Originally posted by: fitzov
http://spiders.ucr.edu/images/colorloxmap.gif
http://spiders.ucr.edu/necrotic.html
Those aren't all brown recluse bites
Originally posted by: Savij
Most of these pics are the extreme cases where there are extenuating circumstances. Nine times out of ten, a brown recluse bite won't come across as anything worse than a mosquito bite that takes a little longer to heal in a healthy person. Stop picking on the brown recluse and go kill some snakes (they're all evil poisonous creatures that shouldn't be allowed to share this earth with us).
Originally posted by: glenn beck
Originally posted by: fitzov
http://spiders.ucr.edu/images/colorloxmap.gif
http://spiders.ucr.edu/necrotic.html
Those aren't all brown recluse bites
yeah I saw some postings from Maryland, I was like, I thought they weren't in MD, got
all paranoid for a moment.
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: Savij
Most of these pics are the extreme cases where there are extenuating circumstances. Nine times out of ten, a brown recluse bite won't come across as anything worse than a mosquito bite that takes a little longer to heal in a healthy person. Stop picking on the brown recluse and go kill some snakes (they're all evil poisonous creatures that shouldn't be allowed to share this earth with us).
OMG!!! There is another voice of reason here?
My brother!!!
Anyhow, he is correct. The vast majority of brown recluse bites cause very few problems.
Originally posted by: alien42
Originally posted by: glenn beck
Originally posted by: fitzov
http://spiders.ucr.edu/images/colorloxmap.gif
http://spiders.ucr.edu/necrotic.html
Those aren't all brown recluse bites
yeah I saw some postings from Maryland, I was like, I thought they weren't in MD, got
all paranoid for a moment.
according to one of the victims:
"a recluse can live a year without food and water, and 10 years in a normal lifespan. Hence they can travel in your suitcase, boxes, through shipping methods and are hardy enough to withstand no nourishment; they actually are hardier than "cancer cells."
i have no idea if that is true however
Originally posted by: Descartes
I love spiders, but everytime I see the BRS it gives me chills.
I had hundreds of those bastards in a townhome a few years back. I somehow managed to escape with no bites even though we found them IN my bed, under my bed, in all my closets, in the shower, in the cupboards, etc. etc.
*shudder*
Originally posted by: Farbio
got bitten by one at summer camp one year...thought it was a pesky mosquito bite till the skin started turning white & scaly...just got some antibiotics and it was gone in a few days, no big deal. they aren't terribly dangerous as long as you pay attention and get treatment for them if they don't heal in a reasonable amount of time
Originally posted by: Baked
Yeah. They had an article on brown recluse spider bite in The New England Journal of Medicine a few years back. It's totally disgusting.
Originally posted by: Excelsior
Originally posted by: Descartes
I love spiders, but everytime I see the BRS it gives me chills.
I had hundreds of those bastards in a townhome a few years back. I somehow managed to escape with no bites even though we found them IN my bed, under my bed, in all my closets, in the shower, in the cupboards, etc. etc.
*shudder*
FVCK that.
Originally posted by: Savij
Originally posted by: Farbio
got bitten by one at summer camp one year...thought it was a pesky mosquito bite till the skin started turning white & scaly...just got some antibiotics and it was gone in a few days, no big deal. they aren't terribly dangerous as long as you pay attention and get treatment for them if they don't heal in a reasonable amount of time
Count yourself lucky that it wasn't one of satan's belly crawling minions that bit you. You would have bloated to three times your normal size, and if you didn't get help in time, you could have turned into a blood thirsty slave of the devil.
True story: I once saw a guy who got bitten by a snake swell up to the size of a toyota camry and then devour a water buffalo before ripping the heads off all his GI Joes.
Originally posted by: Savij
Originally posted by: Farbio
got bitten by one at summer camp one year...thought it was a pesky mosquito bite till the skin started turning white & scaly...just got some antibiotics and it was gone in a few days, no big deal. they aren't terribly dangerous as long as you pay attention and get treatment for them if they don't heal in a reasonable amount of time
Count yourself lucky that it wasn't one of satan's belly crawling minions that bit you. You would have bloated to three times your normal size, and if you didn't get help in time, you could have turned into a blood thirsty slave of the devil.
True story: I once saw a guy who got bitten by a snake swell up to the size of a toyota camry and then devour a water buffalo before ripping the heads off all his GI Joes.
