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You need a stun gun ready when you live where they live. You get bit use the stun gun on the bite. It is like a Jesus Christ miracle. I read the stun gun breaks down the protean of the poison.
I know they sure work on other spider and mosquito bites.

Ok, Dick Dastardly.

Do some google search.

Had an older friend who was bit by a Brown recluse. Killed him. Maybe several bites, been a long time. The family found a next of them in the box springs of his bed. I have no use for them. If I see a spider, I kill it.

All spiders are dead meat. Only good spider is a dead one squished.

I have a nice quarter sized/indented scar on my right calf from where I put a Lacrosse rubber boot on to go feed while wearing shorts. I didn't even feel it when it bit me. After a couple of days it was antibiotics and a trip for debridement and instructions on how to keep it clean as stuff rotted off.

One reason I tolerate mud daubers here.

They eat the hell out of black widow and recluse spiders.

Didn't know that. I'll quit wiping the daubers out around the house as we have both versions of spiders here. And more.

I generally don't have a problem with spiders, they eat a ton of insects and keep them in check so I leave them alone. I wouldn't want recluses around though...glad we don't have them here.



The mud dauber's have quite a few species, they target either caterpillars or spiders. I watched a blue mud dauber one time pull his trick on a spider. They must know how not to get tangled in the web, one I saw flew into the web. When the spider came out thinking it had a meal, WHAM...the dauber flipped around, stung the spider and flew off with it. I've seen the different types of mud nests on the house, I generally leave them. Everything has it's purpose and theirs is to keep caterpillars and spiders in check.

None here on the North Coast either. And no rattlers or copperheads. Thank God I don't live in the South.

up here in Northern Minnesota we just have frost bite ,not much for spiders or reptiles but plenty deer ticks ! glad we don`t have spider problems.

One got me on a heel of the foot some 40 years ago. I was on crutches for over six months. Still gives me some problems. A friend of mine, who was diabetic, died from his bite. It would not heal and worked its way into the bone marrow.

I got bit by one when I was stationed at Ft Lenard Wood Mo. Nasty critters.

My one brown recluse bite (diagnosed by the Dr.) started out as an itch on my thumb right behind the nail. I never knew when the bite happened. The next day it was a pimple the size of the head of a straight pin, still itched. Then it turned into a pimple with a white head which of course I opened and started medicating. By the 2nd morning the head was the size of a wooden pencil eraser and sore as hell. Went to the Dr. that day. It took over a month to heal minus quite a bit of skin!

I just read that SE Michigan is getting a few that have hitchhiked from other states when people come back from vacation. We have very few rattlesnakes or venomous spiders. I like it that way.

Got a spider bite in HS. Middle of lower back. Like fire. One of the few times mom took me to a doc.

Yellowjackets......did the Barney Bear outrun a tornado of em thing.

Outran most. Also back in HS.
Just itched, about 50 stings.

Years later, get stung.....once

And its run to the ER. Fugged me up.
Hives all over for a month after too.

Fugg all the bugs.
Ticks really creep me out btw.
The deadly to me yellowjackets......buzzing between fingers
when cleaning geese in early season....

Ice water in veins. They just buzz, too busy eating blood I reckon. Never stung. Scare the chit outta ya till it happens about a half doz times

I never personally have had an encounter with a Brown Recluse, but a friend of mine did. He was a motorcycle rider. One day when he went to work, riding down the Interstate on his sport bike, he had a sharp burning sensation on the side of his head, just behind the left ear. The damn thing was in his helmet. He found the spider when he took the helmet off as soon as he got to work. The next morning he went to the emergency room and went through a living hell for the next few months, almost losing his ear. He showed me the gory pictures of the rotting flesh on the side of his head. It really left an impression on me. I want NOTHING to do with a Brown Recluse. RJ

Go rent you a u haul and see how many of those things are in the moving blankets. Yeah no.

2sticks: Yikes!
That looks just like the spider that came out of my sleeping bag one morning as I was awakening for an Antelope Hunting day.
Luckily I had shot my Antelope the day before as my big toe swole up so bad that a week later I lost that toes toenail!
My partner and I had rented an old house there in Ingomar, Montana and once my toe got to hurting real bad we took a break and headed for Forsyth, Montana and bought "bug-spray".
Younger brother was also bitten on the toe by a spider (he thought Brown Recluse also) when he was living in Rocklin, kalifornicationkopia and he lost flesh from that bite.
Yep not much use for spiders in my opinion.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy