Texas Spider! Ouch
 

Just moved to austin area and found this fucker on my bathroom wall this morning. Someone please tell me its not a brown recluse.....

http://www.teeniesmuthut.com/spider.jpg

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No not a reculse. Looks more like a Wolf spider.

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2061.html

http://www.everythingabout.net/artic...s/wolf_spider/

Welcome to the Austin area. Austin is a great town, you'll love it.

I don't think that is a recluse. You could always let it bite you just to be sure ;)

That's not a wolf spider, they live in the dirt. What you have IS a brown recluse. Sorry.:(

Go get yourself a exterminator ASAP!!!

Don't fuck with me, are you fucking serious?

Medical Significance
The bite of the brown recluse is usually painless until 3 to 8 hours later when it may become red, swollen, and tender. Later the area around the bite site may develop into an ulcerous sore from 1/2 to 10 inches in diameter. Healing often requires a month or longer, and the victim may be left with a deep scar.

Well, here's a picture of a brown recluse. You decide.:winkwink:

http://www.critterridders.com/p1120525.jpg

well, make sure to have some first aid kit just in case...

Recluses have noticeable hair, and they don't have the crab-like front legs. ;-) I've seen a few when I lived on the farm. They loved the firewood piles. :( Someone posted one just like your pic in the last few months if you search back. I don't remember now, but I looked that thing up. lol

ALL spiders have a 'venom' tho. And if you are one of the people allergic to it, it can be about as nasty if they bite you as a really poisonous one. (ANY spider) The hubby gets the nastiest boil like things from just one of those dust spiders that get up in the crack of your rooms between the ceiling and walls.

So we use alot of D-Con 4 gone bombs. 4 times a year. lol And we double or triple the cans they say to use. ;-) Runs ANY bug out and quick or they are dead. :winkwink:

*edit* seriously *edit* venomous spiders are scary as shit

be careful hq

black widows and recluses look scary

i like daddy longlegs but they are like more poisonous than black widows i think
they just cant bite humans or something

pretty damn big and scary looking to me. i'll be moving along....

You are a fucking dick.

:321GFY :winkwink:

http://department.monm.edu/biology/r...clusesize1.gif
http://department.monm.edu/biology/recluse-project/

I hate spiders

Remind me never to move to Texas.. I grew up in New Mexico, lots of black widows, centipedes and scorpions........I've had enough of that deadly spider shit to last me a lifetime

welcome to austin! depending on what hospital you live closest to, i think you'll survive if you get bit.

when I lived in Austin we'd go out to our ranch and there was an old BBQ pit that daddy longlegs nested in, thousands of them.
And we'd grab handfuls and put them on ourselves till we were covered in clouds of spiders and run after the girls.
Good times

Brown recluse spiders are usually only in dark, cool places. It's pretty rare to see one crawling across your wall. Ditto for the Black Widows.

http://www.uark.edu/~dksander/photos.../blk_widow.jpg

Head out to the garage and dig around in a dark corner and I'll bet you find one of the two back there...especially if you live in the midwest or the south.

Damn.... I fucking hate spiders....:BangBang:

hmmm... I've been called worse I guess.:321GFY :winkwink:

Now go kill that spider already... I'm wearing sandals and this thread is freaking me out.:BangBang:

http://www.tenforward.com.au/spiders...y/lifesize.jpg

Bird Eating Spider!

If y'all would quit killing the spiders, you wouldn't need to use the D-Con to get rid of all the bugs... the spiders would do it for you. :)

Black widows are deadly but they're very gentle and not hostile (in my personal experience). They'd rather check you out than bite you, I've held them on my hands many times. (Yeah, I was young and stupid.)

Daddy longlegs are the coolest things, love 'em :)

High Quality - that IS brown recluse.
Get some :helpme

Shoot! Roxxys pic made me remember... look on that pic at the butt end. See the gray shape and if you look closely it's violin shaped. With the neck towards the spiders head. ;-)


And they grow alot bigger than a quarter in Ohio so I think a Texas breed would be even larger. Up here they are also thicker bodied from the cooler climate probably. They do resemble the common wolf spider here but the violin gives them away. The mark is red or reddish here.

Crab like spidies ARE serious jumpers tho!! Whoo Hooo! lmao

I've been bit by a Brown Recluse. It's not fun. Ended up in the emergancy room hooked up to an IV and had to see poison specialist. I have a permanent scar on my arm from the bite. It only takes about 8 hours for the bite to start turning black. Black means dead skin cells. If you don't get to it quick enough it can lead to amputation. Had to take antibiotics that made me sick as shit. Needless to say I didn't have medical insurance so the fucking little bastard spider cost me a grand. :BangBang: :BangBang: :BangBang:

Spiders suck.

i hate spiders

Identifying and Misidentifying the Brown Recluse Spider

http://dermatology.cdlib.org/DOJvol5...l/recluse.html

Recluse bite, 48 hours later

http://home.texoma.net/~linesden/bite48.jpg

Recluse bite, 2 years later. Yes, the venom can apparently remain active that long in sensitive people.

http://home.texoma.net/~linesden/bite2yr.jpg

Holy shit !!


