He is our hero.

/get rid of

gopher321: One of the reasons I love living in Canada - so few things in nature around here out to kill you.

Except for that whole "winter" thing...

whatever that is.

She narrowly avoided a sticky end.
Not sure she'll ever mend.
Nevermore will stereo surround,
She can't hear half the sound.

Brown Recluse ain't nothing to f*** with.

Only in Australia...

O, Texas.

Don't know what kind it was, but something left some fang marks in my toe. Which spread to taking off the outside of two toes.

/Got to keep the inside of the toes atleast.
//...well I got betta...

Stupid headline.

Anyway,

But Saupe of the university's Geology and Biodiversity Institute used computer modeling to predict how it's habitat might move north to states such as Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and even New York.


DERRR GLOBAL WARMING!?!?!

My high school shop teacher had a bad case of necrotic penis. Never fully recovered from it.

Brown recluse spiders are miniature demons in spider cloth.

My typical response to spiders:



OR

I have a bunch of eggs in my crawl space right now. I better get them out before they hatch.

/already found one this year.
//last year woke up with one on my face.

Hector Remarkable: He is our hero.

/get rid of

I promise not to kill you...

My uncle got a bite from one on his ankle. The giant hole it made was disgusting. I'm sure it hurt like hell too.

Cythraul: Brown Recluse?

(checks article)

Yep, Brown Recluse.

and in texas

this don't surprise me

Brown Recluse?

/Link farked.

Perez, 21, was stung at the Amarillo airport

Idiot writers.

reillan: gopher321: One of the reasons I love living in Canada - so few things in nature around here out to kill you.

Except for that whole "winter" thing...

whatever that is.

My Jr. High Vice-Principal went on a snowmobile trip in the Northwest Territories, got frostbite and lost part of her ass...she could spare it.

I'm just going to put this link here. Don't click unless you want to see something horrible.

KILL IT WITH FIRE! (new window)

Walker: gopher321: One of the reasons I love living in Canada - so few things in nature around here out to kill you.

Except for the mountain lions lunging out of the bushes at your throat and the grizzly bears charging you, but that's mainly in BC.

& crazy strippers in Montreal.

I've...heard.

gopher321: One of the reasons I love living in Canada - so few things in nature around here out to kill you.

Canada has the brown recluse, black widow, rattle snakes etc etc. Do you live in Nunavut?

MoronLessOff: I have a bunch of eggs in my crawl space right now. I better get them out before they hatch.

/already found one this year.
//last year woke up with one on my face.

Your last slashie is the most horrifying thing I've ever read.

I would've done three things in order:
1) Screamed
2) Full-on psychiatric meltdown
3) Burned house down

Then I would've covered the former lot with salt and walked away forever.

To me, a spider that violates Spider Law (on the floor, runs out from a hidey-hole and does the "spider stare-down") automatically becomes a harbinger of death and pain. And it dies accordingly.

knew a girl who's husband was bit on the nuts by a recluse. he said it felt like a little pin prick, no big deal. nuts swelled up to the size of a small cantalope. had to have the wound drained thru a tube. almost lost his nuts, they were going to cut them off. she said the wound stunk really bad.

they did have a kid a while later, so no permanent damage to his nutsack.

scary sh*t

made me check my sheets for a long time after she told me that story.

he was bit when he put his pants back on after they'd be lying on the floor. a brown recluse will run from you if it can, they are timid spiders.

but if you scare one or step on one, or, god forbid, trap one in your crotch, look out!!

discgolfguru: mainstreet62: My typical response to spiders:

Agreed. Overwhelming force is authorized.

Not too long ago, I was a contractor at a major textile processing plant in the south. I was there to inspect some of the machinery and generally streamline some of the production steps. Among the many products that this plant was responsible for were pillows.

I was inspecting one of the larger warehouses, when I noticed that there was an unsecured ladder going up into a loft/crawlspace at the edge of the building. I went up for a look around, and I noticed bales and bales of packing material that was meant to go into the pillows once the fabric was three-quarters stitched. One of the workers later told me that this was where they stored all of this stuff until they were ready for it.

Because I wanted to get a feel for how dense these bundles of material were in case they were too heavy to store in an attic, and because I like to poke things, I poked one of the bales of pillow stuffing. I withdrew my hand quickly, for immediately afterwards dozens of brown recluse spiders boiled out of the various nooks and crannies in the material, as though some bug had alighted and they were looking for a meal. As I watched in horror, the spiders milled around for about thirty seconds, and then vanished back into the bale, as though they had never been there.

