Brown Recluse. Anyone else have the pleasure?

Until now, I'd only known one person that got bit by a brown
recluse. That looks Really nasty.
If I hear of any around here, I''ll be loading up on
sticky traps.
TACC1
 
Bad looking wound area. Surely you sought medical help because the brown recluse really does damage to the tissues. I don't need to tell you this from the looks of your arm. I hope you get well from this. We have lots of brown recluse (fiddleback) spiders around here and I kill them quite regularly. The people that spray for spiders and insects say there is not really anything that they have as far as chemicals that kill them. I don't know. Good luck to you.
 
I keep tarantulas. And most spiders I really am into. I will shoo them or sweep them out, or sometimes catch in a cup and watch for a day or so...

However, genus latrodectus I do not play with. If they get in my house it is their death sentence. VIOLENT death sentence.

Hope you are feeling better soon.

Some females of this genus--like the black widow-- can have venom 3x as potent as males.

I find this also true in humans.
 
Had a friend that was bitten on his hand. Waited several days before going to the doctor and he ended up losing three fingers and the rest of his hand was deformed after the healing. Nothing to mess with that's for sure.
 
Get to a doctor NOW

Leadpoison GET TO A DOCTOR NOW.


I have seen several of these bites in South Florida.

I had a member of my Bass Club bitten on the fore arm. He ignored it. Finally went to a doctor. It took over a year to heel.

I also saw a member in the AF Reserve bittern on the calf. He almost lost the leg. He did finally get out of the reserves he couldn't travel. It took over 4 years before all was well. Hard to believe but it's true. Horrible scar but he is okay.

Old wives cure circulating in South Florida. Zap the area with a Taser, I'm not sure how successful this has been but the guy in my Basd Club did it.

Dan :D
 
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I have a 10" tarantula with 1" fangs.

Her name is Freya.

I hope you smashed Big Charlotte with a Warner Bros. Acme Anvil.
 
My son was bitten by one. Upper left leg, a few inches to the left of his family jewels. If the poison had spread to his femoral artery, he might have lost his leg. I believe it was the Health Department who searched the house he was sharing with two friends. They found an infestation of the spiders and had the house tented and fumigated.
 
Got nailed on the right upper arm about 5 years ago. Within 24 hours I had a hard swollen knot the size of a golf ball, oozing puss, red lines shooting up the arm, itching and aching. Went to the ER, received two injections and a prescription (don't recall the medications now). Within a week I was back to normal, although with a permanent scar at the site of the bite.

Nasty little critters. Take good care of yourself.
 
My next door neighbor was bitten on the leg years ago by a recluse. Apparently it was in work boots he usually left on his job at a steel mill. Pretty long recovery and initially involved flesh removal.
 
TACC1 said:
Until now, I'd only known one person that got bit by a brown
recluse. That looks Really nasty.
If I hear of any around here, I''ll be loading up on
sticky traps.
TACC1
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Lucky for us Recluse spiders don't like the cold! I don't know how I could ever live around a bad spider like that.... :(

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Around here, brown recluses are also called: Banjo Spiders. In 85, I had a new girlfriend and we were sitting on her parents house's front porch with said parents. They were drinking (Milwaukees Best) and the dad was rather tipsy-got bit by a B.R never knew it. Well, The next day he had a classic "target" on his calf--was getting a nasty fever. I told him he should go see a Dr-but he refused claiming he could beat a fever. The day after-his bite also got to be as large as a hard-boiled egg-red as heck, rings turning yelllow and black and oozing. He figured he would overcome it by resting for almost two weeks-and one day we found him passed out. Tried to wake him and nothing--called an Ambulance and they got him to the ER in time. Had we waited a few more hours and he would have died. They took off about half of his calf area and took him about a year to get around freely again.

I had an incident with one in my home last year. I was sitting in the living room in the dark watching something on the TV when I noticed my Cat playing around and jumping around with something in the corner of the room next to my front door.

I turned the light on and saw her batting at something small and brown and very irritated. I pulled her away as fast as possible and wadded up a large rag into a ball to kill it with since i had no insecticide as I had just moved into the home about 3 days before. Well, the damned thing moved fast and I THOUGHT I had killed it and removed my hand quicker than greased lightning (never knew I could move so fast_ when that brown ball came alive and almost got my hand. I grabbed the nearest thing I could that was in can form (Lysol Spray) sprayed the hell out of it and it curled into a ball, and I grabbed a show and hit it till it was a stain on the floor. Talk about creating bricks :D Thankfully, no more in the house since then.

PS, hope you fully recover soon.
 
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