Black Widow Spider

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There is one poisonous spider you need to watch out for, and that is the female black widow spider with a red spot on its back.  The male is not venomous.

Rock fences and retaining walls are the worst, so are piles of junk or wood. We have seen them in the garage. They say trees you buy to plant can get spiders that come in them from different parts of the USA, like in tropical plants etc..  They like old tires too.

Hobo Spider
Funnel webs are a key sign of hobo spiders
most likely seen during mid-summer until
early fall when the males search for females
the Hobo Spider is known to live in Southern BC
Here is another photo of a Hobo Spider from Wikimedia.org
Photo of a Hobo Spider Bite (warning its gross)
What to do if bitten by a Brown Recluse Spider

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Wear some good leather gloves if you are digging in the wood pile, rummaging through junk, planting trees, or working around your retaining wall.  And don't leave your shoes or gloves laying around where spiders can get inside them.

Erroneous attribution of dermonecrotic lesions to brown recluse or hobo spider bites in Canada

Kelowna, B.C. 2007 - Black Widow Spider You-Tube Video

Jumping Spider

Okanagan BC Spittle Bug Nymph
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Photo of the Western Spruce Bud Worm carcass

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Tree affected by the Western Spruce Bud Worm

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Evening grosbeaks flock to areas infested with spruce budworm to breed and raise their young. (If an evening grosbeak were to get all its daily energy from budworm larvae it would eat 1,000 a day.) Because of its appetite for this destructive pest, the evening grosbeak is considered a beneficial bird. Source Answers.com

A single year of defoliation generally has little impact on the tree. However, it does cause weakening of the tree, making it more susceptible to attacks by other insects. Defoliation over a few consecutive years causes tree growth loss. However, if defoliation of current- and previous-year shoots continues uninterrupted over several years, some trees will die, while others will continue to gradually decline for several years, even after the end of the infestation. This is the case with fir, the species most vulnerable to spruce budworm attacks, which dies after four consecutive years of severe defoliation.  Source Natural Resources Canada

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