spiders

[amazon10x]

Ok, one day I was in my room (i live in basement) and saw this not so big spider. So i got a boot and smashed it. The next day I was on my couch and stood up to open my blind. I looked over and had my hand next to a freaking huge spider with what looked like orange and black legs and such. So I got my bro to kill this ( i have arachnaphobia). The next day I came across another very small spider on my wall and killed it. Today I was walking upstairs and saw a moderate spider on the wall and killed it. When I came back down in my room about an hour or two later I saw the same spider on the wall and killed it. These two spiders look like elarged versions of that really small one. I noticed that that big spider probably got in from my windows because my mom had it open, now I keep it closed. Could I have a spider nest under my bed? It seems very probably with the small spider and the two same larger ones.

If I were to find a spider nest under my bed. What would it look like? And if I did find one should I call an exterminator.

Also, isn't there some bomb thing I can get done to my house that kills all the bugs (mainly spiders) in it? How much does that cost if it does exist?

EDIT: And how long does it take for one spider to build a nest?

[twump]

you can't really get rid of spiders.

about all you can do is make sure you have screens on your windows and doors and try not to let bugs in your house. and also clean up spider webs

there are something like 50,000 spiders in every acre of land.

no need to call an exterminator for spiders unless you know you have venomous spiders. a spider "nest" isn't really a nest. they makes webs which is their nest.

[XunknownX]

It's 5am and my mind is wandering and I think I have a good idea. Wouldn't it be cool if we had an IRC channel just for OC forum members and lurkers? Ops could be the moderators and members could get the little + next to there name. Let me know what you guys think.

*EDIT* No wonder I couldn't find this post later on when I went to check replies. Can a mod please just go ahead and delete this please.

Also, spiders have egg sacs, however, once the egg sac has reached maturity, the spiders just take off. They are solitary creatures and will in fact eat each other.

And as far as having spiders in the house, as long as they are not poisonous, I say leave them. They will get rid of pests.

[twump]

um what does that have to do with spiders? i think your mind is wandering a bit more then you know lol. i think i know which thread you think your posting in lol.



btw an oc irc channel has beenh discussed many times and its not going to happen. at least not an official oc irc channel.

[dead_man311]

theres a tree here in my town, there a orange tree. but you cant eat them. we call the road orange's. ill look it up and find a real name for them unless someone here knows what im talking about.

what you do is get a few of those and place them in your basement. spiders dont like them. wont get rid of them totaly, but really cut them down alot

[SewerBeing]

why not go buy some poison for spiders at the home depot? works quite nicely actually.

[Malpine Walis]

Spiders only eat live insects. If you have spiders in your house they are doing you a favor you probably do not want to know about. Unless they are venomous or there are waaaay to many of them you should learn to live with your little friends. Yes they have a creepy factor but the alternative could well be worse.

[Robrules18]

Im some what arachniphobic as well and I dont mind them as long as there not in my room or if they look anything like a brown recluse (which several do)...

But spiders live alone except when they are bron, so maybe move your bed and look for a small probably no bigger than half your thumb white sac like thing... If you see one its probably a spider egg-sac and you can just vaccuum it up or get rid of it with a kleenex.

But i always kill spiders in the upper floor of my house because, its estimated that the average person eats two or three spiders a YEAR when there sleeping and Charlootte their decides to see whats down there...

[amazon10x]

Thats just the thing. all those i listed were in my room except one. and there are too many of them.

as for the orange thing. I'd like to hear more on that.

[Puer Aeternus]

Years ago when I was in the Militia(Canadian version of Reserves). I got bit by a spider while camped out in petawawa. The back of leg at the joint of my knee was swollen so bad I could not flex nor extend my leg. I had to go the medic where he lanced it to extract the poison. Later that day we found the little bugger on the roof of the tent. Actualy he was fricken huge. We fried him w/ a can of "Nero"(army aresol bug repellant) and a match.

[Mr. Chambers]

dude, i'm sorry i would *not* be able to sleep in that bed after finding that many spiders.. i am scared s***less of spiders and i throughly dislike most insects.. always have..

what i do when i find a spider in my room is usually just go get the vacuum and do a quick search of my place..

[KaHNZa]

Actually, ALL spiders are poisonous. Its just that the smaller ones are unable to penetrate your skin enough to get the poison into your blood. Yeah spiders are icky. DIE DIE DIE!!!

