Hundreds Of Brown Recluse Spiders Invade Family's Home

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torpid

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I believe I saw an article that stated that brown recluse spiders are often blamed for unknown flesh lesions but recent research seems to cast doubts on whether or not they are the actual cause. However, thousands of brown recluse spiders can't possibly be good.
 

SP33Demon

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Yup, their venom melts away your tissue like a hot knife on butter!

BTW, what kind of vermin live in that house to actually SUSTAIN that many spiders????
 

yukichigai

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The lead singer of Guttermouth -- Mark -- has contracted flesh-eating diseases twice. I believe one of them was from a Brown Recluse.

Incidentally, the reason why they're called recluses is because they hide. They don't come out and spin elaborate webs to catch insects, they hide in obscure places and eat... crap, I dunno. From the sounds of it, maybe they eat people. Anyway, they're not traditional "good" spiders, they're bad ones.

At least with Black Widows they actually spin webs and catch things occasionally, though they hide a little bit. But the tensile strength of their webs is unbelievable. General and useful note: if you ever are brushing down a spider web and you hear it go *rrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiippppppp* step away from it, ensure you're free of any eight-legged passengers, then proceed to set the damn thing on fire.
 

EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: yukichigai
The lead singer of Guttermouth -- Mark -- has contracted flesh-eating diseases twice. I believe one of them was from a Brown Recluse.

Incidentally, the reason why they're called recluses is because they hide. They don't come out and spin elaborate webs to catch insects, they hide in obscure places and eat... crap, I dunno. From the sounds of it, maybe they eat people. Anyway, they're not traditional "good" spiders, they're bad ones.

At least with Black Widows they actually spin webs and catch things occasionally, though they hide a little bit. But the tensile strength of their webs is unbelievable. General and useful note: if you ever are brushing down a spider web and you hear it go *rrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiippppppp* step away from it, ensure you're free of any eight-legged passengers, then proceed to set the damn thing on fire.

I carry my lighter for a reason. If I spot it, it burns.
 

mwtgg

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Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: mwtgg
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: mwtgg
Damn, who pissed off Syringer?

It was apparently his revenge for the Custom Title. ;)

Syringer
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That douchebag got a custom title? Ugh...

It's a good thing - the mods are starting to get on his case about not finishing the story.They want closure as much as we do.

No, other people are more deserving of a custom title.
 

EyeMWing

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Originally posted by: mwtgg
Originally posted by: EyeMWing
Originally posted by: mwtgg
Originally posted by: conjur
Originally posted by: mwtgg
Damn, who pissed off Syringer?

It was apparently his revenge for the Custom Title. ;)

Syringer
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That douchebag got a custom title? Ugh...

It's a good thing - the mods are starting to get on his case about not finishing the story.They want closure as much as we do.

No, other people are more deserving of a custom title.

This custom title is punishment, not reverence.
 

Pr0d1gy

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The family that sold them the house should be responsible for the fumigation and hotel bills. It's sad that people would willingly sell a house infested with Brown Recluse spiders (the 2nd strongest spider venom in the world) to people without telling them up front.
 

theGlove

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Some possible explainations of the influx of spiders:

1. Someone put a voodoo on the new owners
2. Fear factor truck broke down near by the house.
3. Spiders all of a sudden designated that place as a religious place
4. House is haunted
5. Owners knew about it and hid it good enough that a walk through didn't show up any spiders.
 

Pr0d1gy

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Originally posted by: theGlove
Some possible explainations of the influx of spiders:

1. Someone put a voodoo on the new owners
2. Fear factor truck broke down near by the house.
3. Spiders all of a sudden designated that place as a religious place
4. House is haunted
5. Owners knew about it and hid it good enough that a walk through didn't show up any spiders.

NICE!!!
 

Parrotheader

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We've had some Brown Recluse spiders in our basement for the first time this winter. I fumigated a few times and that seemed to have helped a lot. I've only seen a couple in the spider traps I have scattered throughout the basement since then. I'm not too worried about it as they're actually fairly common in this part of the country and much of the time their bites actually don't do anything at all. But we still obviously want to do our best to get rid of them.

The fact that we didn't have any until this winter makes me wonder if we didn't get them from a large shipment of boxes we received in late autumn that we had stored in the basement. From what I've read, they love to live in cardboard boxes.
 

pyonir

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Dec 18, 2001
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Originally posted by: mwtgg
Originally posted by: pyonir
Originally posted by: mwtgg
Originally posted by: pyonir
Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
OMGWTFSYRINGER!

Wow, a syringer reference more than 60 posts in. How original.

Wow, your life. How original.

My joke > you

:D :p

:confused:

Making sense > your joke.

Exactly, I wasn't trying to make sense. ;)

you not making sense > my sarcasm detector.

:p
 

Anonemous

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Originally posted by: Gibsons
Originally posted by: rh71
Originally posted by: CaptnKirk
Originally posted by: Nik
Uh... so buy some of that bomb stuff that kills spiders and insects, set them all over the house, and set them off in the morning. The gas will kill off every one of those bastards. Come back in the evening when the gas is gone and voila... a clean house. :confused: what's so hard about that?


itsy bity, tiny tiny . . . . eggs that don't get killed.
They hatch . . .
and come looking for ther mothers killer . . . .
they should do it twice... how long is the incubation period of the common recluse egg ?

That should solve that problem unless you have babies making babies.

For a serious problem like this, you can wrap the house in plastic and gas the place with paraformaldehyde. Pretty close to sterilization.

why PFA? :D
 

Anonemous

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Originally posted by: Pr0d1gy
Originally posted by: theGlove
Some possible explainations of the influx of spiders:

1. Someone put a voodoo on the new owners
2. Fear factor truck broke down near by the house.
3. Spiders all of a sudden designated that place as a religious place
4. House is haunted
5. Owners knew about it and hid it good enough that a walk through didn't show up any spiders.

NICE!!!

:D I vote for ancient Recluse burial grounds!

 

BudAshes

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my brother got bit by a brown recluse on the head and his neck was temporarily paralized. Those things are serious.
 

PingSpike

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Originally posted by: digitalsm
Originally posted by: CRXican
How could you sleep in a house like that? They obviously haven't seen the pictures of what happens when you get bit.

If taken care of nothing happens.

I knew a kid who got bit by a brown recluse. They cut a quarter sized chunk of skin out of his arm.
 

PingSpike

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Originally posted by: OulOat
Originally posted by: jagec
Originally posted by: Wallydraigle
Spiders aren't that bad.
You have to look at the big picture. They eat a lot of
really nasty bugs that cause way more damage than spiders ever could.
Insects are the most plentiful animals on earth and without spiders
nothing else could live. So spiders are actually a
good thing. Why people get so freaked out over them I'll never know. Is it the
eyes, the hairy legs? What? What's the big deal?
Really confusing :confused:

These aren't just any spiders. These are brown recluses. Did you LOOK at the pictures?

Have you looked at pictures of dog bites and dog-related deaths?

Have you lived in a house with 50 vicious dogs?
 

mwtgg

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Dec 6, 2001
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Originally posted by: pyonir
Originally posted by: mwtgg
Originally posted by: pyonir
Originally posted by: mwtgg
Originally posted by: pyonir
Originally posted by: MmmSkyscraper
OMGWTFSYRINGER!

Wow, a syringer reference more than 60 posts in. How original.

Wow, your life. How original.

My joke > you

:D :p

:confused:

Making sense > your joke.

Exactly, I wasn't trying to make sense. ;)

you not making sense > my sarcasm detector.

:p

Your mom goes to college. *smirk*
 
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