Gettin' It Pegged…Loom Knitter's Clique

Well, I went to the entomologist specialist at the health department and she promptly said, without a second glance, that my 2 specimens of the spiders we’ve been having trouble with were NOT hobos.

Let me tell you that these guys looked exactly like all the photos of hobos I’ve been studying over the last month and a half.

Even though the “specialist” said these were not the real thing…how can I truly know unless she looks under a microscope and conclusively, scientifically finds without a doubt that what she states, is true? 

More to the point…how can I trust that the spider crawling across my living room floor is not the venomous, blood sucking monster it truly looks like?

If anybody knows…please be kind & let me know.  I’d truly appreciate it! 

Bethany~

Well…a spider, actually.

Yes, we finally caught one fairly large specimen in one of our many traps.  They don’t seem to be working as advertised…I think “pre-baited” doesn’t necessarily mean that they actually used Hobo spider pharemones as bait…maybe, beetle, or termite, or maybe moth pharemones.  This is a small accounting of what we have caught in our traps so far.  Yet, we did catch one in our kitchen trap…and only because it thought it was ducking under cover when my husband walked in and startled it!

So…off to the health department entomology division to get it positively identified.  Apparently, there are “look-alikes” that are really hard to tell from the real ones.  I’d be real happy if it turned out to be one of those guys!

Keep you posted!  Hope your week starts out great!     Bethany~