:BangBang:

I was just looking at all the spider pics in this thread, and a bug jumped on me!! Just a harmless little one (not a spider), but it gave me a bit of a fright, given what was on the screen. :Graucho

ouch! where were you living when this happened?

Man I hate spiders, why did I look at all the pics in here?

:ak47:

Yep, these little bastards are what I grew up around in New Mexico....thanks for the memories

Sorry Carrie... I saw the pics his ex has of the spider bites that he didn't cause to happen (he's allergic to the toxins spiders that they all have in their spit) so we are mainly KILLING 'piders. I don't want to deal with him having a swollen purple pus spewing wound. ;-)

His idea of fun was for a contractor that he did work for, while the guy was eating his fav grape filled donuts at 6am (b*tching that he wanted to take the day off instead of supering the crew), was to pull a bandage back and squeeze that nasty purple pus which sprayed all over the guys desk... He had 3 weeks paid leave. rotfl

And I guess they hurt as well. :) It doesn't matter what spider nips him, they all produce the same results. (But I watched him have a 4' black snake drop out of the floor joists on him when we first moved in here and he just snapped its neck and tossed it in the trash can. lol)

Spiders? He backs off and gets spray or something to whack it with!!

Yep, I have killed a few of those.... I hear the anit-venom is worse than the bite itself.

Big list of spiders with photos
http://homepage.powerup.com.au/~glen/spider.htm

In Costa, I was drunk, but I remember seeing a daddy long legs type of spider that was as tall as a pop can run across the pool deck. :)

Here in Atlanta. I was out playing Disc Golf at a local park. Happend about 3 years ago.

A friend of mine was living in Africa for a while.. Her father worked for the military or something.. Anyways, her house had no windows. She woke up one night and felt a tickle by her face, looked over, and there was a bird-spider not three inches from her nose. This particular fellow was a good 9-10 centimeters across. She screamed, jumped out of bed and her father came to kill it. Guess it fell out the window, and it was so heavy, the fall killed it. Damn, that's a bigass spider.

Daddy longlegs aren't actually in the arachnid family. They are another type of insect.

The creatures most correctly called daddy-longlegs are in their own separate Order which is Opiliones. Common names for this Order are 1) daddy-longlegs, 2) harvestmen and 3) opilionids. They are characterized by having one basic body segment which shows segmentation on the posterior portion, at most 2 eyes and all 8 legs attach to the pill-like body segment. They are usually found under logs and rocks, prefer moist habitat although they can be found in the desert, often have long flexible legs (in the temperate Northern hemisphere but there are also short-legged daddy-longlegs) and they do not produce silk so therefore they are never found in webs unless they are being eaten by spiders. Because they are found under logs and other stuff which people most often are not turning over, most folks don't run into daddy-longlegs very often.

Have tons of black widows around here, I love the little fuckers but have to squish them.

I like spiders though and try to get them on their way without harm.

Why did i open this thread ?? :helpme

I hate spiders..once I was bitten by one and my hand swelled up like a ballon...don't know what kind of spider but it was fucking nasty

A brown recluse got me some years ago, made a big hole in my leg. Was back in my drinking days, told the doctor I thought I had a hang over. Thought I was going 2 die. Man it made a big nasty hole in my leg, big as a quarter.:BangBang:

Welcome to Austin. What part of town do you live in?

I'm out in NW Hills and I haven't seen any of what you posted, but not too long ago I killed a HUGE ass tarantula :helpme

:1orglaugh

The best way to tell if it's a brown recluse is to look at it's back.

If it has a black fiddle shaped mark then you've got yourself a brown recluse
http://www.tandjenterprises.com/imag...luse%20big.jpg


http://entomology.unl.edu/charts/recchart.jpg

I have black widows here in Vegas.

Last October, I had 2 big ol' mama's living on each side of my door, and I finally decided I would kill those bitches.

Wouldn't you know it, the day I come home to do so and they disappeared....a cold front moved in the next day.

Dam thats the same place I got bit. Took like 3 months 2 heal.

Just shows how weak humans really are.

A small spider can leave you damaged, scarred and dead within hours.

Life is worthless on this planet.

OMG, when we moved out into the country we started getting these creepy looking spiders in our house, sometimes 2 and three a day, that were about as big as a half dollar. Drove me CRAZY and we had small children in the house that I was constantly worried about.

But nothing can compare to this spider we saw on the front steps of this house we went to look at once when we were looking for a place to rent. I don't know what the HELL this thing was, but it was about 3-4 inches in circumference, it's abdomen was about 1 inch around and bright reddish orange and it's body was grey and it was really hairy. I was up on the porch when my husband noticed it and I actually jumped completely off the porch (past about 5 steps) to avoid the thing and I ran like hell to the car. OMG I was sooooo scared. I've never seen anything even CLOSE to that and I can't imagine where it came from. Anyone ever see a spider like this? It looked almost like a grey and orange tarantula except it had a fatter and more seperated abdomen.

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