[Sterculus]

We get lots of spiders during the summer in our house, which can get pretty big (biggest I can remember was ~4" across). I don't really mind them that much, but I'll usually dispose of them when I see one.

[specific]

ha

When i was young, long long time ago, i was scared of spiders but still fascinated by them. There was a book in the library, and i would often look at the pictures. But i was so scared to touch the pages, it had to be hilarious to anyone watching me try to turn the pages without touching the spider pictures on the other side of the page. I was so lame.

But spiders are cool, as long as they don't touch me. ;)

[nihili]

Originally posted by dead_man311
theres a tree here in my town, there a orange tree. but you cant eat them. we call the road orange's. ill look it up and find a real name for them unless someone here knows what im talking about.

what you do is get a few of those and place them in your basement. spiders dont like them. wont get rid of them totaly, but really cut them down alot

It's called Osage Orange, or Hedge Apple.

[DeepScience]

Originally posted by Puer Aeternus
Years ago when I was in the Militia(Canadian version of Reserves). I got bit by a spider while camped out in petawawa. The back of leg at the joint of my knee was swollen so bad I could not flex nor extend my leg. I had to go the medic where he lanced it to extract the poison. Later that day we found the little bugger on the roof of the tent. Actualy he was fricken huge. We fried him w/ a can of "Nero"(army aresol bug repellant) and a match.

What happened to the tent when you did that?:eek:

[Puer Aeternus]

Originally posted by DeepScience


What happened to the tent when you did that?:eek:

Ha ha, I was thinking about that...We did not actually shoot the flame at the tent ceiling. It has been so long I dont remember if we flamed the Spider in the tent or managed to get it outside. I think it was in the tent...keep in mind these are Army tents and we were all 18 yrs old and non too respectful of Military property. In fact one guy in our Group was the "In tent Quartermaster". Sandy would "Borrow" from stores and re-distribute "liberated equipment amongst us. But i am getting off topic now. Damn that spider was big and ugly:eek: I figured I got bit while disturbing his home in my sleeping bag.

[repo man11]

Originally posted by KaHNZa
Actually, ALL spiders are poisonous. Its just that the smaller ones are unable to penetrate your skin enough to get the poison into your blood. Yeah spiders are icky. DIE DIE DIE!!!

All spiders have venom, but not all venom is poisonous to humans. Most spider bites will be no worse than a mosquito bite. Some are as bad as a wasp's sting. And some are very serious.

The main one to watch for here in North America
http://www.arachnology.org/Arachnology/Pages/Pictures/latrodec.gif

Black widow spider bites are the leading cause of death from spider bites in the United States. The venom is 14 times more toxic than rattlesnake venom. It is a neurotoxin that causes little local reaction but does cause pain and spasms in the larger muscle groups of the body within 30 minutes to three hours. Severe bites can cause respiratory failure, coma and death.

http://www.ci.phoenix.az.us/FIRE/bitessna.html

Last I read on the subject, Entomologists are still somewhat mystified as to why the Black Widow's venom is so toxic.

Whatever the reason, steer clear. I've come much too close to being bitten by one. Hopefully it will never actually happen.

A wealth of information about spiders, http://www.arachnology.org/

[Oni]

As much as I hate spiders, I did learn a few things:

I learned how neurotoxins work
I learned how myotoxins work
I learned I'm NEVER FREAKING GOING TO AUSTRAILIA!!! (funnelwebs = NO!)

[NewbiePerson]

Now what would spiderman say about all this....

[Steve978]

I hear the average person eats 1 spider every year, like while your sleeping and crap... but I have no idea how they figured that out...

[sandman001]

Repo man, around here we worry more about brown reclouses than anything else.

They cause some nasty bites......

Oni, funnelweb, thar rings a bell. Refresh my memory of them.

[Oni]

Originally posted by sandman001
Oni, funnelweb, thar rings a bell. Refresh my memory of them.

They're rather vicious spiders that live in Austrailia. The bite from males of the Sidney order (I think it's called that) can be fatal, if not treated IMMEDIATELY! Symptoms occour in as little as 15 minutes, and include sweating, salivation, rapid raising and lowering of blood pressure etc. This is due to the kind of venom that it uses. It's called a neurotoxin, and pretty much attaches itself to the various parts of your nervous system that control such things, and make them go haywire.

They don't jump like normal spiders. If they're going to attack you, they'll run up really quick, grab onto you, and jab you about 3 times.

