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Okay a very good reason why I like living in the frozen - today very frozen
north - spiders and snakes just don't grow that big up here
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Truman Prevatt" <tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Jeff Brickson" <brickson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Ridecamp" <Ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <RDCARRIE@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 9:22 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] dodging spiderwebs


> Now riding down here in the tropics - especially in the late summer when
> the banana spiders are carrying their eggs and bulking up for the winter
> - can be interesting. The banana spider is about as big as a silver
> dollar. I don't know if they bit or not - never had a problem. They tend
> to build their webs across open places in the woods about face to a
> rider on a horse. They seem to love horse trails. For some reason they
> seem to always build them around a blind corner. The key is to ride
> second. If you are first, be ready to duck and listen for the reaction
> behind you:-).
>
> I always carry a crop or a dressage whip - the dressage whip is better
> since it is longer. That works pretty well taking out the webs. Their
> webs are very sticky and very strong and even if you get the web the
> spider will more than likely end up on you and you need to brush them off.
>
> Thank goodness these big guys are harmless.
>
> Truman
>
> Jeff Brickson wrote:
>
> > Dawn, to prevent getting web-face when being first rider down the trail,
> > carry a light, long twig out and upright in front of yourself as you trot
> > along.  The webs will stick onto it and the spiders fall to the ground
soon
> > after.  I've not yet been bitten by a spider while riding.
>
>
>
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