I talked about this later with the warehouse foreman, who told me that they were aware that brown recluses liked to nest in the bales of pillow stuffing up in the warehouse attic. It was the job of one of the braver workers to sort of whack the bales with a stick when they brought them down to drive out the spiders before the stuff went into the pillows, and that "they were pretty sure they got all of them". Not wanting to spend any more time in this house of terror, I accepted his answer and went on my way.

I am contractually obligated to not mention which retail outlets these pillows get shipped to (you WOULD recognize them, and there's a lot of them), but I would suggest throwing away your pillow if you ever hear any slight scratching sounds coming from within them. I haven't been brave enough to look up how long brown recluse eggs can go without hatching.

Just in case you need more cMoronLessOff: I have a bunch of eggs in my crawl space right now. I better get them out before they hatch.

/already found one this year.
//last year woke up with one on my face.

Just in case you need more convincing to get that crawl space cleaned.

Start at Slide 17.

Link (new window)

Guest: Just in case you need more cMoronLessOff: I have a bunch of eggs in my crawl space right now. I better get them out before they hatch.

/already found one this year.
//last year woke up with one on my face.

Just in case you need more convincing to get that crawl space cleaned.

Start at Slide 17.

Link (new window)

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http://www.emedicinehealth.com/slideshow_black_widow_brown_recluse_sp i ders/article_em.htm

Let's see...zero deaths caused by recluse spiders vs about 100 deaths per year from bees. Yeah, the spider is the one to be afraid of

ScotterOtter: Let's see...zero deaths caused by recluse spiders vs about 100 deaths per year from bees. Yeah, the spider is the one to be afraid of

Bees give us delicious honey and polinate flowers and fruit trees and such. What have spiders done for us lately?

What have spiders done for us lately?

eat bugs, you pussy!

/oblig
//Spider Thread!!!!!exclamationmark

discgolfguru: mainstreet62: My typical response to spiders:

Agreed. Overwhelming force is authorized.

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Interesting weapon and yes it is a real gun.
/good zombie gun.

Diogenes: Just f-ng great, Cagey. Now I have spiders in my ears.

Just sleep on a ziplock bag full of q-tips like I do now. I happen to know that those are mostly arachnid-free.

sovietski: MoronLessOff: I have a bunch of eggs in my crawl space right now. I better get them out before they hatch.

/already found one this year.
//last year woke up with one on my face.

Your last slashie is the most horrifying thing I've ever read.

I would've done three things in order:
1) Screamed
2) Full-on psychiatric meltdown
3) Burned house down

Then I would've covered the former lot with salt and walked away forever.

To me, a spider that violates Spider Law (on the floor, runs out from a hidey-hole and does the "spider stare-down") automatically becomes a harbinger of death and pain. And it dies accordingly.

I, too, abide by the rules of Spider Law. I put my glasses on and felt the bugger step from my face to get to the lens. I slapped it away instinctively. Once it was on the ground and I identified it, he got his ass stomped. Then I had to wait until I stopped shaking before I could shave.

My spider fear has been greatly reduced over the years, but that one shook me up pretty bad.

Guest: link did not work this is it just pasted

I'm going to guess it's an advanced recluse bite. No thanks, I've seen plenty. I'll be sweeping them out this weekend.

Brown Recluses are pretty common here in Missouri as well. Had a friend in college whose house was infested with them. The place I'm currently in had them when we moved in. Unfortunately, it's a townhouse, so when they spray one place, instead of the entire row (shiatty landlords trying to save money), the spiders simply move next door for a spell.

CSB: one time in college, I'm sitting on the toilet enjoying a good book when something falls on my head (Bald since 20). As most people are apt to do, I simply swiped my head, and watched in horror as what was clearly a spider flew through the air, yet only landing a foot or so in front of me. Threw my book at it, and discovered after I picked it up that it was a brown recluse. Thank god I was already on the toilet.

/ deathly afraid of spiders
// but only if they surprise me
/// still eradicate with extreme predjudice.

Cagey B: I am contractually obligated to not mention which retail outlets these pillows get shipped to (you WOULD recognize them, and there's a lot of them), but I would suggest throwing away your pillow if you ever hear any ...

I hate you so much.