Spider misidentified

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The real deadly spider is a baaad boy. Here's some wiki-facts:

Although rare, there have been instances of the spider depositing its nearly microscopic eggs in the ears and other orifices of human beings.[2]
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Aside from causing intense pain, the venom of the spider can also cause priapism - uncomfortable erections that can last for many hours and lead to impotence.

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http://www.rr.com/news/news/ar...spider_misidentified

The real deadly spider is a baaad boy. Here's some wiki-facts:

Although rare, there have been instances of the spider depositing its nearly microscopic eggs in the ears and other orifices of human beings.[2]
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And...

Aside from causing intense pain, the venom of the spider can also cause priapism - uncomfortable erections that can last for many hours and lead to impotence.

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Originally posted by sparky9:

Aside from causing intense pain, the venom of the spider can also cause priapism - uncomfortable erections that can last for many hours and lead to impotence.
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There's a Jim Shugart joke in there somewhere, but I'm going to be a nice guy and let it slide.
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And to think that my wife kept telling our son not to believe me when I'd tell him that there were spiders that would lay eggs in his skull and eat him from the inside. Well maybe that isn't the best bedtime story, but still...
 
Swallowed a spider to catch the fly, but I don't know why she swallowed the fly, perhaps she'll die.

Well then, good night.
 
....is that anything like a barking spider....
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Brian~
 
In Oregon, and I'm sure in other states, we have this nasty little spidi call the Brown Recluse. The generally live under barns or houses and in woodpiles. To the best of my knoowledge, I've never run across one. A few people have been bitten around the state and those cases resulted in the bite victim gatting gangrene that require a lot of cutting and flesh removal. Pays to look when you put you hands.
 
JWard was a forum member here who was bitten by a recluse spider and died from the complications. He is still missed.
 
Originally posted by truckemup97:
Originally posted by sparky9:

Aside from causing intense pain, the venom of the spider can also cause priapism - uncomfortable erections that can last for many hours and lead to impotence.
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There's a Jim Shugart joke in there somewhere, but I'm going to be a nice guy and let it slide.
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Me too.
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I keep waiting for the "most spiders are good and beneficial, and should be preserved" thread drift....
 
Originally posted by beemerrider:
In Oregon, and I'm sure in other states, we have this nasty little spidi call the Brown Recluse. The generally live under barns or houses and in woodpiles. To the best of my knoowledge, I've never run across one. A few people have been bitten around the state and those cases resulted in the bite victim getting gangrene that require a lot of cutting and flesh removal. Pays to look when you put you hands.
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We got them little buggers up here in New England too. They have a black marking on their back that resembled the shape of a fiddle. Woodpiles are a favorite hangout for these critters.


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Although I don't usealy care for this phrase, when it comes to spiders it fits perfectly.

"Kill 'em all, let God sort them out."
 
My son was bitten by a Brown Recluse two years ago. He almost lost his left leg. He has a nice scar where he was bitten. It is something he will never forget. Nasty little spiders.
 
About 20 years ago we went to an old junkyard out in the country. We'd visited it before, and while it had hard to find stuff, it was overpriced. Then the county got after the guy and made him clean up his mess. He called a buddy and said if we wanted anything, come visit before the crusher got there. We bought a bunch of differentials out of old jeeps and Scouts. Took them to the buddy's house for parting out.

As we took off one wheel, there was a huge spider, complete with the red hourglass on its back. I had a cutting torch in my hand when my buddy yelled. I lit the acetylene, no oxygen yet, and toasted the spidey. He made a very statisfying "POP" as he lit up!
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Bye-bye spidey. The world is a better place.
 
I've run across them both (bown recluse and black widow) in the wild. Never got bit by either one, or not yet anyway.
When I was a kid, one day in my parents garage a spider in a corner of a window-one of those brown ones that spin those funnel shaped webs-jumped on my hand and bit me. It moved with lightnin fast speed and did it before I could even react. That bite hurt worse than any bee sting I ever experienced, top of my hand got all swollen up for a day or so, but I was fine after that.
A few years later at an archery range I went to get my arrows out of a target. The target fell off the stand when I pulled, and it dropped to the ground. There on the back, a web, black and shiny, and an unmistakable red hourglass. Both the brown recluse and the black widow are scarce here in New England, but they are here.
Hard to "preserve" a gooey smear on the bottom of one's shoe, isn't it?
 
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