I live in North Texas and I (honest to God) kill about 5-10 of those a month in my house..... We've sprayed but still find them wondering about. Man, they can be hard to catch too as they are pretty fast across the floor and such. However, they are very flimsy spiders....
If I ever feel something crawl across me at night (yeah...I can hear the snickering) I just let it go and jump up and turn on the lights when it gets off of me...I don't mess with stuff in the dark. Sometimes...it's a brown recluse. Jeepers, I could do without them, BUT we have never had an incident here and now that I've said this...you know what's going to happen.
We don't have bug problems at all, just a couple of different types of spiders that wander around our house and unfortunately the brown recluse is one of the types. So, I guess we do have a bug problem.
You know...now that I think about it...I think I'm going to have the house sprayed a couple times/year by a professional. I just hate thinking about the strong chemicals in the house and I have personally sprayed the house with store-bought insecticides, but obviously they aren't stopping the spiders.... tulsa
If I ever feel something crawl across me at night (yeah...I can hear the snickering) I just let it go and jump up and turn on the lights when it gets off of me...I don't mess with stuff in the dark. Sometimes...it's a brown recluse. Jeepers, I could do without them, BUT we have never had an incident here and now that I've said this...you know what's going to happen.
We don't have bug problems at all, just a couple of different types of spiders that wander around our house and unfortunately the brown recluse is one of the types. So, I guess we do have a bug problem.
You know...now that I think about it...I think I'm going to have the house sprayed a couple times/year by a professional. I just hate thinking about the strong chemicals in the house and I have personally sprayed the house with store-bought insecticides, but obviously they aren't stopping the spiders.... tulsa
tulsa that sucks. Sometimes you have Brown recluses crawling on you? If it were me I would move the hell out of that house. You know it only takes one time to look like this guy. Check this out, they might have something that will help your problem with these evil things...http://www.brown-recluse-spiders.com/
A local school here had a massive infestation of them but I didn't give it much thought to it.
A local school here had a massive infestation of them but I didn't give it much thought to it.
viking611 said:
http://www.rochedalss.eq.edu.au/spiderattack.htm
http://www.parkerpestcontrol.com/bites.htm this is the link i got it from
Kornholio said:
I hate spiders more than you could imagine but brown recluse are really, really rare up here. There have been a couple bites in the Peoria area but nothing to worry about...those are during summer months too. Probably hasn't been a bite in the last couple years around here! I have to get pissed off to kill any kind of spider...just don't let me see you is all i ask...i don't care if there are 60 under my bed, as long as I don't see one...hate those fucking things. I'll pick up a snake no problem but just don't let me see a spider!
Kornholio said:
It's not the house....that map is no lie and we are right in the middle of it! They are literally everywhere. You know...the good news is you don't hear of many people around here getting the type of nasty bites to make headlines so something is up with that....I wonder if some or many people are not 'allergic' or something as they say these spider bites are hardly noticable until the nasty stuff starts in.... Many people don't even know they've been bitten until the discoloration starts. So, that makes me wonder if many of the people in this region haven't had some bites but do not get the reaction... I hope that is the case.
The house isn't the prob, though...I just need to get something like those traps your link pointed out...but I'm skeptical of them going to the trap... I'm more for general spider spraying in the house by Ortho or some such company.... tulsa
Tulsa, are there tarantulas in Texas? I don't think there are any in Vegas, but if I ever saw one, I'd die before it had a chance to bite me. I don't know why I hate spiders so much, but they are just creepy. I know for the most part that they can't hurt you, but just seeing them scares the hell out of me.
Illini said:
I'm no big fan of spiders, either. We do have tarantulas around here. I was putting my cover on the grill this summer and one fell out of it and I about jumped three feet up in the air...in my mind. I managed 4" in actuallity. I'm not as bothered by them being around as much as I am the freaking brown recluse AKA fiddlebacks..... tulsa
viking611 said:
I think they are becoming less rare as they expand up north. I don't know if you recall the school (maybe in limestone or washingtion) that had an infestation of them. They had to close the school for a month. At least they are reclusive. I just can't help but wonder if I have any somewhere in my house.
Tulsa said:
Allergic? Its poison. Of course it's not the bite that does this. The poison kills dead skin and the wound is the process of the docs cutting the dead skin away to get the poison out. There is no way you could get bit by a recluse and not get a reaction. Not possible.