Nasty things.

[amazon10x]

Ok, so where can I get this hedge orange? Will it be at food lion or something?

Oh, yah, black widows, nasty things, they were in some grapes by bro brought home once, lol, didn't eat any of those.

About the funnel web spider. I heard somewhere that they are really aggresive and you can like stand on one side of a room when it is on the other side (big room, maybe 15 feet i guess) and it will run over and tear you up.

btw, lets not get too chatty, i dont want this thread closed...

EDIT: no more spiders... yet

[nihili]

Osage orange was planted by early settlers because it grows fast and forms a dense windbreak. You can't buy the fruit anywhere that I know of, but in the midwest, the tress are everywhere.

So far as I know, the fruit is inedible. But it has a pungent smell that is supposed to act as a bug repellant. As I recall they used to use them to keep moths out of clothes too.

[Malpine Walis]

I did some googling and found that you can buy them at http://hedgeapple.com/ However, they are out of season until July.

[amazon10x]

Crap, by then I'll probably be eaten alive by the dirty things *looks around at walls for spider*... still clear.

Does anyone know where I can get the seeds to grow these trees?

[matrixzen]

Don't kill the daddy longlegs spiders. I don't know if that's the proper name but that's what I call them. A friend told me they eat the black widow eggs. Daddy longlegs are the most poisonous spiders in the world although they can't bit you. I think they are pretty cool. I let a few of them stick around and it's all good. They are kinda like pets to me sometimes. One time one build a web in back of my computer *go figure considering how much I clean back there* so for a while I liked to watch him spin and stuff and sometimes I would kill flys and feed them to him. They are pretty interesting little things.

[KaHNZa]

Where are the Brown Recluse spiders located? I suppose you can't find them in MN.

[CamH]

Originally posted by matrixzen
Daddy longlegs are the most poisonous spiders in the world

I don't think that's true... Actually, I think it's just an old wive's tale. I used to eat them as a little kid.

[amazon10x]

lol, you really used to eat them?

I believe brown recluse is located all through america

[repo man11]

Snopes to the rescue.

There is no reference to any pholcid spider biting a human and causing any detrimental reaction. If these spiders were indeed deadly poisonous but couldn't bite humans, then the only way we would know that they are poisonous is by milking them and injecting the venom into humans. For a variety of reasons including Amnesty International and a humanitarian code of ethics, this research has never been done. Furthermore, there are no toxicological studies testing the lethality of pholcid venom on any mammalian system (this is usually done with mice). Therefore, no information is available on the likely toxic effects of their venom in humans, so the part of the myth about their being especially poisonous is just that: a myth. There is no scientific basis for the supposition that they are deadly poisonous and there is no reason to assume that it is true.

http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/longlegs.htm

http://www.snopes.com/critters/graphics/longleg3.jpg

Also see: http://spiders.ucr.edu/daddylonglegs.html

More information on the Brown Recluse,
In its native range, the brown recluse is a very common house spider. A colleague in Missouri found 5 in a child's bedroom one night, a person in Arkansas found 6 living under his box spring in his bedroom, during a cleanup at the Univ. of Arkansas, 52 were found in a science lab that was being used everyday, a colleague found 9 living under one piece of plywood in Oklahoma, a grad student and I collected 40 of them in a Missouri barn in 75 minutes, and would have collected more, but we ran out of vials to house them. The most amazing story is an 8th grade teacher in Oklahoma checking up on his students avidly collecting material by some loose bricks around a flagpole on an insect collecting trip. In about 7 minutes, 8 students collected 60 brown recluses, picking them all up with their fingers and not one kid suffered a bite. When you find brown recluses in an adequate environment, you do not find one, you find dozens. And yet, the people who live with these spiders rarely get bitten nor do they run around in constant fear. With the current paranoia, if we had populations like that in California, they would evacuate the state and close it down. The California reaction to the mythical brown recluse is based solely on the fear of the unknown and the willingness to believe that there is an 8-legged menace running around causing havoc. I was interviewed by a local newspaper reporter looking for a sensationalistic sound bite. The question was, "What do you think the effect of this brown recluse event will have on southern California?" My answer was "All the tourists from Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas are laughing themselves off their hotel beds because a story on one alleged brown recluse spider found in Los Angeles makes the evening news."

