Interesting spider

[shouldazagged]

Years ago a friend of mine pulled on his boots without shaking them out and there was a brown recluse in one of them. He nearly lost his foot--it was touch and go for some time. They are extremely dangerous.

 

[Mr Pokeyman]

3 years ago I put my right hand into an old glove that had been lying on an outside window ledge, I was going to pull some weeds. I felt a bite on my index finger (trigger finger) and I slapped it with the other hand but didn't bother looking. When I was thru working I took the glove off and I was stunned. My finger was swollen and I couldn't see the knuckles of the index and middle finger. There was a hole where the bite had occurred and blood and puss was oozing out. I checked the glove but couldn't see anything resembling a spider, just some little smashed thing. I just cleaned the finger and put antibiotic creme on it. The next day the whole hand was swollen like it was broken. Now, here is the really crazy thing. I went outside and a large bee stung me on the exact spot where I had been bit. I then went to the hospital emergency room. The doctor said I had been bitten by a Brown Recluse and combined with the Bee sting, I would be lucky to keep my finger. I was on all kinds of antibiotics for over 6 mths. At one point the infection caused the skin to break open and I could see the bone. The poison spread into the middle finger and up to the wrist. 3 yrs later I still have scarring on both fingers and it is still sensitive. At one point I asked the doctors to remove the finger but they refused. I considered doing it myself but didn't have the nerve.

 

[boykinlp]

We very badly need an "unlike" button for some of these stories!!

 

[Arik]

I got bit by a large dog last year. By the sound of some of your stories i'll pick the dog bite over a spider bite

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[David LaPell]

We had a kid a couple years back come into jail who had been out hiking the week before he got arrested. He was actually very smart in the outdoors and he saw the spider and knew it was a brown recluse. When he came into jail the bit was about the size of a nickel and infected. It was on his belt line on his back. I had to take him down to the medical office every couple of days when I was assigned to that and it got bigger and bigger and then turned into a hole in his back. He went to the hospital a couple times and the biggest I saw that hole was probably about 8 inches around and it was completely rotted and infected. It took him months for it to finally start to regress and he still had not healed up when he left jail almost a year in. They are nasty customers in all respects.

 

[jkc]

Can't most jumping spiders bite the ding-dong crapola out of you??

Your syntax is confused --- they can bite the crapola out of your ding-dong!

 

[John Frederick Bell]

A while back I came home from work and found this on the front porch.

With luck most of them made it. Wolf spiders are good at keeping the black widow population in check...never did figure out why the world needed the black widow or the brown recluse. Something off about a species that small walking around with a biological weapon strapped to its back.

Seems off to me.

 

[sasu]

The spider pictured in David's post is apparently a Daring Jumping Spider, Phiddipus audax. It stalks its prey, rather than building a web trap, and pounces, from distances as great as two feet, trailing a silk recovery line. They purportedly have the best eyesight of any spiders, and ought to, with eight eyes! Absolutely creepy photos are easily found, as well as is a YouTube clip showing one following the red dot of light from a laser pointer, similar to a cat!

Look at a jumping spider with a magnification device and it will stare back at you. They are cute and harmless.

 

[ErnieDeBord]

taste like chicken

 

[153]

I was going to go out and buy a gallon of "Raid". No make that two gallons!