Brown Recluse Spider in my house.
May 9, 2018 19:52:02 #
newtoyou wrote:
Picky,I know, but to call a spider an insect means you have nothing to add of importance. why add, go do some basic research and get back to us. Thank you
"Bug" works.....
(Yup, picky. <and a bit snarky.>
Further research uneccessary as juanbalv covered most of it.)
You're welcome.
May 9, 2018 20:49:27 #
May 9, 2018 23:30:51 #
Guyserman
Loc: Benton, AR
LELON CUDE wrote:
The Brown Recluse is an aggressive, poisonous, spider in Texas. It is much more poisonous than the Black Widow Spider. It has migrated, or hitch hiked, etc. to Texas, and other southern states, from Mexico. I found this one in our house in a plastic garbage can that it could not get out of.
I would not call the Brown Recluse aggressive. I've killed dozens of them, maybe hundreds. Back in the 1950s before anyone was saying they were poisonous we had them in our house but you could never find them. Two or three times a week we would find one in the bathtub that couldn't get out. I guess they came out at night to get water and hide again before daylight. Other than when they got trapped they were never to be seen. I actually kind of admired them with the fiddle on their back. But I'd mash them (not with my bare hands) and go on my way. No one in our family of seven ever got bit.
May 10, 2018 00:08:26 #
May 10, 2018 00:12:36 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
The main lady from Maine does appreciate your humor.
Apologies to the OP for hijacking; I rarely do this. I just needed a distraction from the epidemic in main forum of people refusing to read what's already been written prior to posting their own words of wisdom - no matter that the wisdom was already dispensed sixteen times
Apologies to the OP for hijacking; I rarely do this. I just needed a distraction from the epidemic in main forum of people refusing to read what's already been written prior to posting their own words of wisdom - no matter that the wisdom was already dispensed sixteen times
You are not a hijacker, you were on topic, or at least sub-topic. That word is used too much around here. I was accused of hijacking by some yahoo here. If you completely change the subject you may be a hijacker, but the whole things smacks of narrowness. So you made a valid point.
May 10, 2018 00:15:25 #
juanbalv wrote:
You better watch out with those daddy long legs in your basement. They are prone to transformation into brown recluses in an attempt to be featured in Wikipedia, its lack of finality as an informational medium and, yes, my flawed reasoning, of course, notwithstanding.
Glad to see you have a sense of humor and was not insulted. Wiki is good for a good quicky summary, but I wouldn't bet the farm on any particular factoid.
May 10, 2018 06:10:10 #
My son-in-law, living in Pekin, IL was bitten on the thigh by a brown recluse several years ago. He was actually in bed when the bite occurred. Within 24 hours of the bite, he was hospitalized and for several days it was touch and go as to whether or not he would lose his leg. There was even some concern that the bite might prove fatal. He underwent several surgeries as doctors tried to stop the spread of venom through his leg, spent about two weeks in the hospital and finally ended up with a 4" X 4" divot in his leg. Because brown recluse spiders are rare in central Illinois, medical people had very little first-hand knowledge on how to treat the wound. In the end, he had to undergo several more plastic surgeries to try to restore the look of his leg. The Discovery Channel even did a segment on the story. Actually, quite a scary incident!
May 10, 2018 07:11:46 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Politicizing a poor little arachnid - for shame. Here's an article that says they are native to the U.S. and traveled to Mexico! You guys crack me up
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/health-authorities-warn-of-violin-spider/
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https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/health-authorities-warn-of-violin-spider/
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Maybe we should build a WALL? LOL
May 10, 2018 11:07:16 #
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May 10, 2018 13:14:10 #
tomad
Loc: North Carolina
I'd be moving! Have you seen the story about nests of those living inside the walls and attics of homes? Seriously, when we recently moved back from overseas we were wide open as to where to live except for a few necessities. I did months of research and one of my criteria was safety from natural disasters. I have lived in California (earthquakes) and Florida (hurricanes), and west Tennessee (tornadoes), so I was looking for a place that minimized those possibilities. I came across a web site by accident that showed the normal range of that spider and it runs east generally to the Blue Ridge or Appalachian mountains. We picked central North Carolina based on all those things (I'm an arachnophobic).
May 10, 2018 14:42:34 #
I can confirm that at least two of them made it to Southern part of Michigan. One bit me on shin causing a big festuring wound, swollen leg and lots of antibiotics and injections. Luckily it didn't get into bone.Took about a year before normal. The other bite was to a woman who died. Both medically confirmed ...I moved here from Calif. 2004...thought it would be safer...no earthquakes....oh well ;-(
May 10, 2018 17:27:27 #
Not at all graybeard, I was simply trying to add the possibility of correction. Wiki is a good start.
graybeard wrote:
Glad to see you have a sense of humor and was not insulted. Wiki is good for a good quicky summary, but I wouldn't bet the farm on any particular factoid.
May 10, 2018 17:29:12 #
May 10, 2018 20:56:30 #
If you want to increase your horror quotient and perhaps your awareness do a search for 'necrotizing fasciitis from spider stings and bites". Also be aware wolf and nursey spiders are not only highly aggressive and will sometimes charge at you if intruded upon but their bites are suspected of causing tissue damage leading to necrotizing fasciitis. Spiders give me the heebie-jeebies, except, strangely enough, jumping spiders. In fact, I once serviced a piece of airfield equipment where lived a huge, black with a touch of iridescent green, hairy jumping spider that came hopping out of hiding each time I opened the lid. On a lark, I fed it an insect on one of my bi-weekly visits and it only took one such feeding for it to learn the trick. After that each time I opened the lid it hopped out to great me and accept its meal. That continued all summer but the next year it had disappeared. At a centimeter and a half, it was the largest jumper I have ever seen.
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