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I have no compassion...kill'em all! Any in my house get killed, if I can. Outside, unless they've made a web across where I walk, I generally leave them alone. They catch and kill skeeters and gnats.
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Saw one the size of a toddler's hand crawling around on my ceiling last week in my bedroom. Freaked me out. Went for the fly swat, but he was positioned just above a tall piece of furniture, so it was hard to get at him. Swatted at him, but he dodged it and dashed into the central air/heat vent. Haven't seen him since, but didn't sleep soundly for a few nights. I predict that this post may live in infamy......... forever.
Never holler whoa or look back in a tight place
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I have no compassion...kill'em all! MRSA ?
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One morning...recovering from a hangover....I hear the Girlfriend screaming. I went back to sleep.
It just so happens, i had cut my hand severely the week before...She called me....called me again....Then grabbed my hand. I's AWAKE.
She hands me a flyswatter and directs me to the bathroom....Says "There it is, Kill it"
Well, I got big hands....This critter was darn near half the size of one of my paws. I figured I needed a little more ammunition for this beast so I took the hat off my head and clobbered it. Then clobbered it again. I think i hit that thing like 6 or 7 times.
The crisis finally ended, I went out into the tool shed and brought in the Entrenching tool....Scooped up the remains and tossed it out the back door. I swear I heard a "Thud" when it hit the ground.
Wolf spiders.............Gotta love 'em.
Don't let the name fool Ya!
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Damn looks like a recluse bite ! That's what I figure, too. They just rot the living flesh away, and keep doing so for years after the bite. A veterinarian discovered a way to prevent that, though. He discovered that if you inject the bite site with cortisone steroid all around it, multiple injections, that it will heal it right up with little to no damage, so long as you do it within the first few hours after the bite.
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spider bite expert now too huh?
Liberalism is a mental disorder that leads to social disease.
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Shot went over your head............I am sure it is true...but trh is the world's eggspurt on every subject...just wait and watch
Liberalism is a mental disorder that leads to social disease.
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Believe me, I've read enough here to know what you're saying.
I just posted the link for the benefit of the campfire forum members. A recluse bite is a biitch, and this treatment saved a friend's arm.
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I have no compassion...kill'em all! MRSA ? no, its brown recluse venom, causes the body to have an autoimmune response and the body starts destroying healthy tissue.... i would rather take a hit from a copperhead than a brown recluse....
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Last edited by justin10mm; 05/21/13.
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I have no compassion...kill'em all! MRSA ? no, its brown recluse venom, causes the body to have an autoimmune response and the body starts destroying healthy tissue.... i would rather take a hit from a copperhead than a brown recluse.... Not according to this. http://www.australianmuseum.net.au/Brown-Recluse-Spider-email-hoax/
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you believe that, which is just talking about Australia, ill believe the scientists studying the spiders, specifically their venom....and keep in mind that page you just linked has no peer reviewed medical papers attached to it....has a couple of news stories on the bottom.... do like the one story saying a house is loaded with recluse and no bites.....i lived on a property loaded with black widows and never got bit...doesnt mean they arent venomous....
Last edited by rattler; 05/21/13.
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Hello Rattler, I was under the impression that the Recluse spider carried a bacterium in it's saliva/venom that causes the necrosis?
These are my opinions, feel free to disagree.
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no, its not a bacterium, its a protien in the venom setting off a localized autoimmune response which is why as noted above, the application of steroids seems to help....the body is turning on itself like it does in rheumatoid arthritis or lupus.......
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Good sized spider can bring out the Edwin Kemper in me.
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I'm glad to know there are other spider haters. I figured it was just a thing with guys named Les (I'm a Les too). I friggen hate the bastids everyone of them I don't care what type of where they are. I do enjoy hunting them with my S&W model 63, 22lr ratshot is perfect for the bastids, ewww gives me chills thinking about them...
Will Munny: It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. Take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have.
The Schofield Kid: Yeah, well, I guess they had it coming.
Will Munny: We all got it coming, kid.
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You do realize the one you whacked was just a scout, right?
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It's the smaller ones that seem dangerous in these parts - ain't had the full spider experience until a BR hits you in a bad place.
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Hello Rattler, I was under the impression that the Recluse spider carried a bacterium in it's saliva/venom that causes the necrosis? Not according to the medical literature. Like I said, it's mostly likely something else, probably MRSA. The spider bite/necrotizing fasciitis myth was dispelled years ago. http://www.amednews.com/article/20020805/health/308059999/4/
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