Brown Recluse found here at work

[dr150]

Originally posted by: cashman

Originally posted by: iamme
i loved spiders when i was a kid.....used to put ants and other insects on their webs and watch :evil:

lol, that's great.

My brother would take the wings and legs off of flies and put them in spider webs. he liked to watch the spiders "roll a joint" with the corpse. My bro is one sick f*ck!

 

[EvilYoda]

bah. Shut up. There are no spiders in Michigan as far as I'm concerned

<---Hates spiders so much that he kills them, wraps them in tissues/napkins until they're .1mm thick and flushes them down the toilet so they end up somewhere far far away.

 

[Ameesh]

Originally posted by: djheater

Originally posted by: NightRaven
We just found and killed a brown recluse that crawled out of a box of shipped in power supplies. I live in Michigan, so these buggers are pretty rare, and cause quite the scare when they do appear here. This is the second southern spider we have imported this year. A month ago we found a huge huntsman. This thing could have wrapped his legs around a pop can. We didnt kill it though, since they are pretty harmless.

I guess even spiders like to travel...

Visit my mom in AR.

I find tons of recluse if I go looking for them, the scorpions are a bit more rare but not unseen, and that's inside the house Outside there's the snakes, ticks and chiggers, not to mention poachers to keep you on the trails when you're walking in the woods.

wtf?! thats sounds like a terrible place to live. i wouldnt let my mom live there

 

[dr150]

Originally posted by: kage69
We've got some crazy nasty creepy crawlies in The Keys where my folks live. The black scorpions down there will mess you up, and they're everywhere! As for the Brown Recluse, when I was in 10th grade a neighborhood kid got bit on the ankle onetime while he was walking through some saw grass to fetch a football. This guys leg turned black and purple, doubled in size, and then ruptured from his ankle to his knee. Scariest thing I've ever seen.


Fear the recluse!

Out of all the poisonous things in the USA, one should fear the snakes (i.e. rattlesnakes) and Brown Recluse spiders the most. Their venom is designed to substantially eat away at the flesh. Amputated limbs and fingers are common with rattlesnake bites.


Scorpion or Black Widow venom will just make your muscles cramp. Pain sensitive people can get some short-term hurt put into them.

Yup, the only spiders to really, fear in N/S America are the Brown Recluse and Banana Spider of Brazil (which can kill).

Austalia also has some nasty spiders and creatures by the truckload.............We in N. America have it pretty easy vs. Australia.

 

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[0roo0roo]

i only leave daddy longlegs alone.

brown recluse? dangerous sh*t!!

 

[BooGiMaN]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
i only leave daddy longlegs alone.

brown recluse? dangerous sh*t!!

ive heard the daddy long lgs spiders have the most toxic venom..bu their tiny fangs cannot penetrate our skin

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: iamme
i loved spiders when i was a kid.....used to put ants and other insects on their webs and watch :evil:

Your Karma payback should be interesting...

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: shinerburke

Originally posted by: iamme
i loved spiders when i was a kid.....used to put ants and other insects on their webs and watch :evil:

Your Karma payback should be interesting...

LOL!

 

[Jmman]

I found the largest black widow I have ever seen the other day in an outside storage area. Kind of scared me....it was huge....

 

[Savij]

So much unneccessary fear over one little spider. Their bites are relatively painless, they tend to go unnoticed by most peope who get bitten. They aren't going to kill you : Text


"Almost all brown recluse spider bites heal nicely in two to three months without medical treatment at all. Also the long-term medical outcome is excellent without treatment."

"With no physician's care at all, most recluse spider bites show an excellent outcome."

"Healing may be slow, but all lesions heal and mostly with a minimum of scarring. Surgery can offer little or nothing more. No medications are required to treat brown recluse spider bites."

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: Savij
So much unneccessary fear over one little spider. Their bites are relatively painless, they tend to go unnoticed by most peope who get bitten. They aren't going to kill you : Text


"Almost all brown recluse spider bites heal nicely in two to three months without medical treatment at all. Also the long-term medical outcome is excellent without treatment."

"With no physician's care at all, most recluse spider bites show an excellent outcome."

"Healing may be slow, but all lesions heal and mostly with a minimum of scarring. Surgery can offer little or nothing more. No medications are required to treat brown recluse spider bites."

That's nice and all...but these pics would tend to disagree with that statement...

***WARNING*** Fairly nasty pics

Owwwwie!

 

[Savij]

Below are quotes taken from an article by Dr. Phillip Anderson published in the journal, Missouri Medicine. Dr. Anderson was one of only a handful of practicing clinicians in the U.S. whose specialty was brown recluse spider bites, so his opinion is authoritative. He was a university physician specializing in dermatology, in particular on the effects of brown recluse spider bites from Missouri, which is in the heart of the range of the brown recluse, where they are very abundant.