Maybe the Brown Recluse is an overestimated risk? That arachnologist (I wondered if that was a word) seems to think so.
http://spiders.ucr.edu/myth.html

Range of the Recluse according to that site:
http://spiders.ucr.edu/images/colorloxmap.gif

[Movax]

The daddylong legs is not really a spider, or is it?

Read: http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyth/myths/daddylonglegs.html

[Evnas]

Originally posted by Movax
The daddylong legs is not really a spider, or is it?

Read: http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyth/myths/daddylonglegs.html

I was just thinking that and was gonna look it up. A few years ago, just to satisfy curiosity, I did a bunch of reading on "daddy long-legs" and went and looked at a few of what are refered to around here as "daddy long-legs" (since it varies area to area), and found most were Pholcus phalangioides, which is an actual spider, but once you venture outdoors, quite a few seem to be Harvestmen (which are not spiders)

As for spiders in general...my house is crawling (do i detect a pun?) with them (mainly the basement). The house was built in 1919, and though the upstars is in good condition, the basement is unfinished and used as storage and the laundry room, so its quite a haven for spiders. Not to mention I used to have ~5 or 6 Tarantulas as pets (which was a good deturant for keeping my mom out of the room :))

I'm pretty facinated by spiders...especially "Wolf" spiders, as they are quite "odd" for a spider, carrying young on their back till they are ready to leave, etc.

[dead_man311]

Originally posted by nihili


It's called Osage Orange, or Hedge Apple.

Thank you nihili i could not think of the name for the life of me, we have used them for years and they work pertty good. ill have to go down and pick some new ones this year

[=ACID RAIN=]

If you have spiders in your house, given the time of year, they were probably already there and are getting ready to head back out if possible. If you spray for spiders, you will do yourself a great disservice, because they are natural predators.

I'm reminded of something that happened near here on year... This lady had a big snake problem and wanted them gone. These weren't poisonous snakes, just ribbon snakes, milk snakes, ect. She had a team come out and catch all the snakes on her land. Of course they missed a few, but they got the vast majority. The next year she had a huge rat problem. Do I need to explain why, or what could happen if you sprayed? ;)

Since I have several years experience in IPM (integrated pest management) and have a BS in entomology, this is very familiar ground. Chances are the majority of spiders you have killed probably are less damaging than a fireant (you don't have those up there, and be glad of it!). If you can stand it, toss them back outside. Use a jar, or a brother....lol.

I understand that spiders may give you the creeps, but most really don't hurt that bad when they bite. Wasps are far worse in the pain dept, and wait till you see a scorpion...I catch those by hand :D.

I used to have a jar full of black widows that I caught around here, but I dropped it and didn't bother trying to salvage the unbroken specimens. Some were really huge too. Central Texas is far worse with nasty critters than Maryland, so consider the ones you see to be weeners and give them a chance at helping you out ;)

[Genjix]

Originally posted by =ACID RAIN=


I'm reminded of something that happened near here on year... This lady had a big snake problem and wanted them gone. These weren't poisonous snakes, just ribbon snakes, milk snakes, ect. She had a team come out and catch all the snakes on her land. Of course they missed a few, but they got the vast majority. The next year she had a huge rat problem. Do I need to explain why, or what could happen if you sprayed? ;)




I think those thin snakes eat smaller things like fish and crickets and such. I dont think a ribbon snake is capable of eating rats or even mice. Usuall the constictor snakes eat rats or mice, like pythons and boas.

[=ACID RAIN=]

Ribbon snakes do, I've had larger ones as pets. They eat anything. Mice are not out of the question by a long shot. Afterall, I didn't cover all the snakes, such as hognoses, ground rattlers, whips, copperheads (yes some of these are poisonous) ect. Are you in Texas living with these, or am I? :p :D lol

[Evnas]

Originally posted by =ACID RAIN=
Ribbon snakes do, I've had larger ones as pets. They eat anything. Mice are not out of the question by a long shot. Afterall, I didn't cover all the snakes, such as hognoses, ground rattlers, whips, copperheads (yes some of these are poisonous) ect. Are you in Texas living with these, or am I? :p :D lol

Not to mention that the babies are well withing the capabilities of being eaten and that alone would cut down the rodent population

[=ACID RAIN=]

That is quite true. Nest raiding is not uncommon.

