There's spiders......

[Ray77]

Around my PC Desk I don't know where they come from, but i caught like 10 of the same race , look like a mother spider gave birth to some eggs

The worst thing in this, i'm afraid of spiders

[Ahaugen]

bug bomb, 1-800-TERMINX, fogger

[MixedMyth]

Sounds like they hatched out nearby. Hopefully not in your computer, though!

I knew a girl once who had spiders hatch out in the light fixture above her bed. She woke up covered in spiders.

The worst thing was, they were brown recluses!

[Berg]

I put spiders into my comic once, like so. Now, try thinking hard about this when you go to sleep and I promise it'll do wonders for your dreams.

[Grabmygoblin]

The worst thing was, they were brown recluses!

*wonders what the big deal is*
*wikis*
*mutter to myself "I like spiders, they kill misquit-OH HOLY GOD AND ALL THAT IS GOOD AND MERCIFUL HOW CAN ANYONE ARGUE WE ARE NOT A FORSAKEN PEOPLE WITH INJURIES LIKE THIS IN OUR WORLD?!



ps don't click that if you are at all queasy... or don't want to be.

[MixedMyth]

Well, they ARE the most poisonous spiders in North America. and they live in all the lower 48 states, if I recall correctly.

Yeah. Their bites are NASTY.

[Berg]

OH HOLY GOD AND ALL THAT IS GOOD AND MERCIFUL HOW CAN ANYONE ARGUE WE ARE NOT A FORSAKEN PEOPLE WITH INJURIES LIKE THIS IN OUR WORLD?!



ps don't click that if you are at all queasy... or don't want to be.

OH MY SCHMOD!

[Sput]

oh GOD.

there are so many myths surrounding the brown recluse, honestly.

http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/s ... cluse.html
http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/site/free/hlsa0805.htm

Here's what often happens: People experience pain or tenderness several hours after the bite as SMD starts to trigger tissue damage. This can last up to six months. Most bites are uneventful. A minority develop the dermonecrosis that has made the spider famous.

In these cases, a bluish sinking patch with ragged edges and a surrounding redness appears within 24 to 72 hours, says William V. Stoecker, MD. He described clinical aspects at an arachnidism symposium that Vetter organized as part of June's American Arachnological Society meeting. This is the "red, white and blue sign." Bruising may spread along lymphatics, or with gravity. Often there is a central blister.

But these symptoms overlap with many other dermatologic conditions.

"I don't think it's easy just from the wound itself to say it is brown recluse," especially in nonendemic areas where one would seldom encounter it, said Kevin C. Osterhoudt, MD, a toxicologist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

"Many physicians, when they see a necrotic wound, don't have a broad differential diagnosis for it. And they've been told that brown recluse is what causes wounds like that." At a recent conference of Pennsylvania emergency physicians, he asked how many had seen brown recluse in their ED "and most of them raised their hands."

9c9

anyway. aww, spider babies. you have company. d'aww. <3

[MixedMyth]

Hmmh. Guess I was wrong about the area, then. Apologies!

Unfortunately, they do live around here and where I lived back home. Let me put it this way- One of my friends had to drop out of school because she got it so bad from a brown recluse bite.

Even if most bites are unaventful, I don't know about you but I'd STILL freak out if I were bitten by one.

Cause there's the chance it won't be.

[Pimpette]

My cousin once woke up in the middle of the night covered in tiny baby glow-in-the-dark spiders.
Her dad came running when she screamed, turned on the light... and couldn't see the spiders, cause they were so tiny and apparently translucent.
It took her a good five minutes to convince him to turn off the light because she WAS covered in spiders.


I checked the whole basement constantly for spiders for like a week after that.
I have no problem with spiders: they eat fruit flies, which I hate with the passion of a thousand fiery suns. They also eat ants, which we occasionally have a problem with.
But bugs are forbidden to climb on me without permission.

[Ian Moulding]

Around my PC Desk I don't know where they come from, but i caught like 10 of the same race , look like a mother spider gave birth to some eggs

The worst thing in this, i'm afraid of spiders

Spiders are lucky. But whatever you do, don't kill them. If you kill them their ghosts haunt you at might and whisper Scottish folk tales in your ears as you try to sleep.

True fact. I read it on the internet.

[Rkolter]

I have a simple agreement with spiders:

If it is reasonable to do so, I will escort any spider I find in my home outside of it. I reserve the right to kill the spiders though.

I will NOT kill any spider I find outside my home, nor intentionally disturb it's web.

It's worked thus far.

[MixedMyth]

that's more or less what I do, yeah. Used to have a designated 'spider glass' to catch them with.

[Pimpette]

I have a simple agreement with spiders:

If it is reasonable to do so, I will escort any spider I find in my home outside of it. I reserve the right to kill the spiders though.

I will NOT kill any spider I find outside my home, nor intentionally disturb it's web.

Same.
I move them to the part of the basement where the ants usually try to sneak in.
Then the spiders just sneak back into my room.
Maybe they like me.

[Ataraxia]

That's what I do as well. I like spiders... although I have been known to scream like a girl if I'm startled by one crawling on me.

[Kirb]

Brown Recluse generally don't live west of the Rockies.
That doesn't make me any less frightened of spiders.

*Bite picture*

*rocks back and forth*

ohgodohgodohgodohgodohgod

[Cope]

I'm not gonna be able to eat or sleep for a week.

[Mvmarcz]

A spider gets killed hows that make it rain


Lego may be the only one to get that....I hope he does

[TRI]

Hm. Well, all I can say is that whatever it was that happened to my dad doesn't match any of the things mentioned on this page as conditions which "could be mistaken for a brown recluse spider bite."* However "a dry blue-gray or blue-white irregular sinking patch with ragged edges, surrounded by erythema," with "gravity-dependent 'tails,'" "without significant signs of sepsis," describes it perfectly. So if it wasn't a brown recluse bite it was something awfully darn similar and, considering the doctors said he was "an inch or two away" from dying, I feel, every bit as serious.

Not that this would be the first encounter this family has had with medical misdiagnoses. I'll spare you the story of my "scarlet fever."

*Yes I am aware that list is "not an exhaustive compendium," however that does not change the truth of the sentence.

[TheSuburbanLetdown]

Well, they ARE the most poisonous spiders in North America. and they live in all the lower 48 states, if I recall correctly.

Yeah. Their bites are NASTY.

Hobo Spiders are just as awful. They're almost the same thing really — necrotoxin, nocturnal, fast, and they have a chevron marking instead of the violin marking that Brown Recluses have. Many people mistake the Hobo Spider for the Brown Recluse, but it doesn't really matter since they have the same god damn poison that destroys your flesh. Luckily most bites are dry bites, and the nasty gangrene-type wound isn't terribly common.