Date: 7/21/2005 11:06:00 AM
From Authorid: 62849
I have no idea.. but it's just living in your sink? I'd kill it with a shoe or something and hope it was just one that strayed from the otherwise elusive group... -Beags  |
Date: 7/21/2005 11:08:00 AM
From Authorid: 56369
Thats creepy! They live in packs... OF TWENTY PLUS??? Kill the whole species if you ask me. I DO NOT like spiders  |
Date: 7/21/2005 11:08:00 AM
From Authorid: 28848
I found one crawling on my shoulder while at the swimming pool two days ago. Nearly scared me to death! I don't know how you would get rid of them. Call your local hardware store or maybe a pest control company and ask them what you should do.  |
Date: 7/21/2005 11:12:00 AM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 44850
See, if it wasn't poisonous, I wouldn't care that much. But, if you do a google image search on Brown Recluse spider bites, you'll understand why I am concerned.  |
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Date: 7/21/2005 11:15:00 AM
From Authorid: 28848
Yeah just ask Wooden Nickel.... |
Date: 7/21/2005 11:18:00 AM
From Authorid: 24924
Call an exterminating company, tell them you want to buy some "TRAPPER" monitor & insect traps, which are made by Bell Laboratories, Inc.. These are terrific! About every few months I put out fresh new ones (behind the sofa, in between the washer and dryer, between the refrigerator and cabinets, under the beds, etc.) and they are full when I go to change them. They have a very sticky substance on them and when the spider crawls inside they are stuck and die. Believe me, I tried everything before, and this really works best.  |
Date: 7/21/2005 11:18:00 AM
From Authorid: 16845
the more cleaning you do the more liable they are to come out in the open....they don't like the ruckus....go to your garden store and get glue traps...they make them specifically for spiders...they work wonders.  |
Date: 7/21/2005 11:41:00 AM
From Authorid: 36967
Basically, the Brown Recluse Spider is around Texas and surrounding States. Texas, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arizonia, these are the states that will have the Brown Recluse Spider. I see you are from Nebraska, Though Offically, they are not suppose to be in your area, but I guess it is possible you may have them in your area. Alot of cases, many people mistake the Wolf Spider for a Brown Recluse Spider. The Wolf Spider will have a similar Marking on it's Cephalothorax, sometimes adds to the comfussion. Here are main differences, a Wolf Spider will be Hairy, although a Brown Recluse is hairy somewhat, not nearly like a Wolf Spider(one reason why they are called Wolf Spiders). A brown Recluse will have more of a Geometric shape of a web, A wolf spider in most cases does not spin a web, exept for defense, or taking food.  |
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Date: 7/21/2005 11:42:00 AM
From Authorid: 36967
If the Spider is living in the drians, just turn on the spicket, either the spider will leave, if it has not been drowned out. |
Date: 7/21/2005 11:53:00 AM
From Authorid: 13283
Call Orkin . I had a friend die from a bite from the brown recluse . The lil sucker has a marking that looks like a violin . They are lethal . I got bit by a spider once . I lived to tell about it , the bite just made me a lil dizzy . Razzy aka  |
Date: 7/21/2005 11:58:00 AM
From Authorid: 49689
Calling an exterminator is really the only way you can get rid of them,once they have become established...Hedge Apples? I knew they worked on mice,but not on spiders....  |
Date: 7/21/2005 11:59:00 AM
From Authorid: 8024
got bit by one of those the flesh seems to rot around the wound ... not a pleasant bite.. c  |
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Date: 7/21/2005 12:01:00 PM
From Authorid: 8024
you may not like spiders but the kill many different pests in our world.. without the spider ..we most likely would survive in this world .. c |
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Date: 7/21/2005 12:02:00 PM
From Authorid: 8024
we most likely WOULDN'T .. typo...c |
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Date: 7/21/2005 12:47:00 PM
From Authorid: 36967
CC28, good point |
Date: 7/21/2005 12:55:00 PM
From Authorid: 62579
The Black Widows are the ones with the violin shape under the tummy. Info found online: The female Black Widow is shiny black, usually with a reddish hourglass shape on the underside of her spherical abdomen. I have thought that we had Brown Recluse spiders before...they were wolf spiders but they sure look like the real thing...scary looking little critters!! It definitely could be the real thing in your sink YIKES! I have read that regular bug spray will not kill them. Put some rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle and keep it on the sink....when u see it spray the spider....it should kill it.  |
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Date: 7/21/2005 12:56:00 PM
From Authorid: 62579
Call Orkin for your protection |
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Date: 7/21/2005 12:57:00 PM
From Authorid: 62579
Or at least kill one and have someone ID it as the real thing first. |
Date: 7/21/2005 12:57:00 PM
From Authorid: 47218
not to mention, the recluse bite doesn't always cause necrosis and that other spider species within the US are thought to cause bites mistaken for recluse bites in areas that do not contain these spiders. Recluses are limited strictly to the south.  |
Date: 7/21/2005 1:21:00 PM
From Authorid: 24924
Aren't the brown recluse spiders rather light brown, rather luminous in color? Also, don't they mostly like to be in cool, dry, places, like file cabinets with old papers and stuff? Yeah, I do know they do not like to be disturbed. I have a room that I use for storage, and is for quite some time badly in need of clearing out. Since I have a horrible phobia of spiders, I've simply not been able to bring myself to even go in there. I just toss stuff in. Or, I reach in and quickly grab a suitcase, or something I might need and dash back out. I just know there are spiders in there.  |
Date: 7/21/2005 1:37:00 PM
From Authorid: 59876
open the door thinker and lob several (as in maybe 25 of em lol )of those trappers in there, then shut the door and wait about a month. that's what i'd do lol  |
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Date: 7/21/2005 1:38:00 PM
From Authorid: 59876
