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Just killed number 8....

HeavyBarrelHeavyBarrel Member Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited October 2004 in General Discussion
I have just killed another brown recluse, we have lived here in these apartments for 5 months and have killed 8 brown recluses, just a matter of time till someone gets bit I guess. Their in both bathrooms, closets, the kitchen both bedrooms in tupperware, we are infested.....
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  • BullzeyeBullzeye Member Posts: 3,560
    edited November -1
    See, I was hoping you were talking about beers...
    "Our finest tribute to our fallen dead would be to convince their sons that we were not Rambo and neither are they. -Gus Hasford
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  • HeavyBarrelHeavyBarrel Member Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Yeap me too.
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  • MattyTibbsMattyTibbs Member Posts: 148 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I EAT BROWN RECLUSES FOR BREAKFEST!!!! [}:)]

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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    relocate

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  • hughbetchahughbetcha Member Posts: 7,801 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    FCD,

    Now you've got me worried. I've got spiders all over and I dont kill them because I read they eat termites. What does a brown recluse look like anyhow?

    HGW
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  • easygo6easygo6 Member Posts: 1,465 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
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    type in brown recluse on a search engine. I could not get the pictures to paste .

    Their abdomen is virtuaslly hairless (tunnel web and wolf spiders are hairy) , are a drab brown/biege color though the abdomen could contrast sharpley (usually darkr than the thorax), eyes are in dark contrast to the forehead and will be in three groups of two eyes (six total).

    About 3/8" long and 3/16' wide as an adult.

    "They're in front of us, they're behind us, they're to our left and to our right...they can't get away now."


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  • bigdaddyjuniorbigdaddyjunior Member Posts: 11,233
    edited November -1
    My sister was bitten a couple of years ago. Looks like gangrene where the bite was. Took massive anti-biotic doses to stop it and still leaves a nasty wound. They are close to impossible to irradicate from a dwelling once they are in there and breeding. Like most arachnids, they don't touch their bodies or mouths with their feet which is how the poison is transmitted. Even fumigation isn't 100% effective. If it is an apartment, I'd be moving today.

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  • easygo6easygo6 Member Posts: 1,465 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2061.html

    Ohio State University web site. Has pictures, distribution, habits, first aid, how to exterminate (sounds difficult and takes up to six months [:0])

    Selectfire may be giving good advice.

    "They're in front of us, they're behind us, they're to our left and to our right...they can't get away now."

    Chesty Puller, Chosin Reservoir, Korea

    SEMPER FI
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  • easygo6easygo6 Member Posts: 1,465 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'd advise the local health authorities also.

    There is no anti-venom or treatment that has proven effective. Surgical removal of the tissue is the most common treatment.

    Apparently, large areas of tissue removal or amputation is required if immediate treatment is not obtained.



    "They're in front of us, they're behind us, they're to our left and to our right...they can't get away now."

    Chesty Puller, Chosin Reservoir, Korea

    SEMPER FI
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  • CS8161CS8161 Member Posts: 13,596 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I have the same problem with Hobo spiders, which have a similar bite to the recluse. I have placed those sticky glue mouse traps all around the house, along the baseboards, under the sinks, under the beds and used to catch dozens of them, lately there are fewer and fewer being caught. Spray the outside perimeter of your home and get a few dozen of those glue traps, the spiders walk onto the glue trap and then die a long, slow death from starvation...good for the little meanies!
    Don't kill any other species of spiders as the other ones prey on the recluse, especially the wolf spiders...they will keep the population of recluse spiders under control.
    Chris8161
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  • rovrmanrovrman Member Posts: 1,000 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Spent 5 days in the hospital from recluse bite. They will surely ruin your day.

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  • stevedz313stevedz313 Member Posts: 714 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Flying Clay Disk
    These are dangerous vermin. I know a guy who was bitten recently. They had to surgically remove a section of his skin, on his lower abdomen (by Mr. Happy) about 6" in diameter!!![:0][:0][:0]

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  • bugiemanbugieman Member Posts: 69 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    daymmm.. My skin is crawling and everytime something in my office moves i Jump. Well I suppose even that is better than working...


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