I was told that there are BIG spiders there

[sweetwater]

Thanks everyone. You have all given me great information. I love reading everyone's responses. Linda Bowman

[Carolann R]

Oh man, Glen - it's a joy to read your "stuff." Haaahaaa!!!

We saw a cane spider while staying in Orchidland when we chose our house, but never since. I heard they chase you down LOL!!!

Have seen several pedes, but rarely in the house - we find 'em dead on the garage floor - I think the PH in the cement kills them.

Carrie

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[Beachboy]

yes Cane Spiders are rather large, and yes they can leap pretty far too. In a head to head competition in the long jump against carl Lewis in his prime...I'd take the Cane Spider! But I have yet to see one that bites!

"When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?"


George Carlin

[missydog1]

>>>Have seen several pedes, but rarely in the house - we find 'em dead on the garage floor - I think the PH in the cement kills them.

That is definitely not true. Centipedes love to hang out on concrete slabs and are quite at home in garages. When they're found dead it's usually because somebody applied insecticide.

The thing about centipedes is they will come into your house, into your bed, and bite you. Or hide out in your clothes, shoes, hats ... and bite you. They will come in through cracks, under screen doors. They will live inside your walls and come in if you take off an outlet plate or take off a piece of trim, any puka. They come up through the drains even.

Once that has happened to you, and if you get bitten in the middle of the night while you're sleeping, you will fear and loathe pedes.

My arm swelled up, it was super painful for two hours, I got hives and had to take prednisone, and I was told 50% of their bites will turn into a nasty staph infection. The venom stays in the tissues and can continue to react for a whole month.

While they are not as bad as a brown recluse bite, perhaps, they are quite bad.
The cane spiders look ugly but I have no fear of them. I fear things that can cause a lot of pain and give me an infection ... and that crawl into my bed at night!

[hooligal]

hI was getting crown flower cuttings at Kona K-Mart last weekend & thanks GOD hubby noticed a red pede perched on a leaf...when we looked closely there were pedes everywhere on the hedge! I would have gotten nailed for sure if he hadn't seen them right off the bat.

Like KathyH, I was bitten in my bed. By a *baby* pede. The pain woke me up out of a dead sleep. It was painful for 6 hours - too painful to lean against any part of the left side of my body...easily a 18" radius of ouch from the bite site. it SUCKED. It took me a good 2 weeks to not come flying out of bed whenever something touched me - even my own darn hair! What totally sucked is that i no longer have big mainland shoes to squish them with. I jumped out of bed, knocked it off, then instinctively grabbed a 'shoe'. TUrned out to be my thin, highly dished old slippah. I whacked the pede & it simply pissed him off. Pshaw to that flimsy slippah! I think I ended up killing him with a bottle of shampoo []

I was told that next time, take a regular hibiscus bloom, crunch it in my hand till it was sticky, then rub it on the bite. It's supposed to help with the pain a little. Note that double or fancy ruffed hibiscus doesn't work. I've used this on all my other bites & it rocks. Takes the sting and itch right of mosquito bites. Hope I'll never have the opportunity to try it on another 'pede bite!

I think mine hitched a ride in my hoodie from the Hot Ponds. I put my hoodie on the wall, but it got knocked onto the ground. I put it on, went home & went straight to bed. I think it crawled off the hoodie, into my hair, then made its way out of my hair into my bed. At least that's what I tell myself to let me sleep at night - I'd be a perpeutal insomniac if I thought it got there just by crawling in the door!! Plus auntie & uncle spray the perimiter of their house every month & I'd never seen one in the house in 9 months of living there. I'm not big on chemicals, but after that bite, I'll risk my health to kill those buggahs with pesticide.

I've been bitten by Black Widow and Brown Recluse - not fun & that centipede ranked right up there. Luckily I had no tissue necrosis or staph with the pede. Counting my blessings.

[james weatherford]

Spiders? Yeah, a few, but no great risks.
Centipedes? Definitely here and better to keep them at a distance.

Snakes? ... yikes! none.

My life has taken me to: Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana (rattlesnakes, copperhead snakes, cottonmouth snakes, black widow and brown 'fiddler' spiders); Australia (brown snakes and spiders and more venomous animals than anywhere else on this planet); and Philippines (cobra snakes); and,
Hawaii ... very benign.

James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park

[missydog1]

ooh, Hooligal, I know, I was the same way for two weeks. Rocketing out of bed if the sheet tickled my toes, like I was spring-loaded. I never ever saw one in my house, and then one night, like you, I woke up out of a sound sleep, in agony.

I had to believe it had hitchhiked in, and I still think that may be it.
But then, just when I had relaxed, I passed my sink one night and DAMN there was a great big one in the bathroom sink. It couldn't get out of the bowl. I'm still mystified whether it came up the drain (how? it's vertical and slippery) or how it climbed a smooth vanity and got in this sink. And WHY.

That was when I got a pest contract. I had been spraying the perimeter stuff from Home Depot. So far so good, but I haven't relaxed yet.

Will any kind of single hibiscus work? I had lots of hibiscus at my old house, but at this house I inherited "fancy" hybrids. I gather those won't work? I hope I never get another pede bite, but I do get ants and spiders regularly, and I'd like to try this hibisus remedy, so maybe I'll buy one because then I'd have one here ... thus the question.

(I know, I could propagate it)

I talked to the pest guy and a lot of other people and they all say the pedes do climb in bed, and they can climb walls (textured), and sometimes they fall down after reaching the ceiling. I know several people who've been bitten in bed. In a way it's not weird, because when we're awake we can see 'em coming!

My son uses tongs to pick em up. That way you can grab em and deal with em at a safe distance.

James, I'm not too sure I'd be OK with cobras in the neighborhood. I've lived around rattlers and dealt with it, but cobras freak me out.

[Guest]

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Originally posted by james weatherford

Snakes? ... yikes! none.

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Actually Dr. W, Hawaii does have the island blind snake []

But if it's truly "Blind" then they aren't to worry about.[8D]

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It is the way... the way it is.

[JayJay]

Oh great ... spider stories, I love it.
There's the big yellow and black kine which sometimes create large webs on one corner of my car port and I swear these insects are telepathic. When you get up next to one and show it you're not afraid of it and send out positive vibes sometimes they start slowly vibrating their webs; it's got to be some form of communication. I don't mind them outside but any found in my home are instantly dispatched, in fact, that goes for any insect and expext older homes to have a higher bug count ...

JayJay

[Les C]

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Actually Dr. W, Hawaii does have the island blind snake []

But if it's truly "Blind" then they aren't to worry about.[8D]

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The name given at this site, Hawaiian Snake" is a bit misleading. This creature has its origins in Africa and Asia and was introduced to the Islands. Many references give it the common name, Brahminy Blind Snake. It's non-poisonous and usually hides underground, it's often mistaken for an earthworm. What's really interesting is that it is referred to as "parthenogenic" which means that the female can reproduce by herself. All of the resulting offspring are female and genetically identical, clones.