@Pemerson,
Pemerson wrote: I grabbed one once, squeezed to kill it and the thing pinched me.
Scary because they look like they could give a nasty infection. I hate them.
1ce I was in a hot tub in a summer resort in Upstate, NY ( or maybe it was Massachusetts??).
A black bug, shaped a lot like a spider and about 2 inches in diameter flew onto the water.
I saw that he was in distress, on the surface, in mortal danger.
I picked him up to escort him out of the hot tub
( suspecting that he had not paid his ground fees---maybe that's a cultural bias),
when he bit my hand. It was painful.
He then discovered my personal belief in
vengeance.
I abruptly lowered my hand ( with him in it ) about a foot below
the surface of the water in the hot tub, which was kept at about 104 degrees F.
That was the end of his story.
David
