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Hi Mom2Boxers. According to Wikipedia, the brown recluse is limited to the lower Midwest, south to the gulf coast. Good pictures of recluse spiders. There are not supposed to be any recluse on the East coast. I get infections from regular spider bites, even blood poisoning a couple of times. I'm not sure why. Once you've seen a recluse you will never forget what one looks like. Recluse always look like they're standing at attention. They have small bodies with long, jointed legs. The abdomen ranges from cream to almost black with no markings. They have 3 sets of two eyes. That is their main distinction, since other spiders that may resemble them have eight eyes in four sets of two. When you've lived with as many as I have this year, you can tell one a mile away just by the way they stand. They are very non-aggressive and shy and the only reason people get bitten is they brush up against them. I had, literally, hundreds of them in the house and I only got bitten once, when I picked up a hand towel without shaking it first. She had climbed into its folds while it was laying there. I took the spider with me when I went to the emergency room, for identification. They gave me a strong antibiotic and antibiotic creme. I had almost no reaction other than itching. I've had much worse reactions from regular spider bites. The sticky traps are made to catch everything from bugs and spiders to mice. You find them with the insecticides at the grocery store. They're flat when you buy them and you fold them into little, open-ended boxes and put them all around the baseboards of your house. The recluse, liking tight hiding places, walk right in. My traps are full of every size from pin-head sized babies to some really big ones (big as recluse go . . . they're not a really large spider like the wolves that you DO have in Virginia.) The only good thing I can say is, there is not another bug or type of spider in any of the traps. The recluse saw to that. LOL!
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Wow, Bonnie, thanks for the info...we live in the woods and I am quite sure there are recluses here, just haven't seen any...not that I am complaining. I did take some pics last week of a wolf spider and grand daddy long legs fighting. The wolf spider won....it was an amazing thing to see actually! Hope you are having a fabulous day so far! Love and hugs my friend!
15 Nov 11 by member: ctlss
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Johanne, that is the ugliest spider..so sorry you had them in your home at one time..hope you never have to put up with them again..As for
kissing my cows..uh, uh, uh...Nah...they have wet noses..LOL....Love ya...♥♥
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I hope we don't have them in Michigan.......I don't feel like sorting those out, my hubby is a big baby with spiders so they are left up to me.....
15 Nov 11 by member: Yvonne19
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Stef, Im sure you probably do. The thing is, unless you have hundreds of them, like I did, you don't usually see them. The name means they stay hidden. I still have them, just not in the magnitude I did have. Love and hugs back dear friend.
16 Nov 11 by member: Johanne
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Hehe. Bren, I know cows have slimy noses. I was thinking of a forehead or an ear. The spiders are still here, they're just in reasonable numbers now, which means I will seldom see one. Love you too. I'm off to make my coffee so I can return your salute.
16 Nov 11 by member: Johanne
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Yvonne, supposedly, Missouri is the top of their range, so you shouldn't have to worry about them unless you move south. I'm with your hubby. I'm a big (HUGE) baby when it comes to spiders. That's why me touching that tarantula was such a big deal. Good morning dear friend.
16 Nov 11 by member: Johanne
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My mom-in-law had a recluse infestation at her house in Mississippi. No one was ever bitten, but we'd see them curled up dead in the corners of every room after she had her house sprayed. Creepy!
So how did your felting go?
16 Nov 11 by member: cocobutt
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Coco, when I lived in Northern Virginia, I thought I had a wolf spider infestation. I kept finding lots of dead ones curled up in the laundry room. It turned out I had one VERY big one. Spiders are like crabs. They sluff their shells when they are ready to grow. LOL!!! I was really relieved to know it was only one. They do have recluse in Mississippi. As I said, "You leave them alone, they leave you alone." My problem was, there were so many, I couldn't leave them alone. I bought new traps because the old ones are REALLY full, but I haven't seen any fresh ones in the traps for a few weeks. I have seen a few live ones loose and killed them. I'm glad your MIL got hers under control too. The felting is going slowly. I did a Christmas scarf this morning and put it in the washer to rinse it . . . on the wrong setting. It came out all glued together. I'm pretty bummed. I don't have any more of those colors. I'm getting ready to start another one in a few minutes. I've only got one more day to get any done before the sale.
16 Nov 11 by member: Johanne
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Oh my, Johanne! ... I got the heeby jeebies looking at that Recluse spider picture. Thanks for the awesome information. Now... I looked up those Wolf Spiders... and I am not sure I have seen one, nor do I want to. LOL!
What I have seen a lot of is a brown and black stripey looking spiders in the grass everywhere. Big meaty looking ones and smaller. Once I saw one carrying babies... but they try to hide in the grass. They will jump at you ... so they are aggressive. I have seen them back themselves into a little hole. Have heard of Trapdoor spiders. (Wonder if that is what bit me? I was kneeling in the grass when I was bit and never felt it.) I looked for a good pic of a wolf spider ... and I believe it said they hunt at night.
Spiders are everywhere out here because we live in a heavily wooded area and animals and critters are the majority. My husband doesn't seem to mind is a spider enters the house... but now that I know I have bad reactions to them... I freak out. People tell him.. "oh they don't bite" ... well, I am here to tell you... UH HUH! Spiders do bite. LOL!
16 Nov 11 by member: Mom2Boxers
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Yes, SPIDERS DO BITE. It's funny, you are much less likely to be bitten by a recluse than many others because they are usually so shy and, like wolf spiders, they hunt at night when we are asleep. All spiders inject venom. It's how they subdue and liquify their prey. When I get bitten, I usually get a nasty blister spot (small or large, depending on the size of the spider) and then an infection. I belong to a medieval recreation group, but when everyone else camps in pretty, period tents, much cooler but open to invasion by spiders, I put up a very hot, modern tent with nice tight zippers to close them out. I think the reason I didn't have a bad reaction to the one and only recluse bite I know I've had is because I was in the emergency room within 30 minutes of being bitten and on an antibiotic and antibiotic cream within an hour. We are fortunate in most of the United States that we have few spiders who's venom can actually cause illness or death but they can all cause itchy, infected reactions. Spiders can be so interesting, but they're SO CREEPY! Even knowing how valuable they are in keeping down pest populations, I can't stand to live with them in the house.
17 Nov 11 by member: Johanne
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I hate spiders with a passion. I still have the chills just from getting a glimpse of the picture. I once got bit by a wolf spider, I believe, on my forearm which now has a nice finger sized dent into the muscle. It's quite interesting, but it still doesn't help my fear...lol You are much braver than I in your escapades :-)
17 Nov 11 by member: Jpsfunkymojo
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I am in the midwest (Illinois to be specific) and we have had two people from our factory treated for brown recluse spider bites in the last couple of months. With today's national trucking and logistics, nothing ever stays where it's supposed to be. BTW, I hate spiders whether they have passion or not. LOL.
17 Nov 11 by member: DairyKing
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Mojo, nothing helps me with my fear either. It's the only phobia I know I have. @King, LOL, the recluse I had must have had passion, or how else could they have built up such a huge population in my house.You're right. I don't know how the people who build demographics on things decide where things are and where things aren't. It seems to me that recluse COULD hitch a ride, just like anything else. I guess they go by how many of something is actually captured. As I said, I took the spider that got me with me to the emergency room for identification and a have traps full of hundreds of them to prove that's what's filling my house. By the way, from what I understand, the arachnid we call a "daddy long legs" is actually one of the most poisonous. It's just that its fangs aren't long enough to bite humans.
17 Nov 11 by member: Johanne
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