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I only know one guy personally who has been affected by a spider bite. No certain idea as to what spider or when he got bit.

He was on a cane fro a year and a half until they removed the entire leg. Maybe an allergic reaction to a bite that most of us experience? I don't know.

I'll continue to kill on sight.

doubt it was an allergic reaction that caused it.......allergic reaction doesnt do that, usually stops your breathing more than anything on a serious reaction......most likely it was the result of a secondary infection resulting from the bite, might not necessarily been a recluse....course sorta this has also happened as a result of a mosquito bite and similar normally benign events. sorry to hear about the guy yah know.

Rattler,

His bite could have been any damn thing, really. No one officially categorized it as anything.

If it was a wicked Staph infection following the bite, I'd believe it.

I was just surprised at how limited the medical solution is in terms of relegating a bite to standard fair.

This poor guy (friend) ran a beverage shop and imported great beer. He was a corrections officer before the bite. Toward the end, you could smell the funk as you walked in from his leg...

New York. Spider.

What a shame, and what an amazing creature...

Was in Idaho during archery elk season a few years back and every daddy long legs in the area decided that our tent looked like a good wintering area....Would go to bed and the little basterds would start crawling, dropping on your head, sleeping bag, everywhere....Could not sleep until we drove to Avery and bought the last can of Raid on the shelfs the day before the season....sprayed a aline around the tent on the ground and those little suckers would not cross it....A couple days later we found an old mineshaft and had to look inside..went in about twenty feet and happened to shine the flashlight up....was probaly ten billion daddy long legs and who knows what over kind of spiders on the ceiling....Inches thick and moving....I got out of there quick....Still get the shivers over that one....

4X4 YUCK!!!

Amen, Brother!!!

Kill 'em all!

Todd

If you get bit you need to go to the hospital as soon as you can.

They are "reclusive" meaning they like dark quiet places like the rocks around a garden or the underside of you mailbox. If you mess with them they get pissed and will nail ya.

Spot

Now that chits FUNNY!! And...I HATE spiders!!!

Todd

You want to see some gross videos, go to Youtube and search for spider bites. WARNING - EXTREMELY GROSS.

I used to raise greyhounds, and the pups till a year old had raised houses about three feet off the ground. This was in Florida, so everything was damp, but the houses were relatively dry. The dog houses were always full of black widows. Their webs we just plain ugly, no pattern at all.

My daughter's teddy bear, Jerry, was bitten badly about 8 days ago. It's pretty ugly:








Be careful out there, people!!

-jeff

Res ipsa loquitor.

Indeed!

-jeff

Well, as usual, I missed the whole thread.

For what its worth, one of the guys at our hunt lease got bit by a brown recluse while shopping at Wal Mart. He pulled a box off a shelf and the spider plopped onto his arm. He knocked it off but, over the course of a day or so, this volcano-looking sore erupted on his arm. Antibiotics fixed it up. Another hunting buddy accidentally smashed one in his pants pocket while driving. The venom ate a few layers of skin off his leg. Looked like a nasty burn.

My wife hates spiders as much or more than anybody. When her office was robbed, she got mad and almost hit the armed robber with her cash drawer. When she sees any spider, there's this gasping shriek that she makes. Its the spider scream because nothing else evokes that sound. She didn't make any such noise when that guy stuck a 9mm in her face. Its reserved for spiders.

We rented a house for about a year and a half that was INFESTED with what we call wolf spiders down here in Florida. They are pretty harmless but they get a lot bigger than a recluse. A big one will be as big as a child's hand. They're fuzzy too. I got tired of trying to spray them because they run too fast. My solution was a 32-20 S&W revolver. You take an empty case, put a primer in it and about a grain (I'm going from memory here) of a fast powder like AA #2 in it. Then you take uncooked grits and fill it to the top. Seal the end with tissue paper and nail polish or 1/2 a medicine capsule and you have a shot shell that will blow them to smitherenes without waking the neighbors. It won't hurt the drapes but if your drywall is textured it will blast the texture right off. I wear glasses but never had any bounce back hard enough to hurt. Grits granules probably have a pretty bad BC.

We also made them from .32 S&W Longs and even made some with more propellant in .30 Carbine cases. Those were for shooting them off the eaves of the house at night. You can shine their eyes with a flashlight.

We tried 38 Specials but the extra bore size wasn't needed and it required too much powder to be "quiet."

When we redid our kitchen last summer (different house), I made a few up just in case. Sure enough, we found the great grandma of all brown recluses inside the space for the dishwasher. We asked for no quarter and we gave none. Blew her to bits right there in the kitchen.

I'm sure that somebody else on this forum must have done the same thing. How come I'm the only one that admits to it?

Check your local game laws before hunting spiders with a flashlight.

Diabetes reduces the effectiveness of the body's imune system.

That and tissue does not want to heal as rapidly in diabetics. With the acquaintance of mine the wound kept getting worse, eventually getting into his bone marrow.

A previous poster mentioned grand daddy longlegs.

I have read, but do not know it for a fact, that these spiders are deadly poisionious, much more so than a snake or any other spider.

The only reason few people are bitten by them is because their mouth is so small.

Been bit twice by a Brown Recluse. Never bothered me much.

So, what's your point ??