something interesting i read about black widow spiders (which are here in california in abundance) is that you can only get the antivenin for it once. i could not find the info though that explained if you would never need it again, as in still protected, if bitten a second time, or if one would just be out of luck in that regard. |
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Date: 7/21/2005 1:43:00 PM
From Authorid: 59876
here is an excellent brown recluse resource and it actually does have a fiddle shaped mark. scary looki little bugger lol http://www.brown-recluse.com/spiderinfo.html |
Date: 7/21/2005 1:56:00 PM
From Authorid: 35114
Well, you said there was only one, so just throw it outside. I had one in my closet once and haven't seen one since...  |
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Date: 7/21/2005 2:09:00 PM
From Authorid: 47218
They're not aggressive spiders, Doheney, so bites aren't that common and the venom, though very painful, is rarely fatal to healthy individuals. I had a friend when I was a kid who was bitten on his eyelid. His eye looked something awful but he was fine a few days. |
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Date: 7/21/2005 2:26:00 PM
From Authorid: 8024
if you take a pic of the spider I know I can I d it ,, c .. Entomology comes in handy .. |
Date: 7/21/2005 2:30:00 PM
From Authorid: 59876
you mean the black widows? i haven't ever known anyone bitten by one. they seem pretty solitary and non agressive and even though they seem solitary, you might see dozens of them in one place as was the case of under my husband's parent's well cover or under the edge of the fence at our farmhouse. we occasionally find one in the house here which creeps me out, i don't want them in the house in any case lol. the info i've read so far on brown recluses says that they are not in our area (northern california) but somewhat in the southern end. i'm pretty sure we've seen one before, but i can't think of where we might have. maybe my husband's parents place. they have all sorts of nasty critters there. they live on the edge of a somewhat arid national forrest. weirdest things i saw up there were thew ceiling of the porch liberally dotted with tarrantulas for which there seems to be a season, and once i was out on their back porch talking on the phone and i heard a loud thump on the outdoor table. a great horned beetle had landed on the table and i had never seen one in my life. i do believe i screamed lol. i tried to move it away from me with my shoe and it started climbing up my shoe. i do believe i screamed again lol. nasty looking litlle critter lol. as far as i knew, black widow spider bites aren't really dangerous at all unless one was very young or immunosuppressed and as you said, it isn't common. thank you for the info mollycat  |
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Date: 7/21/2005 2:34:00 PM
From Authorid: 59876
spider myths specifically mentions california as well http://spiders.ucr.edu/myth.html |
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Date: 7/21/2005 2:35:00 PM
From Authorid: 59876
from that site "The spider that poses the greatest health threat to humans in California is the black widow spider, Latrodectus hesperus. Before antivenom was available, bites from these spiders caused death in about 5% of the cases. " 5% sounds pretty low |
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Date: 7/21/2005 2:41:00 PM
From Authorid: 59876
"Every month in California, more people are diagnosed as having brown recluse bites than the total number of brown recluse spiders EVER collected in the state." LMAO! that's probably true. california seems to have it's own special brand of paranoid hysteria lol. okay, i'm done, i swear it lol |
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Date: 7/21/2005 2:42:00 PM
From Authorid: 24924
Thanks for the link. Rather delicate, all legs looking things. I definitely have brown recluses here in the house. I find them at my mom's house in KY too. I was bitten by one back in 1995 on my lower leg. I had to go to the ER as my leg had this big ole red hunking hole in it. Nasty looking necrosis it was. Took a long time to heal. |
Date: 7/21/2005 3:18:00 PM
From Authorid: 31765
No one ever tells animals where they're supposed to be "officially". I lived in WA and OR and we had them there. Not a spider to mess with.  |
Date: 7/21/2005 3:48:00 PM
From Authorid: 27583
i was bitten by a brown recluse , they were going to remove my finger first then my hand but they got it under controll with daily iv's and dressings with special fluids on them. also had to do abarements and reconstruction on the area. not fun... wooden nickel  |
Date: 7/21/2005 4:29:00 PM
From Authorid: 7341
Put it down the garbage disposal!!!! That's what I do anyways...  |
Date: 7/21/2005 11:41:00 PM
From Authorid: 63042
KILL IT ASAP!!! Seriously. i got bit by one 3 years ago, i'll spare you with the details, but i still get re-infections with it. i live in Illinois, where they are rare, but one still found me. Just do whatever you have to do to get rid of them!! -asylem_supastar  |
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Date: 7/22/2005 2:21:00 PM
From Authorid: 36967
Lady Phoenix, true. The area I gave is the natural habbitat, the brown recluse can natural survive and adapt to any climate, even the very hot and very cold coditions. With the cars and airplanes moving around these things could be anywhere. |
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Date: 7/22/2005 2:24:00 PM
From Authorid: 36967
Doheney, is that the site that states Lime Disease is the number one mistaken for a brown recluse bite. |
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Date: 7/22/2005 9:04:00 PM
From Authorid: 59876
yeah, it lists lyme disease and a few others. the info seem accurate but the site is mostly a plug for their product. honestly, i don't think i'd try something herbal (and i love herbals) on something that serious before seeing a doctor. |
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Date: 7/22/2005 9:05:00 PM
From Authorid: 59876
i found an even better link, i'll post it in a bit. |
Date: 7/17/2007 10:08:00 AM
From Authorid: 63962
How do hedge apples help? How interesting!   |
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Date: 7/17/2007 10:12:00 AM
From Authorid: 63962
There are jellyfish that are considered the most poisonous animal in the world, and believe it or not, the effects of their bites and the pain you suffer (beyond agonizing from what I've read) would make a B.R. bite feel like a day at the park!! LOL |