As far as the traps if I had recluses crawling on me in my bed I would try anything and everything made to get rid of them. Chemicals only go so far. I tell you what, at my last house, I had a big problem with wolf spiders in the basement...turn on the lights at night and they were all over the place, every night. Under shirts, in shoes, just running around. They are not poisonus, bet they are big furry mean looking spiders. Got this thing that said it kills bugs of all kinds bind sending an electric field or something thru the walls that they cannot stand. A couple months later.....problem GONE. I never saw one in the basement after that. I might still have the product if you are interested I will find out the name.
Hey KORNHOLIO,
I know three people in B-N that have been bitten (including our eye doctor). They aren't supposed to live in this climate, however there are 13 known species of recluses (one key feature of all the species is that they only have 6 eyes). A prof at SIU was doing a study of their population density in IL, if I remember right. They are EXTREMELY fast, and the vast majority of bites are painless. If they bite you on a finger, you can lose the finger since the poison causes tissue necrosis that never heals. The Clinton jail had to be fumigated for them, (had something like 38 prisoners bitten). A relative of the ex-girlfriend's had a house infested with 'em (one her husband's friend's had to have emergency surgery to save his leg after a bite. It starts out with red streaks of the poison spreading and deteriorates quickly). Exterminator said they're damn near impossible to get rid of since ou actually have to hit them with the poison. And they are cannibals, so their populations can explode. Word of advice: if you're working in your attic, WEAR GLOVES.
BTW, Kornholio and any posters that live in the Northeast, the HOBO SPIDER was recently identified as being venemous to humans by the CDC (in 1995 I believe). Their bite is very similiar to the recluse, but these spider don't have the telltale violin shape on the thorax. On a different note, in the past before indoor plumbing, one of the most common sites of black widow bites was the penis (flies come to eat the shit in the outhouse, spider comes to eat the flies, cowboy comes to empty the bowels, and you have a recipe for penile disaster.
:eatya
I know three people in B-N that have been bitten (including our eye doctor). They aren't supposed to live in this climate, however there are 13 known species of recluses (one key feature of all the species is that they only have 6 eyes). A prof at SIU was doing a study of their population density in IL, if I remember right. They are EXTREMELY fast, and the vast majority of bites are painless. If they bite you on a finger, you can lose the finger since the poison causes tissue necrosis that never heals. The Clinton jail had to be fumigated for them, (had something like 38 prisoners bitten). A relative of the ex-girlfriend's had a house infested with 'em (one her husband's friend's had to have emergency surgery to save his leg after a bite. It starts out with red streaks of the poison spreading and deteriorates quickly). Exterminator said they're damn near impossible to get rid of since ou actually have to hit them with the poison. And they are cannibals, so their populations can explode. Word of advice: if you're working in your attic, WEAR GLOVES.
BTW, Kornholio and any posters that live in the Northeast, the HOBO SPIDER was recently identified as being venemous to humans by the CDC (in 1995 I believe). Their bite is very similiar to the recluse, but these spider don't have the telltale violin shape on the thorax. On a different note, in the past before indoor plumbing, one of the most common sites of black widow bites was the penis (flies come to eat the shit in the outhouse, spider comes to eat the flies, cowboy comes to empty the bowels, and you have a recipe for penile disaster.
:eatya
False D. You have so much info man. I guess it is a little more real of a threat then what Viking thought if you know three people yourself. Dad knows one who got bit on prarie vista golf course too.
Lance Rocke got bit? I will have to ask him about that. 38 bites in the Clinton jail and that school that had to be fumigated... I am starting to think these buttholes are way more common around here than people think, though I don't think I've ever seen one?....but then again I didn't know what they looked like til yesterday. You?
The good news is that they are reclusive. I read that you can live in a house infested with the recluse and never even know it....but still eventually one might end up in bed with you.
uke1:
You were talking about the hobo also...The hobo spider isnt nearly as venomous as the recluse though is it?
Lance Rocke got bit? I will have to ask him about that. 38 bites in the Clinton jail and that school that had to be fumigated... I am starting to think these buttholes are way more common around here than people think, though I don't think I've ever seen one?....but then again I didn't know what they looked like til yesterday. You?
The good news is that they are reclusive. I read that you can live in a house infested with the recluse and never even know it....but still eventually one might end up in bed with you.
uke1:You were talking about the hobo also...The hobo spider isnt nearly as venomous as the recluse though is it?
