Brown Recluse spiders - help please?
 

A couple of weeks ago I was bitten by one of these things and it's probably the most painful thing I've ever gone thru - it HURTS!!

But I seem to be killing at least one a day in my house - does anyone here know how to get rid of these things? I've never had a single one in my house and now am seeing them more often - so I don't know if I have a nest of them or they are just worse this time of the year or what - I just know they are some mean little bastards!

Maybe climate change or the next arachnophobia is coming :winkwink: Seriously though, they're nasty spiders, get the exterminators in :thumbsup

There was a man here on GFY several years back that was bitten by one and did not get treated. The venom took his whole calf and unfortunately he suffered a heart attack and passed away as a side effect. I hope you got that bite checked out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider#Bite

i do remember that

Call an exterminator, pay the $200 bucks so you and your family members don't have to worry about having their limbs rotting off if bit.

Post a pic of the bite mark.

Mine, thankfully - wasn't as bad as some I've seen and we got on it right away - and it's almost healed - and I am going to the Dr on Tuesday to make sure it's doing as it should in the healing thing... but seems to be healing better than I thought it was going to.

I am so allergic to every stupid chemical I come in contact with, I thought maybe someone would have some advice on how to battle them outside of a bunch of chemical products that would otherwise be used.

This is 10 days in, I caught it right away - we first thought it was a boil - ingrown hair or something - but it wasn't looking right - and wasn't hurting the same way, this was hurting in my whole leg.

I've just about gotten the wound part down to manageable now, but it got pretty ugly for a few days there.

http://therudebitch.com/spiderbite.jpg

- it is about 10 days or so in here - and I see my Doctor on Tuesday about it - long boring story there but that's the fastest I could get in.

Look at those cute little fang marks!

My friend from High School ended up going into the Marines halfway through his senior year. To make a long story short, someone in his squad at basic training got bit by a brown recluse and ended up losing his leg.

They are no joke.

No, I know - my husband was bitten by one 20 or so years ago - and it took a good while for his to heal, that much I remember.

This one - we did some hunting on google and found a few home remedies I have been doing until I can get to my Dr - eating Echincea and packing it with this grap clay shit has REALLY made improvements on healing - it's just about closed completely up and is just itching like mad right now.

I changed Drs and before the new one will even see me, they want my records from the old Dr and when I called them, they got really nasty about it and informed me that they can take up to 30 days if they so choose and basically if I wanted to push it, they would do just that. They are very nasty about patients leaving their care - SOOOOO - I had to go to the new Dr and have THEM reach out and get my records and they have made better progress than I have and they finally got them and I have an Appointment on Tuesday...

I guess people seeing 10 different Doctors at one time to get all their various drugs are who we can thank for that shit.

Fuck me where do you live?

that spider luvs u :1orglaugh looks like a heart around it!

That's pretty standard for new doctors unfortunately, but did you mention to them you were bitten by a spider? They usually take that pretty seriously. Personally I would go to an urgent care or ER to get it checked out. Even though you say it's getting better, it still looks terrible and there is no way I would wait another four days to get that checked out. Far too much damage can be done in four days.

No I didn't mention it to them - it's not AS painful today and I can at least walk straight and not like I am 100 years old. lol

It's doing a great deal better and when I go in I'm going to have them take a look at it - but it seems to be healing well for right now - once I stopped treating it like a boil and like a bite, that is. lol

The most painful part is the location - it's in the inner most part of my thigh so walking was kind of wonky at best.

Yes! This!

Shit that sucks! Get well soon,,

if you really do get bit by a brown recluse it is important to see a dr if you dont you will prolly die eventually.

as for getting rid of them....the arent called a recluse by accident so if you are seeing them theres prolly lots more you arent seeing...call an exterminator

move out of the ghetto

she lives in a house

then, move to the ghetto

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/1...ml?cps=gravity
6,000 Venomous Brown Recluse Spiders Infest Missouri Couple's Home

This is what I was kind of afraid of - I've never really SEEN many of them and certainly not where I live now. Been here for 12 years and have seen maybe 2-3 in all that time - and have seen 3-4 the last couple of weeks.

So I am thinking those foggers really won't do much good, right?

I am thinking it matters not what type of dwelling you live in - lol

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_recluse_spider

Interesting stuff, the only spider with 6 eyes not 8, but 2 pairs on either side & a pair in the center.

and up to 20mm or over, pretty big! Nasty stuff, get them out of there Tam!

Living in the Midwest there has not been a house that we have lived in that did not have recluse spiders in and I have a ton of experience in dealing with the little fuckers... an exterminator will be a waste of money as you will not be able to get rid of all of them I guarantee it. Here is what you need to do to manage them... You need to pick up an entire box of those glue traps that are usually used for like mice... you can fold them up and place them all over the place along the baseboards... we have 4 just behind our bed on either side of the posts that touch the floor. After that you need to get you some Delta Dust and a duster and go to town pushing the dust in every crack and crevice you can find. I know it sucks but if you have them you will not get rid of them you need to "manage" them.

Good luck and here are some links (add the .com to ebay) that can help you complete your mission:

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It looks like staph infection not a spider bite

And THIS is exactly why I came to GFY to see if anyone had actually had any experience with them - I had read an exterminator wasn't going to do much more than cost me money I didn't have - I won't say we are infested, I haven't seen enough to say that, but I sure don't want it to get to that point - and I'll be doing this for sure.

