[CARDINALRULES]

I have had several close calls with BRS, but so far none have bitten me.

I just smashed one the other day as it was crawling on the wall behind the monitor...got it with my sandal.

My favorite method to kill spiders is using Aqua Net --the super hold stuff.
I had a big spider in a corner of the bathroom frozen in place for a few years...kind of like a trophy. ;-`)

[CarolAnn]

You're as sick as I am. When I find a tick on myself or one of my dogs, I stick it on scotch tape, then fold the tape over the top. (I never let them go long enough to get full. I check myself every time I've been out doors.) I don't give a damn how long it takes for the little blood suckers to die. I just toss them in the trash.

[dagoofyfoot]

My favorite method to kill spiders is using Aqua Net--The super hold stuff.


I had a big spider in a corner of the bathroom frozen in place for a few years...and believe it or not, after all this time his hair still looks great!

[auggy]

You might try ,"Sticky Boards". We have used them and caught alot of Recluse's.

[MarkL]

My favorite method to kill spiders is using Aqua Net --the super hold stuff.

I never tried this on spiders, but when I worked in a machine shop, we had a series problem with wasps. The best stuff we ever found was Gunk Engine Brite. You hit a wasp with that stuff, and it starts disolving right then and there. Much more effective than that wasp and hornet killer insectiside, where it can take a few minutes to kill the things. If they're flying, they drop like stones, because their wings are the first part to disolve.

Mark

[exDemMom]

I had a big spider in a corner of the bathroom frozen in place for a few years...kind of like a trophy. ;-`)

Eeeuw! That's just sick!

[ffusco]

Aquanet is practically a flame thrower..... Great for "weathering" palstic model kits.

[Lucas1]

I used to live in Southern Illinois...and had about four of those types of bites. I prob killed no less than 100 of these spiders in the years I lived there. They were literally everywhere.

None of my bites ever turned into deep wounds like others.

[sphinx]

I had a big spider in a corner of the bathroom frozen in place for a few years...kind of like a trophy. ;-`)

I prefer mine stuffed and mounted. Had to give up my best specimen 'cause the movers couldn't get it through the door. Big spider sure looks purty sittin' there over the mantle -- hope the new owners like it.

[DeltaElise]

I was bitten twoo weeks ago by a brown recluse. My volunteer animal rescue job exposes me to many dangers, but this bite has scared me badly. I went to the ER a few days after the bite. At first I thought it was just another mystery bug bite and I get many of those. The DR at the ER yelled at me for waiting so long. I was pretty sick from it and he didn't do anything to help me understand it. He put me on Cipro and pain pills. I quit the pain pills because the side effects from the Cipro were bad enough. I suffer from panic disorder, panic attacks and several other related disorders and can only work with animals and not people so it was hard when I had to return to the ER after having a reaction to the meds because the dr here is so mean. I went ahead and left the ER and came on home because the nurse said the dr would get mad if we called and disturbed him. It was twenty minutes until eleven at night. WELL EXCUSE ME, I WILL JUST GO OUTSIDE TO DIE THANK YOU. I live in a very small town with a very strange dr. Anyway, I took something to calm me and I finally went to sleep. I am putting something called Mellalouca Oil on the bite. It helps alot. Made it drain. I may have escaped the necrosis. I don't know yet.
Does nayoen know when I will feel better? I am not sure if it is the bite or the anti biotics making me sick.
Thanks in advance for any advice or suggestions.
P.S. I consider myself to be a pretty tough person, but this little spider is apparently tougher.