I've kept and played with these things since I was three. No offense to Genjix, but you'd think after 6 1/2 years of college, 3 years of which was spent working an environmental science degree and the rest on entomology, I'd know a thing or two about our local snakes... :) ;)

[Disco_Stu]

I was watching a show on the Discover channel once, theres a species of trantula that throws its' body hair as a defense mechanisim, supposedly its incredibly irritating.

I think we north amercans got off easy in terms of nasty critters. not all that many things can kill you here compared to the other continents.

[Lusankya]

There is an Ant in Australia or New Zealand that has been labeled the most lethal in the world. I watched it on one of those discoery top 10 killers specials. The bite of a single ant has killed lots of people. Its been known to kill kids w/i minutes if I remember correctly.. haven't been able to remember the name or find them online yet

[Cuda]

I grew up in deep South Texas, in a little town called Zapata. It's about 40 miles down the Rio Grande from Laredo. Everything down there will either bite you, pinch you, or stick you. Even the grass (I hate sand burrs). Rattlesnakes, Black Widows, and scorpions were common. While the scorpions were not of the deadly variety, they hurt like heck when they sting. I threw one at my little brother once. It went down his shirt. It stung him repeatedly until he squashed it. I got grounded, but it was funny watching him dance. Now, 25 or so years later, we laugh about it.
As for spiders in your room, keep things cleaned up, vacume often and destroy webs on sight. Your spider problem will fade away, if that's what you want.

[Frodo Baggins]

I noticed nobody mentioned the fact that all these extra spiders seemed to appear after he squashed poor baby spider.

One word: Karma dude, karma.

Jeez, remember that movie about the spiders? Arachnophobia?

[TheTick]

All I know is, we could be in Africa, with some crazy ass lion running around trying to eat us ... of course, we would have spears ...

I dont like spiders, and yet we eat 5-10 in our lifetime(not 5 per year), long as Im not aware at the time, its ok.

[amazon10x]

I dunno about the whole eating spiders thing. Sounds like a myth to me...

Well, I guess the problem has faded away, haven't seen any. I don't notice any other insects either

[repo man11]

Snopes to the rescue again.

The average person swallows eight spiders per year.

Status: False.

Origins: Oh, yuk!
I said, 'Quack' It's hard enough to avoid those horrible wriggly things while we're awake, and now we have to worry that they're crawling into our mouths while we sleep? Little Miss Muffett was a piker.

Fear not. This "statistic" was not only made up out of whole cloth, it was invented as an example of the absurd things people will believe simply because they come across them on the Internet.

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/spiders.htm

I love Snopes.

[=ACID RAIN=]

Well I tell you what, I'll freely admit that I have eaten many live insects, and if given the chance, they gladly bite back. I have a hard time with anything that says you eat any spiders at all in your lifetime. If you do, they are either already dead, or they are stuck in between two pieces of bread where they can't bite you before you crush them. Plus, I would imagine they don't taste good....god knows stinkbugs don't....yek.

And yeah I know spiders are not insects, so the detail nitpickers can shove it :p :p

[FireMogle]

I once had a nest hatch in my ceiling one night. One baby spider came down on me, it was killed. After about 15 I left the room for the weekend. I have issues with spiders.
Also Last summer I woke up a couple of times with brown recluse spideres on me, I dont sleep well anymore. I hate those things.

[Evnas]

Originally posted by FireMogle
I once had a nest hatch in my ceiling one night. One baby spider came down on me, it was killed. After about 15 I left the room for the weekend. I have issues with spiders.
Also Last summer I woke up a couple of times with brown recluse spideres on me, I dont sleep well anymore. I hate those things.

Its funny that you mention a Brown Recluse as your avatar from Evil Dead is a good portrayal of what can happen with a bite from one

[nerdlogic]

I was okay with spiders, except for the black widows I torch, but now not only am I scared of spiders after this thread, but ants and stuff too. Now I am going to be shrieking like a schoolgirl everytime I see one! BAH! :p

[=ACID RAIN=]

Not all spiders are that bad when they interact with us. I routinely pick up small jumping spiders and wolf spiders. Down here (central texas) we have large black jumping spiders that I will not pick up since they are aggressive, but the smaller gray ones are fun. They flip out and try to get out of your hand sometimes, and hanging on to them can be a challenge unto itself. Wolf spiders are sometimes ok, but I tend to shy away from larger ones there too. Jumping spiders are a hoot, you should try it sometime. And unless you're allergic, the bite is relatively harmless (it must rarely occur, but I never hear about it).

