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To: error99
"These things are not a problem down here where I am."

I wouldn't count on that.

I notice that you live in Georgia. My brother lives in Gwinnett County (Berkeley Lake) and he discovered them in his home and a storabe shed in his backyard.

The University of GA has a current program to discover their range throughout the state. They acknowlege the spiders presence they just don't know how many and the distribution.

There was a popular notion that the Brown Recluse was only flound in the Panhandle area of our state (Florida) but that is absolutely untrue. Three years ago, a fellow about two miles from here was bitten on the leg by one and died despite treatment.

My wife was bitten by a Brown Recluse on her right thigh. The ulcerating infection spread quickly to some orthopedic hardware in her knee. She had to undergo surgery to remove the hardware followed by two and a half months of IV antibitics. She is fine.

It should be noted that these spiders are found worldwide, most commonly in the tropics, with some species reaching temperate latitudes. Here in Florida we are blessed with three varieties of the buggers, all very poisonous:

I would be very surprised indeed if you have some where you are.

171 posted on 05/10/2003 7:22:10 AM PDT by daylate-dollarshort
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To: daylate-dollarshort
"I would be very surprised indeed if you have some where you are."

Make that, "...if you didn't have some where you are."

177 posted on 05/10/2003 7:50:35 AM PDT by daylate-dollarshort
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To: daylate-dollarshort; error99
My company brought a school bus up to me in Pittsburgh from Georgia that was fire damaged and needed rewiring.

The bus sat in the lot from the end of October til the end of February when we brought in into the garage. Three days later I crawl under it to assess the damage and I see a lot of big dead spiders in little webs attached to the frame and underbody, lots of egg sacks too. I saw a large half dollar sized one sitting in the corner of the frame and I blew at it, and to my great surprise it moved. So did I and so did the bus.

The bus went back outside where it was 2 degrees below zero and stayed out there for a couple of days. As soon as the bus came in I sprayed carb cleaner all over the webs, frozen spiders and eggs. Two cans later there was nothing left alive under the bus and I had a chemical buzz going.

There are brown recluse spiders in Georgia and I wish you would keep them there.

186 posted on 05/10/2003 8:34:19 AM PDT by metalurgist (Never underestimate the power of a large group of stupid people....... U S Congress's real motto)
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