Posted on 01/14/2005 11:25:21 PM PST by Dallas59
Thanks for the post. I live in Caleeforniea (Schwartzenegger) and my gal was bit by a spider. So I checked and checked and found out we did not have them ol' brown nasty spiders.
But, it is good to know they are nasty and prevalent!
So, again, thanks for the post!
I just moved to the north after being in Dallas 10 years. I never EVER killed a spider in the house before I identified it! Used to get out my magnifying glass which I kept right in the kitchen drawer. Totally paranoid. Had a friend who had them in her house and couldn't get rid of them. Our local jail had to evacuate for MONTHS because of BR's and still couldn't be rid of them.
I feel for your room-mate.
My exterminator told me they are hard to identify. THeir markings aren't pronounced and they are usually so small it's hard to tell.
Put a "For Sale" sign out tomorrow!
That is true. I killed a large brown spider in Dec in the back of my gal's pickup bed. I checked all the spiderology and could not locate a comparison.
My thinking is this, if it has legs, is tiny and is uninvited, kill it!
Sanitize everything around the damn thing!
We do to. They don't come around here no more.
I hope your friend has a good doctor. If he has any doubts get him to a university hospital, where they will probably have more experience with those bites. It can move very fast so really keep an eye on it. I'll pray for him. He's going to need it.
Thank you.
You're welcome. :) I forgot to tell you that it's probably going to look a lot worse, so don't be too alarmed when you see it. That's just the way those bites are. First prayers have been sent. Keep us posted!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/908924/posts
This was a great thread with lots of info from a few years back.
Yikes. Tell him we're praying and wishing him the best and to hang in there.
A few year ago, a black widow was discovered at my 20ac Penna garden center & nursery, on some stock shipped in from Oregon/California. We caught it and the babies, and put them in a jar of alcohol. Nothing since. Winter would have killed it anyway, unless it got into one of the buildings.
Sobering event.
He never thought about it nor did I. You don't think of anything dangerous in your apartment.
What anti-biotic is your room mate on? There is an antibiotic which though it cures the bite problem,can cause almost as many problems as that bite. If you want to talk about this,please FREEPmail me.
south central US is the center of these innocent looking, but very nasty spiders, from Texas to Florida.
I've been bitten by both a Pygmy Rattlesnake and a Brown Recluse. If I had to do one over again, I'd chose the snake.
Because of their small size, the easiest way to identify them is by looking at their legs.
The Brown recluse's front and rear sets of legs are extraordinarily long when compared to the middle sets.
Just about every member of our household has had a brown recluse bite at one time or another, although thankfully no one had a reaction as severe as the one shown above.
Many years ago we built a house in Brazoria county Texas. The next year I looked behind one of the outside window shutters and found a Black Widow spider nest. I checked the rest of the shutters and found almost every one had a similar nest ready to hatch out babies. I killed them all and never saw another Black Widow the enitre 16 years we lived there. I always wondered did the spiders come with the building supplies?
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