[amazon10x]

So, when are you leaving for the padded room? lol

[=ACID RAIN=]

Jumping spiders get in my house all the time, you expect me to scoop them in a jar every time I see one? Man I aint skairt of some dumb spider..... :p.

As a rule, all entomologists are crazy anyways :D

[=ACID RAIN=]

Originally posted by =ACID RAIN=
Jumping spiders get in my house all the time, you expect me to scoop them in a jar every time I see one? Man I aint skairt of some dumb spider..... :p.

As a rule, all entomologists are crazy anyways :D

If you get the creepies from spiders, try walking around the woods in southeast texas when banana spiders have a population explosion. I had like 5 2 inch long spiders just on my neck, not to mention the rest of my body. They were everywhere. I must admit, the thought of being bitten on my neck bothered me a little, but overall the spiders didn't bother me at all.

Here is a good link to what I was covered with:
http://www.eqeq.com/Wildlife/bannana_spider_photo_gallery.htm

And a pic (hehe I can imagine the shivers up some of your spines)
http://www.eqeq.com/Wildlife/images/BannanaSpiderCloseup.jpg

[FireMogle]

I am going to go out on a limb and guess that those spiders arent natives to the US?? They sure do like nice though.

[Penguin4x4]

Originally posted by =ACID RAIN=
Not all spiders are that bad when they interact with us. I routinely pick up small jumping spiders and wolf spiders. Down here (central texas) we have large black jumping spiders that I will not pick up since they are aggressive, but the smaller gray ones are fun. They flip out and try to get out of your hand sometimes, and hanging on to them can be a challenge unto itself. Wolf spiders are sometimes ok, but I tend to shy away from larger ones there too. Jumping spiders are a hoot, you should try it sometime. And unless you're allergic, the bite is relatively harmless (it must rarely occur, but I never hear about it).

Oh the fun days of playing with jumping spiders and grasshoppers, how I miss it, :( Never saw any banana spiders, though I do live on the SE Texas Coast, not the wooded eastern areas like Lufkin, :D

[=ACID RAIN=]

Penguin, where from? I spent 10 years in beaumont, we go that way every now and then (family still there) :D

[JML]

I admit, I'm afraid of spiders like a wuss. Except for Daddy-long legs for some reason. One time when I was camping our tent was full of them, they were all over us as we layed there.

[Penguin4x4]

Originally posted by =ACID RAIN=
Penguin, where from? I spent 10 years in beaumont, we go that way every now and then (family still there) :D

A little town know as Bay Schitty; it's in Mataghetto County. :D

[n17ikh]

Actually, my uncle knows a pest exterminator who got bitten by a brown recluse. He knew what would happen and had his toe (where he was bitten) amputated within the day. Unfortunately, they didn't catch it in time and the gangrenous mess moved up his foot into his leg, and he has had I think 9 seperate amputations to try and stop it but they can never get it. The infection is moving slowly but is past his knee now. Brown recluses are not fun. :(

[specific]

Originally posted by Lusankya
There is an Ant in Australia or New Zealand that has been labeled the most lethal in the world. I watched it on one of those discoery top 10 killers specials. The bite of a single ant has killed lots of people. Its been known to kill kids w/i minutes if I remember correctly.. haven't been able to remember the name or find them online yet

Something else i picked up on early in life was that Australia was home to nearly EVERY deadly poisonous thing on earth. Like the only lethal snail, a sea snail which i don't remember the name of. I can't wait to visit that continent. :D

[Evnas]

Originally posted by specific


Something else i picked up on early in life was that Australia was home to nearly EVERY deadly poisonous thing on earth. Like the only lethal snail, a sea snail which i don't remember the name of. I can't wait to visit that continent. :D

Not to mention even the "cuddly" platapus is one hell of a toxic little sucker

[nerdlogic]

Originally posted by n17ikh
Actually, my uncle knows a pest exterminator who got bitten by a brown recluse. He knew what would happen and had his toe (where he was bitten) amputated within the day. Unfortunately, they didn't catch it in time and the gangrenous mess moved up his foot into his leg, and he has had I think 9 seperate amputations to try and stop it but they can never get it. The infection is moving slowly but is past his knee now. Brown recluses are not fun. :(

And where are those spiders from?

[FireMogle]

Originally posted by nerdlogic


And where are those spiders from?

Mid and southwest, the page before this one has a map.