Do Not Attempt To Kill A Recluse Spider With A Household Broom!

CindyLouWho

CindyLouWho

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Have you ever had a Recluse Spider in your house? I noticed him on the side of a cupboard near the garage door inside the house. Panicking I took the broom and hit him and then could not find him anywhere. I was looking everywhere and about 5 minutes later found him in the sink, washed him down the drain with him fighting to get out, but I won & turned the garbage disposal on He must of catapulted over there with the force of hitting him. Just relieved I got him but these things are just nasty, nasty. nasty!
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CindyLouWho said:
Have you ever had a Recluse Spider in your house? I noticed him on the side of a cupboard near the garage door inside the house. Panicking I took the broom and hit him and then could not find him anywhere. I was looking everywhere and about 5 minutes later found him in the sink, washed him down the drain with him fighting to get out, but I won & turned the garbage disposal on He must of catapulted over there with the force of hitting him. Just relieved I got him but these things are just nasty, nasty. nasty!
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Are you sure that's a male spider? The large abdominal sac suggests a female with a clutch of eggs.

HDH
 
Just a picture I found online Hal, not the one in my house. I was too busy trying to get rid of him to be bothered taking his/her picture.
 
They are nasty little buggers for sure.

My barber was bitten by one in June on the back of his shoulder and they had to cut out a large area and do a skin graft to fill the hole.....being under Medicare age, self employed and with no health insurance it cost him a small fortune by the time it was all over.

Graphic picture of spider bite......click 'Show' to view.
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A friend was bitten on the right hand when she was cleaning out a closet with some old books.

They saved her fingers, but it was purely cosmetic. She can only use that thumb now.

I sprinkle diatomaceous earth in all the places they like to live -- bookshelves, backs of closets, storage units, etc.
 
Oh, my gosh, when I read the subject line of this thread I thought it was going to be about what was reported today on the news.

A man who only wanted to get rid of unwanted pests has managed to burn down his home with a blowtorch.Officials in Tucson, Arizona, say that they responded to reports ofsmoke and flames coming from a mobile home in the Arizona city where a man had been using a blowtorch to remove spiderwebs from underneath his mobile home.The fire department said that they had arrived to discover that an elderly woman had been removed from the blaze by her son and some neighbours. She had sustained minor injuries while being carried out, but she was not reportedly injured severely by the fires.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...e-down-blowtorch-tuscon-arizona-a8005991.html
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My niece was bitten when she was a toddler and see puffed up really bad and needed to be treated for anaphylaxis...
Scary creatures
 
I have a LOT of spiders in my yard due to the area I'm in and the spruce and pine trees I have. I'm constantly killing them in the house too, my cat helps a bit. The brown recluse, although rare in Colorado is present. I've seen black widows, but haven't recognized a recluse yet.....hopefully I'll never have to deal with one and never get bitten by one. Ike, those photos are VERY disturbing! :eewwk:
 
ooooh it's not often I'm delighted I live in the Uk rather than anywhere else ( we have no killer spiders or bugs) .... but today is definitely one of them... ...dear Lord those photos should have come with a warning...
 

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