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08/21/2005 06:04:16 PM · #1 |
My kids found this in their Lego box a little while ago. We have never had a problem with spiders in the past, but this year with the exceptional wet weather and hot humid temps they are coming out of the wood work. There is another spider with babies we found yesterday if you click here.
The bombing raid will commence at 8am CST to rid my house of these. I realize this type is harmless, but what about the widows and fiddlebacks that travel with them. Save one and take a chance or let live and end up with a wound that extends to your bone? Since kids live with me, I say kill'em all!!!!!!!! There are plenty of spiders away from my house to balance the eco-system.[
Message edited by author 2005-08-21 18:04:43. |
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08/22/2005 03:27:39 AM · #2 |
Nice pictures. Just hope you don't ever have a run in with one of these guys. The dreaded brown recluse spider. A definite flesh eater.
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08/22/2005 04:51:28 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by ph223048:
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A real vicious one there. Eat your arm off (not)
It's just another Wolf Spider. Non-agressive and the bite is harmless.
I guess you smooshed this one too. |
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08/22/2005 09:39:05 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by ph223048:
Since kids live with me, I say kill'em all!!!!!!!! There are plenty of spiders away from my house to balance the eco-system. |
Amen. I will take full personal responsibility for upsetting the balance of the entire ecosystem as a whole. I have no problem with that...blame me. The only good spider is a dead spider. I can't smoosh them (or any other bugs) myself, because the whole "crunch" of the exoskeleton makes me nearly lose my lunch and I can't handle being that close to them anyway...but I have deadly aim with a can of Raid or a pump sprayer of Ortho Bug-B-Gone. ;)
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08/22/2005 09:44:38 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by SDW65:
Nice pictures. Just hope you don't ever have a run in with one of these guys. The dreaded brown recluse spider. A definite flesh eater.
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Well, I've already had a close encounter with this one, and I still have the scars in my right foot, since 1995!
Doc said that, if I waited two more days to start the treatment, I'd have to have my foot amputated!
It's TERRIBLE pain, and the scar is just awful.
Carefull with that one.... |
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08/22/2005 11:21:13 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by scuds:
Well, I've already had a close encounter with this one, and I still have the scars in my right foot, since 1995!
Doc said that, if I waited two more days to start the treatment, I'd have to have my foot amputated!
It's TERRIBLE pain, and the scar is just awful.
Carefull with that one.... |
Eww. Sounds nasty.. |
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08/22/2005 11:31:11 AM · #7 |
The ones I hate are the big brown fuzzy ones that have the world record for the 5yd dash. The only way to get these is to drop a very heavy book on them. They don't have time to dash.
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08/22/2005 02:37:42 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by scuds:
Originally posted by SDW65:
Nice pictures. Just hope you don't ever have a run in with one of these guys. The dreaded brown recluse spider. A definite flesh eater.
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Well, I've already had a close encounter with this one, and I still have the scars in my right foot, since 1995!
Doc said that, if I waited two more days to start the treatment, I'd have to have my foot amputated!
It's TERRIBLE pain, and the scar is just awful.
Carefull with that one.... |
Last fall we had an invasion of them at our old apartment. It took a month before we fought them off and got the house back under our control. It's an interesting experience in fear to have them in your home for a month -- each day killing at least one. We were all, two adults and two small children, were bitten several times. I think I had eight bites by the time the month was over -- but fortunately none of us are overly alergic to them. The bites made us [b]very]/b]lethargic and sick, sickest I've been in years, but only left small scars. None of us had the whole flesh rot - time to amputate - reaction we hear so often.
The only long term effect of it all was our speeding up on moving somewhere else.
David
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08/22/2005 02:44:42 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by Britannica:
The only long term effect of it all was our speeding up on moving somewhere else.
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Consider urself a very lucky man, or else, very lucky family!
There was a time, like 10-11 years ago (by the time i was bit), that those nasty little thing were swarming, they were all over the place at my city. The city was under emergency status (not sure how to say that in english), lots of ppl died cz of these brown spyders.
I was lucky myself! |
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08/22/2005 02:49:43 PM · #10 |
I have had many family friends lose their calf or bicep to the recluse bite. Myself, I have been biten twice and have a dime sized scar. I didn't get the flesh rot either but my doctor says its due to either slapping the spider in mid bite or its too old and dying to have a powerful bite. My scar is that bright red and puffy and I have killed many spiders here in KC Missouri... I have been lucky.
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08/22/2005 03:03:50 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by scuds:
...were swarming, they were all over the place at my city. The city was under emergency status (not sure how to say that in english), lots of ppl died... |
Message edited by author 2005-08-22 15:10:23. |
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08/22/2005 03:06:44 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by nsbca7:
Originally posted by scuds:
...were swarming, they were all over the place at my city. The city was under emergency status (not sure how to say that in english), lots of ppl died... |
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It sounds funny I know, but it wasn't that funny by the time it happened! |
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08/22/2005 03:44:55 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by scuds:
Originally posted by SDW65:
Nice pictures. Just hope you don't ever have a run in with one of these guys. The dreaded brown recluse spider. A definite flesh eater.
