Anonymous
10/11/2025 20:01
Subject: Black Widows at Westfield
Anonymous wrote:They moved 20 classrooms yesterday. My guess is the problem is bigger than they are admitting.
Hopefully they are using some common sense and taking the long weekend to fumigate and then air out the building.
This is complete performance.
Anonymous
10/11/2025 20:00
Subject: Black Widows at Westfield
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My garage has black widows. Hidden Oaks has black widows. Welcome to Virginia. We also have copperheads, brown recluses, and bears. This is not news
Black widows are not native to northern Virginia.
Wrong.
Anonymous
10/11/2025 19:07
Subject: Black Widows at Westfield
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My garage has black widows. Hidden Oaks has black widows. Welcome to Virginia. We also have copperheads, brown recluses, and bears. This is not news
Black widows are not native to northern Virginia.
DP. That doesn't matter. They're definitely here, I've found them in my garage.
Anonymous
10/11/2025 17:48
Subject: Black Widows at Westfield
Are the black widows hiding the boundary maps? I’m told by super secret sources they are. Reid needs to address this immediately.
Anonymous
10/11/2025 09:29
Subject: Black Widows at Westfield
Anonymous wrote:Best part of the article is where someone asks why no one who cleans the classrooms has noticed them. People, I work in a school, and I promise you that no one cleans the classrooms. Someone comes in right after the kids leave and empties the trash and runs a large broom/dry dust mop through one or two of the aisles between the desks and then they leave. It's gross. It gets cleaned in summer and that's it.
What? How many janitors work in each school?
Anonymous
10/10/2025 19:16
Subject: Black Widows at Westfield
Best part of the article is where someone asks why no one who cleans the classrooms has noticed them. People, I work in a school, and I promise you that no one cleans the classrooms. Someone comes in right after the kids leave and empties the trash and runs a large broom/dry dust mop through one or two of the aisles between the desks and then they leave. It's gross. It gets cleaned in summer and that's it.
Anonymous
10/10/2025 16:26
Subject: Black Widows at Westfield
Anonymous wrote:My garage has black widows. Hidden Oaks has black widows. Welcome to Virginia. We also have copperheads, brown recluses, and bears. This is not news
Bears in a school should probably make the news.
Anonymous
10/10/2025 14:45
Subject: Black Widows at Westfield
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My garage has black widows. Hidden Oaks has black widows. Welcome to Virginia. We also have copperheads, brown recluses, and bears. This is not news
Black widows are not native to northern Virginia.
Neither are white Europeans and yet….
Textbook example of what happens when you fail to secure your borders... err, courtyards, against non-native invaders.
Anonymous
10/10/2025 14:24
Subject: Black Widows at Westfield
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My garage has black widows. Hidden Oaks has black widows. Welcome to Virginia. We also have copperheads, brown recluses, and bears. This is not news
Black widows are not native to northern Virginia.
What's your point? Do you think that means it doesn't live here?
Northern Virginia hosts many non-native species that are now well-established. These species have adapted to the region and often outcompete native flora and fauna, disrupting local ecosystems.
To name just a few non-native, but very well-established, plants and animals:
- English Ivy
- Butterfly bush
- Japanese Honeysuckle
- Asian Wisteria
- Multiflora Rose
- Phragmites
- Crepe Myrtle
- Hydrilla
- Spotted Lanternfly
- Emerald Ash Borer
- Gypsy Moth / Spongy Moth
- Northern Snakehead
- Nutria
- Rusty Crayfish
- Zebra Mussel
- Rapa Whelk
- Asian Lady Beetle
- Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
- European Earwig
- Yellow Garden Spider
- European Starling
- House Sparrow
- Mute Swan
- Rock Pigeon
- Callery Pear
- Tree of Heaven
- Norway Maple
- Heavenly Bamboo
To anyone with english ivy in your yard, it is horrible, often screws over your neighbors by infiltrating their yard, should probably be outlawed from being sold, and makes mosquitoes worse. Rip it out (which will take constant, repeated effort with how it comes back).