PSA: If you think you might have a spider bite, do NOT, I repeat DO NOT Google for images!

[PeaceNikki]

x( and :puke:

[Raven]

1. I happen to have one. On my stomach. Got it in the garden this

weekend. What should I not want to see?????:scared:

[PeaceNikki]

2. I think there must be spiders the size of a Chrysler.

I don't EVER want to encounter a Brown Recluse. OMFG. We need to wage war on those fuckers TODAY! :puke:

I am going to CALL CONGRESS RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!11!!!

[BeachBaby]

16. I was given the death blow by a brown recluse in 1986.

The inside of my left forearm. It started out looking like a large skeeter bite, then started getting rings around it, eventually looking like a dart board, with the bite being the bull's eye.

My fever went up to 106 before I was rushed to the hospital. The docs said if I waited any longer, I'd be dead.

As for the bite, my arm looked like it was about to split open from the pressure - and the bite and markings took over 4 months to completely disappear.

[PeaceNikki]

17. Oh no!! Holy shit!

That's awful! We MUST DESTROY THEM NOW!

We must get Congress to impose an act of war. Today. Now. x(

I'm glad it turned out OK for you. Where were you at the time (so I know to stay far far away)?

[BeachBaby]

21. I was working at a summer camp

on an island off of New Jersey.

Brown recluses aren't known for being in this area en masse - but there have been reported cases of sightings here and there through the years.

When I arrived at the hospital, there were 3 doctors who came in to take a look. The one doctor said "Oh man. I know what this is. Hold on." He left, and then came back with a book - and showed it to the doctors. They all argued, saying that it CAN'T be a brown recluse, because of our geographic location; but every single symptom I had was a perfect match, and no other spider bite matches the symptoms.

The camp directors found the spider in my cabin that day while I was in the hospital. He was inside my pillow case. They trapped him, put him in a container, and then took it to some county insect control center or something. I never did see the thing, thank goodness.

[FloridaJudy]

3. If it hasn't turned into

An enormous oozing sore by now, it won't. Most spider bites are annoying but harmless: brown recluse bites are horrific. I've seen a few in real life, so I take the experts' opinion there are none here in Florida with the skepticism it deserves.

eta: rattlesnake bites are worse, but not much else is.

[siligut]

4. Spiders are territorial.

Just so you know, the way to avoid the bad ones, i.e., brown recluse, is to keep the good ones around. We have spiders all over the house and are careful of their webs.

One good one kept trying to build her web across the front door! I finally had to have a talk with her. Up here we have to worry about hobo spiders, close cousin of the brown recluse.

[PeaceNikki]

7. I think WI is outside the territory of the brown recluse.

For that reason alone, we rock. I may never visit ANY pink area ever again. Ever. Until the war on brown recluses is won and we've eradicated the species entirely.

[Oeditpus Rex]

5. Instead, hang out in Teh Longue

where you can view photos of dead skin bits grated from human feet. :D

[PeaceNikki]

9. I'd rather have wallpaper of dead skin bits grated from human feet

than see those spider bites again. x(

[Oeditpus Rex]

10. You realize, of course,

that some defective mass of protoplasm is gonna dig up one of those pics and post it in this thread.



Fortunately, I have most of the usual suspects on ignore. :D

[PeaceNikki]

11. That'd be gross.

Hey, look:



:rofl:

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. 'When Jesus was crucified...'

"DUDE! SPOILER!" x(



:D

[XemaSab]

18. .

:rofl:

[PeaceNikki]

20. It's real, too... check it:

http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0006201/

[Maraya1969]

6. Search for it on Youtube. You won't believe it.

[PeaceNikki]

8. No! No! No!!!!

I can't take anymore. :cry:

[AwakeAtLast]

12. And don't watch the home video of the camel spider found in your husband's barrcks

eating a mouse, BTW. Double :puke:



Oh, and don't google images for camel spider, either. x(

[XemaSab]

19. .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5muVjcQ6zHM

[TZ]

13. heh

I do medical research. I pretty much could find stuff to give you nightmares for a loooong time.....:evilgrin:

[PeaceNikki]

14. How 'bout let's not?