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Well, I've already had a close encounter with this one, and I still have the scars in my right foot, since 1995!
Doc said that, if I waited two more days to start the treatment, I'd have to have my foot amputated!
It's TERRIBLE pain, and the scar is just awful.
Carefull with that one.... |
I watched a show on the discovery channel (i believe) about a man that was bitten by a brown recluse spider while in bed. He said it was almost instant pain and a big blister appeared in just a few minutes. He waited a couple of days to go to the doctor after he and his wife saw it was getting worse. To make a long story short before they got the bit under control the man ended up with a softball size hole in his leg above the knee. And it was almost down to the bone. That's how much flesh was eaten away by the venom from this small but deadly spider.
Heres the scary part. They said that when they investigated the house there were numerous spiders on the back of the headboard of his and his wifes bed. And that is where (in the home) you will find them most of the time. They love dark cool places. |
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08/22/2005 03:47:32 PM · #14 |
Originally posted by SDW65:
Heres the scary part. They said that when they investigated the house there were numerous spiders on the back of the headboard of his and his wifes bed. And that is where (in the home) you will find them most of the time. They love dark cool places. |
We had a nieghbor who got bit on the gonads by a Black Widow while sitting on the toilet. He almost died. |
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08/22/2005 03:56:55 PM · #15 |
Examples of the bites:
//www.brown-recluse.com/bitephotos.html
This is no joke fellas!
NOTE: strong images within this link
EDIT: brown recluse spider info:
"The Brown Recluse
The brown recluse is a drab little bug, much less well known than its distant cousin the black widow. The Laxoceles clan, including the North American representatives, L. reclusa and L. rufescens, are ordinary looking, medium-sized brown spiders less than an inch long. They like living in human structures, and often set their webs in corners or in heating ducts. They also enjoy bunking with humans, and have a nasty habit of crawling into clothing as well. Most victims are bitten while dressing or sleeping.
In its own way, the brown recluse’s venom is much nastier than that of the Lacrodectus. Recluse venom is a necrotic toxin: that is, instead of affecting a victim’s nervous system, it acts directly on the skin and musculature to kill the tissues immediately surrounding the bite. The dead tissues heal very slowly, if at all. The effects include a stinging sensation in the vicinity of the bite, coupled with vomiting, restlessness, and malaise. If the venom fails to penetrate the skin, the bite is not life-threatening; however, if it does, the victim may suffer more severe symptoms, including kidney failure (which may turn the urine black) and toxic shock reactions. However, death in unlikely; since 1896, fewer than ten of 130+ brown recluse cases recorded in the United States have resulted in death. In severe cases, necrosis may lead to gangrene, which can require amputation."
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08/22/2005 04:03:53 PM · #16 |
Man, I'm glad I live where most bugs and animals are pretty much harmless. Doscounting allergic reactions, I think the most dangerous animal we have up here are bears and moose.
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08/22/2005 04:10:49 PM · #17 |
eeeck.
we don't have those here, but we did have a run-in with a 'sugar cane spider' once. real nasty things, about the size of a tarantula, but brown and hairless.
My mom claims, when she woke up, she saw this monster spider crawling (quite quickly) up the bed straight for her! needless to say, she freaked out, threw the thing away, and didn't ever see it again. |
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08/22/2005 04:44:41 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by Beagleboy:
Man, I'm glad I live where most bugs and animals are pretty much harmless. Doscounting allergic reactions, I think the most dangerous animal we have up here are bears and moose. |
I second that! Nothing very dangerous in the U.K. Though very occassionaly people in supermakres have been bit by spiders that come over in the Banana shipments. I suppose with 'global warming' its possible that some could 'escape' into the wild and breed...mmm..lets hope we have a real cold winter this year!
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08/22/2005 04:58:02 PM · #19 |
We get stacks of these here in Indiana. It is a common garden spider.
Shot this yesterday.
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08/22/2005 05:00:04 PM · #20 |
spider bites
more photos
Message edited by author 2005-08-22 17:06:33.
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08/22/2005 05:04:33 PM · #21 |
About 15 years ago, I was bitten on the big toe from something inside my boots when I put them on. Drs. think it was a brown recluse, as the skin and flesh discolored and sucked inwards, looking like it was rotting.
Fingers looked like I was from Guam, feet swollen enough to need 10 sizes larger in shoes, lips that looked like sausages and eyes that were almost swollen shut.
Nasty critters!!
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08/22/2005 05:07:26 PM · #22 |
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08/22/2005 05:08:17 PM · #23 |
| I'll post one of my scar, later on tonite! |
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08/22/2005 05:10:42 PM · #24 |
Yeah we have those Brown Recluse Spiders all over my work. We just got a saftey memmo about them. Some guy got bit and his leg is all black and falling off, but the idiot wont go to the doctor. Those things suck.
Travis
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