design.

Has anyone else in the South seen a sudden out break of these spiders?? We also have about 20 of those yellow Garden Spiders (Harmless but ugly looking) hanging in our bushes.