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Post by rockyraccoon on Jul 3, 2004 14:18:17 GMT -5
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Post by docone31 on Jul 3, 2004 14:43:47 GMT -5
The brown recluse is a very dangerous spider. When I had my shop in Key West, I was bitten while I slept. The pain was incredible. Two weeks later, not knowing what it was, the toe that had been bitten had an hole going through it. It took alcohol, steel wool, and four weeks of daily abraiding the skin almost to the bone to eliminate the bite. I have permanent scarring. The recluse bite contains a protein that multiplies. The more tissue it affects, the more protein is manufactured. A good friend from where we last came from got a bite on his inner thigh. Four years later he just got out of his second surgical procedure. This time a bone graft, muscle splice, skin grafting and a might need another. Do not take those little critters easily.
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bwalters
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Post by bwalters on Jul 3, 2004 14:50:27 GMT -5
Kim, Be glad you saw it instead of putting your shorts on with him inside them! I was bitten by one several years ago. Took MONTHS to heal, and now I have a bullethole shaped scar inside my knee.
I would stay with the shaking/stomping thing if I were you!
BE
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Post by rockyraccoon on Jul 3, 2004 16:50:49 GMT -5
doc and barbara i don't ever want to know firsthand about one of these bites. i'm telling myself that he had to walk through the poison against the baseboards to get up there and that his time is limited cause i'm not sticking my hands up in there to look for him. but i haven't seen him anywhere dead yet and i'm still in my pj's because i'm washing and drying what i'm fixing to wear . for those who are not sure - this is where they live: emedicinehealth.com/images/4453/4453-4474-10729-25038.jpgthis is what they look like (and this is way blown up - you can't see that violin easily as they run by): www.death-valley.us/modules/dv_gallery/dv_sets/album43/ady.jpgand this is what the bite will do (if you are weak stomached run for your life and don't look at this): sulfursoap.com/spider/d6.jpgwww.budgetpestcontrol.com/images/Day9.jpgi hate them!! i'm considering spraying some aeresol pyrethin up in there but this will not kill them only aggravates them and they start running and then get in the wetable powder against the baseboards. i did this when i first identified we had a big problem with them and they were running everywhere & up the furniture and i was having nightmares slept sitting in the recliner holding my child until the man could get here to start the treatment. kim
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Post by BearCreekLapidary on Jul 3, 2004 18:07:51 GMT -5
Hello Kim,
We have them here where I live as well, in southwestern Kansas. I used to work with a kid that was bit on the thigh (left leg) and that was one of the worst things that I can remember seeing in a very long time.
He was a nut case and has a very sick sense of humor. It never failed ... lunch came around and he just had to clean his wound ... needless to say, luch went way side!
The photo's are just like what he had to deal with, he said that he would go through 200 Q-tips a week cleaning the infection out. It was nasty ...
Be careful with those spiders ... they are dangerous.
I'll send you a personal message on a substance that will knock those spiders in the dirt ... but it is going to be extremely hard to locate any, as it has been banned for years. It can still be found ... but it's tough.
Be careful,
John
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Post by hermatite on Jul 3, 2004 19:42:54 GMT -5
I'd be sitting in the chair holding my child too! God, I'm in NH and that's what I'm doing. I hate bugs..spiders are the worst. Shudder....SHUDDER I tell ya.
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shorty
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Post by shorty on Jul 3, 2004 20:12:35 GMT -5
hi all rockey we have them in michigan up northern part i have seen them in my yard before nastey things.
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shorty
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Post by shorty on Jul 3, 2004 20:17:25 GMT -5
ha bearcreek let me now what that stuf is to please thank you shorty
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mrflake
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Post by mrflake on Jul 4, 2004 2:12:21 GMT -5
I have a friend who just moved to the states (Washington) for work reasons, if I send her this link she will be on the next plane home, how can you sleep at night with these friends of satan running about? ? Keep me in Britain, we have one venomous snake and that generally legs it ( er...legs....wrong term I mean slithers it) as soon as it hears you. In fact very few people ever see one in the wild over here.
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deepsouth
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Post by deepsouth on Jul 4, 2004 18:11:51 GMT -5
Wow , your spider is much worse than our gentle NZ-Katipo , which is related to the american black widow, and the australian redback
Not deadly but nasty just the same, the female that is. And lives mostly near beaches under logs, but they are rare and bites are very few. I feel for you
Jack
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Trouthunter
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Post by Trouthunter on Jul 6, 2004 11:33:57 GMT -5
Bad news MrFlake:
I live in Washington and we have those %@$# things here. I grew up in the San Joaquin Valley in California with rattlesnakes, tarantulas and black widows, and none of them freak me out nearly as much as brown recluses.
Luckily, we don't seem to get really bad infestations, and bites are relatively rare here.
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shorty
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Post by shorty on Jul 6, 2004 17:42:54 GMT -5
hi all trouthunter you say they have them nastey things in washington .. shorty
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Post by krazydiamond on Jul 6, 2004 19:00:43 GMT -5
hmmmmm...thinkin' about selling your west coast property, shorty?
spiders live under rocks. (in the dark and damp and icky places.....).
KD
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Post by hermatite on Jul 7, 2004 12:16:37 GMT -5
spiders live .... (in the dark and damp and icky places.....).
LMAO...I know KD isn't casting aspersions on rocky's shorts...but oh man! I'm dying laughing here
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Post by Banjocreek on Jul 7, 2004 12:37:50 GMT -5
Funny this topic should come up. A nurse who helps take care of my daughter just got bit this weekend. They bring firewook from up north into the house. They figure thats how it got in. That open festering part of the bite is now the size of a silver dollar and the redness covers an area larger than a basketball. She got bit on her stomach and the open area is oozing and swollen. She has to cover it with a 4x4 gauze, and she says it just won't dry up, and it hurts and itches at the same time. Looks almost like a close range shotgun blast. Naaaaaaaaaaaaaasty!
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Post by llanago on Jul 7, 2004 18:06:16 GMT -5
My mom got bit by one of these little monsters on her lower calf back in the mid 70's. I wasn't living at home when it happened, so don't know what it was like when it first happened, but I do know that periodically it would fester up, get red, get larger and hurt like the thingyens. Although it didn't bother her all the time, when it flared up, it was really painful and gross looking.
Those brown recluse are nasty little critters. Heck, I would rather face a rattlesnake than one of those little devils.
llana
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shorty
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Post by shorty on Jul 7, 2004 20:24:08 GMT -5
kd no im not gona sell the land i just would like to now whats out there cant be to careful i live in michigan . we dont have a lot of the stuf they have out there. and we have some diferent stuf here. shorty
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shorty
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Post by shorty on Jul 7, 2004 20:35:47 GMT -5
and kd i sure do now where spiters live . im not that stupped .but i guess a boy living in town would really be a expert so thanks for letting me now. i hav lived in michigen all my life and i wasent asking about oregon it was my family in washigton .i was concerned about ..shorty
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