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		<title>Mystery Bites (it probabally wasn&#8217;t the spider)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:05:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 absolutely no wind, small black &#8220;fruit flies&#8221; appear in the shadows and buzz around our heads. These are [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After 20 years in this business you start to connect the dots, or bites, as it were.</p>
<p>My wife and I walk the dog by a year around creek that looks pretty fast and clean. If there is absolutely no wind, small black &#8220;fruit flies&#8221; 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 until the next day. The same (bite) thing happens when we work in our shady back yard around dusk on a windless evening.</p>
<p>The key conditions to get bitten by these pests are clean flowing water near by, shade, and no wind.</p>
<p>The welts appear so long after the bite that people think they have gotten bitten in their bed that night. They never connect the dots&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Hobo Bite?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:54:29 +0000</pubDate>
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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. She awoke with these marks on her leg. My sources say that this is almost certainly not a spider bite.
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<p>A doctor said that this is the bite of a spider. Note that there are two distinct bite areas.</p>
<p>This young girl was sleeping in the lower level of her parents expensive home. She awoke with these marks on her leg. My sources say that this is almost certainly not a spider bite.</p>
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		<title>The Hobo Spider</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://naturefirstpest.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/hobospider.jpg" alt="hobospider.jpg" align="left" />The hobo spider, <em>Tegenaria agrestis</em>, 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 &#8220;hobo spider&#8221; as the  spider&#8217;s official common name. The name &#8220;hobo&#8221; is linked to the spider&#8217;s  presumed spread to distant cities via the railways.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>To read more about this insect click <a href="http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7488.html" target="_blank">here </a></p>
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		<title>Late summer visitor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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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 [...]]]></description>
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<p>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.</p>
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