Originally posted by: vi_edit
That's nice and all...but these pics would tend to disagree with that statement...

***WARNING*** Fairly nasty pics

Owwwwie!

You can get similar pictures of any type of wound that hasn't been treated properly or has become infected.

 

[Savij]

I will also admit that i'm not fond of spiders, and won't get anywhere near a snake.

Oh and brown recluse bites are pretty nasty, but (usually) only as bad as the tamest pics (large red bumps and swelling) on the site.

 

[whaleskinrug]

Originally posted by: neilm
I don't think I could live anywhere with stuff like that is the norm, it would freak me out everyday by checking out every step I take.

 

[LordMorpheus]

They are common in stl. We gotta watch out for the buggers.

Is it true that some people are immune or not allergic to their venom?

I found one on my arm, once, and I thought I felt it bite me. Naturally, i freaked, but nothing happened to my arm.

That, and after I shook the crawly off me, i smashed the buh-jeebus out of it.

so, is it possible that it really did bite me, or was it only my imagination?

 

[Armitage]

I got bit by one as a kid ... about 8 or 9 probably.
Not nearly as bad as those pics though! Bit me on the heel of my hand, near the base of the thumb. Swelled up, then eventually a chunk of flesh about the size of a quarter, and maybe 1/8 inch deep sloughed off. Took forever to heal.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: samgau

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
I hate spiders!

My sentiments exactly.....

Short-sighted attitude. For the most part spiders are harmless and beneficial. They do more to control the insect population than all the DDT and Raid ever produced. Without spiders we'd be overrun by other bugs.

That being said, the Brown Recluse is the only creature in the US that bothers me. No fear of gators, cougars, scorpions, black widows or venomous snakes, but I've seen the effects of a brown recluse bite and it's something I would not wish upon my worst enemy.

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt

Originally posted by: samgau

Originally posted by: GTaudiophile
I hate spiders!

My sentiments exactly.....

Short-sighted attitude. For the most part spiders are harmless and beneficial. They do more to control the insect population than all the DDT and Raid ever produced. Without spiders we'd be overrun by other bugs.

That being said, the Brown Recluse is the only creature in the US that bothers me. No fear of gators, cougars, scorpions, black widows or venomous snakes, but I've seen the effects of a brown recluse bite and it's something I would not wish upon my worst enemy.

Dude...he never said that spiders didn't play an important role in the ecosystem, ok? Chill. We just don't like them invading our personal space.

 

[Armitage]

I'll take a brown recluse over a rattlesnake any day.

 

[Savij]

A world-renowned toxicology physician who worked at University of Southern California Medical Center estimates that most spider bites in California referred to him were actually the work of other arthropods and that 60% of "brown recluse spider bite" diagnoses came from areas where no Loxosceles spiders were known to exist. Nationwide, some "brown recluse bites" were subsequently correctly diagnosed as Staphylococcus infection, Streptococcus ("flesh-eating bacteria") infection, Lyme disease, herpes simplex, diabetic ulcer, or bites from bedbugs, mites, ticks, small wasps, biting flies, or other spiders.

In addition, in one case where the offending spider was killed in the act of biting, a Californian doctor misidentified the spider as a brown recluse even though the spider had eight eyes, stripes on the cephalothorax, a patterned abdomen, and spines on the legs. In any event, 90% of all brown recluse bites in the Midwest heal without severe problems and millions of people have lived there for years without experiencing bites.

The Brown Recluse is not a Predator Man Eater!!

 

[Xionide]

Originally posted by: NightRaven
I exterminated this one with the bottom of my dress shoe. Then proceeded to wipe if off on the seat of my boss' arm chair...

Lets just hope he doesnt have hemroids :Q

-Xionide

 

[Savij]

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus
They are common in stl. We gotta watch out for the buggers.

Is it true that some people are immune or not allergic to their venom?

I found one on my arm, once, and I thought I felt it bite me. Naturally, i freaked, but nothing happened to my arm.

That, and after I shook the crawly off me, i smashed the buh-jeebus out of it.

so, is it possible that it really did bite me, or was it only my imagination?

According to this guy, The aren't common anywhere near the Seatle area.

 

[Armitage]

Interesting that brown recluse isn't supposed to be native to the area where I was bit (PA.). It was definitely a spider bite, cuz I squished him after he bit me. And it looked alot like a brown recluse when we looked it up in the encyclopedia. And the bite matched all the symptoms of a recluse bite, including the necrosis.

May have been some other type of 8 legged nasty.