Barry Irby
I was one an inspection on day and about to go from the basement into the crawl space when the seller announced that a spider had her "home" in the opening and she did not want me to kill her. Would I move her out side,perhaps to the hedge? Wat kind of spider is it? Black Widow. Nope, You can move her but as for me, the only good Black Widow is a dead Black Widow.

I glued up something in my shop and sued about twenty clamps, including two black band clamps and laid the two things in a pile. Next morning I went down while talking on the cell phone and started removing the clamps. As I reached fr the second clamp, I realized one of the band clamps was moving. A black snake had come in, climbed up onto the bench, and intertwined itself into the pile of stuff. I actually took its picture before I picked it up and threw it outside, far enough away to discourage it from returning.

My son loves and raises snakes. Mostly pythons. His female had a clutch (?) of about thirteen and he sold them for close to $6000. He is moving to Florida and can't take the snake, so I took her to a pet store yesterday to be shipped to the new owner.