Along came a spider.....ALWAYS shake your boots and britches first...

[two70]

It is VERY effective... especially on spiders.

 

[tv1217]

I went through a morbid curiosity thing a while back where I was reading up on all kinds of deadly animals, and I found out that all spiders of the Sicariidae family (which includes the genus that includes the brown recluse) have similar venoms, with similar effect. Sicarius hahni is said to be the worst. Massive tissue loss possibly leading to amputation, damage to every organ in your body, hemorrhaging, aneurysms, heart attacks, strokes and more. These things are all just possible with brown recluse but they're LIKELY with S. hahni.

 

[Tactically Fat]

Indy - that's not likely to be a recluse bite.

If so - you'd definitely know it by now.

And Rhino - I also doubt it was a recluse in your living room. The odds just aren't in favor of it considering where you live. HOWEVER - they are indeed moving ever northward... Should've gotten pics to be sure.

To this date, the only BR spiders I've seen in Indiana (and I look for them) has been in Evansville. Our remote job-sites are often PRIME habitat for all kinds of creepy-crawleys and I always check for BRs as a matter of course.

 

[indiucky]

Indy - that's not likely to be a recluse bite.

If so - you'd definitely know it by now.

Maybe...I just finished out the antibiotics...The hole is still there and looks like it's going nowhere soon....I have heard the venom can affect people differently so who knows (where my wallet went?)

It sounds way cooler being a brown recluse or fiddleback bite so I think I am going to go with that....Unless...Do you think...It could have been a Mountain Lion bite???? Maybe?????

 

[rhino]

Indy - that's not likely to be a recluse bite.

If so - you'd definitely know it by now.

And Rhino - I also doubt it was a recluse in your living room. The odds just aren't in favor of it considering where you live. HOWEVER - they are indeed moving ever northward... Should've gotten pics to be sure.

To this date, the only BR spiders I've seen in Indiana (and I look for them) has been in Evansville. Our remote job-sites are often PRIME habitat for all kinds of creepy-crawleys and I always check for BRs as a matter of course.

You never know . . . people said we didn't have big cats in this area and yet, there they are on the trailcams.

 

[tv1217]

Yeah those range maps are BS. I used to install cable, I've seen them in crawlspaces all over NE IL and NW IN.

 

[GunSlinger]

Well Indy, it's not a question of if the tissue will slough but more one of how much.

 

[indiucky]

Well Indy, it's not a question of if the tissue will slough but more one of how much.

It's just a black hole now...It looks like a lady put out one of those skinny Misty cigarettes on my calf...

And that IS NOT what happened....Not this time anyway....

 

[Leadeye]

Here in the GSF I've run across the black widow, never have seen a recluse though. Picked this one out next to the barn.

 

[indiucky]

Dang leadeye...That gives me the heebiejeebies....I am assuming you had a 45 long colt with shot loads in the other hand pointing it at that evil little lady in case it came back to life???

 

[Alpo]

Interesting thread.

Indy: Your family only goes back to 1790? Most of us go back to Noah.

Spencer: I grew up mostly out west where you were never more than 8 feet from a spider. I guess the wide open prairies spread them suckers out a bit.

Didn't realize we don't have black widows in Indiana.

 

[rhino]

It's just a black hole now...It looks like a lady put out one of those skinny Misty cigarettes on my calf...

And that IS NOT what happened....Not this time anyway....

Talk to Downrange75 about his spider bite experience. Very scary!

Here in the GSF I've run across the black widow, never have seen a recluse though. Picked this one out next to the barn.

Dang leadeye...That gives me the heebiejeebies....I am assuming you had a 45 long colt with shot loads in the other hand pointing it at that evil little lady in case it came back to life???

Okay, I officially have the heebiejeebies too.

I like spiders when I am looking at them in photos or on video. When they're in the house, not so much.

=

 

[indiucky]

Indy: Your family only goes back to 1790? Most of us go back to Noah.

In Kentucky brother.....

It ain't written in the Book but I have heard it said that I was Adam's favorite g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-grandson......

 

[spencer rifle]

I have seen a real dead recluse, but only in Evansville. There are a lot of brown mid-size spider that are not recluses, and they are hard to identify without close examination. The genus Loxosceles has a lot of look-alikes.

Back in the summer of 1981 I shared a small park entrance booth with a family of black widows for a few months in western North Dakota. They lived under the "floorboards" (more like a pallet). Probably 20 or so. I didn't bother them, they didn't bother me.

 

[Alpo]

In Kentucky brother.....

It ain't written in the Book but I have heard it said that I was Adam's favorite g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-grandson......

Hate to disappoint you, but I think he seems to have preferred Robin.

 

[indiucky]

Hate to disappoint you, but I think he seems to have preferred Robin.

That's the rumor lol....

 

[rhino]

 

[tv1217]

Needs a panel with Batman facepalming.

 

[dung]

I have seen a couple of black widows in Rockport so they are definitely in Indiana. I know two people that ended up with Brown recluse bites that got nasty. From what I have read even though most spider venom isn't directly dangerous to us, the bite sites are likely to get infected and cause the resulting issues.

I was bitten by a wolf spider last week when laying down weed barrier. It felt like I got pinched. I washed it off, took an antihistamine and went about my day.

This isn't the one that got me, but it sure is big.

 

[rhino]

Any kind of puncture wound is prone to infection, so it makes sense that punctures from spider fangs would be as well.