This is some very painful shit and I don't wish this on even my mortal enemies!! :Oh crap

It actually looks a lot worse there than it does now - just 2-3 days later - I had just pulled the bandage off and gotten out of the warm bath I was soaking it in - so it was very wide open, which was my plan to make sure it wasn't infected - it's all bt completely dried and closed now - that clay stuff has REALLY done what they said it would do and even the skin is coming back nicely as well - it's not there yet, bt it's not infected at least.

I grew up in Missouri and they were everywhere. They are in most peoples homes in the attic. As the name implies they are rather reclusive so most people never know they coexist with them.

If you store clothing such as bedding in the attic or even basement (anyplace that is not used that often) be VERY SURE to check it if you are going to use it. They are often found there and that is how a lot of people come into contact with them. :2 cents:

do you not have exterminators that guarantee their work out there? I find it hard to believe they don't have poisons equipped to handle things like this. If they can get rid of bed bugs in hotels spiders should be a breeze..

This may have been what stirred them up - I've been cleaning out my closets of things we no longer wear or use and pulling out winter clothes and so on - so this may have very well been what stirred them up.

I live in the midwest too - so the area I guess, seems to fall into line.

Glen, where I live, they say what you want to hear but often can't back it up and then doing anything past that when they can't do anything is beyond impossible... :disgust

http://chompsy.com/pictures/burn-hou...ill-spider.jpg

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls...l89jo1_400.png

They're rare in our neck of the woods - but I've seen one (and took pics of it) here in Niagara region a few years ago.

Definitely nasty little buggers. Like everyone says - call in the pro fumigators and get the house bombed/fogged...whatever they do. Better safe than sorry. I'm sure you wouldn't want to go through this again sometime.

Best of luck.

We have them at our lake house, down near the boathouse. Luckily, they haven't bitten anyone yet. I've had it sprayed several times, but they keep coming back.

Vinegar, Horse Chestnuts and Peppermint Oil :2 cents: :thumbsup

How to Get Rid of Spiders in the House
http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Rid-of-Spiders-in-the-House

My cats eat all the bugs in the house - spiders, flies, ants, wasps/etc... Not sure about the brown recluses, but so far I had to save spiders (curly black ones - tend to get into a house in the autumn, hairy as hell, no bites though) - take em outside or they will be played to death and eaten afterwards by 3 cats.... and their corpses squashed flat by me in the morning...

Maybe helps! Cats will eat anything thats smaller and moves in a weird way! (even light from a pen laser)

:1orglaugh yeah that is great on cats :) :thumbsup nice of you you save the spiders :)

Well, they seem so helpless and innocent when 12 silent paws are hunting them down...
live and let live - save a spider from flushing down into a toilet or getting stampeded by horde of cats! :D

One of my hunters ready to pounce:
http://puu.sh/c7tQJ/b27332e977.jpg

But, seriously, cats eat everything.. even spiders. So at least they will stampede down those brownies for sure... if they can kill wasps and sneeze about it, should be ok with biting spiders too...

Cats are natural hunters. The only insects mine won't approach are those annoying Japanese Stink Bugs, probably because of the *stink*.

Seriously, back OT, Tam, the venom is far, far worse than the bite looks. I would recommend as another member in this thread posted, going to an urgent care facility or ER. :2 cents:

Second that, you don't want your nerve endings go into necrosis along with the flesh there, it does look bad enough for ER!

get the foggers all done :2 cents:

Foggers and spraying doesn't work on them unless you hit them directly. You will need to put glue traps all over and catch as many as you can. Also get you a cat if you don't already have one. My house sits about 20ft from the woods and we get swarmed by all sorts when the weather turns colder. It hasn't been bad this year, yet. We bought some of the chenical that you hook to your hose and spray the entire house ouside and around now every few weeks. It seems to have helped.

Nasty bite, glad you are ok. I'd never live where there's these kinds of spiders. Spiders gives me the creeps. Good luck getting rid of them all.

We have a ton of cats outside that have just come up over time and we take care of them - they keep the outside pretty free of any creepy crawly things - and we iveright next to wooded areas too!

The inside cats we have - up to the most recent two- all think we should do the hunting and killing while they eat out of fine crystal or some shit... Persians and Himalayans aren't exactly known for their hunting skills - but the two Manx Cats I have gotten this past year are incredibly smart and they will hunt and kill anything they see... they let me know when ANYTHING is amiss. lol

I've been reading and the best solution that seems to be working for anyone I've seen is those glue traps - nothing else seems to have been very successful in anything I've read.

When it comes to recluse or black widows.Those bites are nasty.get the pros to do it
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"Foggers and spraying doesn't work on them unless you hit them directly."

Just got home and the porch lights were off, so I didn't notice the spiderweb in the doorway until I walked through it. Immediately thought of Tam and her brown recluses.

No joke Tam - go to a doc in the box, or the ER. As someone else mentioned, there is more to be considered than just rotting flesh - such as nerves in that region that are used for adduction of the legs.

Also, the "foggers" that just spray up and drift back down are hardly effective. Get the kind that come in smaller cans and you drop those in small cups of water to initiate the reaction. The fog they produce is much better at filling a space and penetrating the nooks and crannies.

Still up for the mandingo party tam?