After 20 years in this business you start to connect the dots, or bites, as it were.

My wife and I walk the dog by a year around creek that looks pretty fast and clean. If there is absolutley no wind, small black “fruit flies” appear in the shadows and buzz around our heads. These are midges or gnats or very small black flies, I am not sure which. But I know one thing about them, they bite. You almost never notice the bite and the swelling and itching does not start untill the next day. The same (bite) thing happens when we work in our shady back yard around dusk on a windless evening.

The key conditions to get bitten by these pests are clean flowing water near by, shade, and no wind.

The welts appear so long after the bite that people think they hhave gotten bitten in their bed that night. They never connect the dots…………

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A doctor said that this is the bite of a spider. Note that there are two distinct bite areas.

This young girl was sleeping in the lower level of her parents expensive home.

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The hobo spider, Tegenaria agrestis, is a European immigrant that has only been implicated as a potentially poisonous spider in the United States since the 1980s. Another name commonly used for this spider is the aggressive house spider (although this spider is not aggressive). However, in seeking name stability, the American Arachnological Society has chosen “hobo spider” as the spider’s official common name. The name “hobo” is linked to the spider’s presumed spread to distant cities via the railways.

The hobo spider does not live in California and has never been documented in the state. There are many cases, however, of common related spiders being misidentified as hobo spiders by the general public and even by pest control operators. In North America, this spider lives in the Pacific Northwest from British Columbia east to Montana, Wyoming and Colorado and south through Oregon and northern Utah, so it is conceivable that its range may extend into the northernmost areas of California. However, there have been no documented verifications by a qualified arachnologist (spider specialist) to date.

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If you believe you may be having these as unwanted guests in your home and need help in their removal give us a call.

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Click the title to see the Giant House Spider

August finds these love struck spiders wandering around in homes here in the Northwest. This is a male Giant House Spider. He has abandoned all caution to look for a mate. These are considered harmless to humans and may be very beneficial. Some experts say that they eat Hobo or Agressive House Spiders. In any case this guy had to eat a lot of other spiders to get this big.