Brown Recluse

Cheetohs · Post by **Cheetohs** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 7:52 pm

Wow. Im sure some of you have heard of the Brown Recluse spider... Anyways, being bored i was just seraching google and found this:
http://www.greenapple.com/~jorp/amzanim/hacspider.htm

Someone, please tell me this is fake!

.... I live on Brown Recluse territory (kind of) here in minnesota. But the chances of getting bit by one are slim to none... just thought it's pretty gross what their bite can do to you!

Mj · Post by Mj » Wed Jun 16, 2004 8:00 pm

Eugh

Glad i dont live near any

Jack Ruby · Post by **Jack Ruby** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 9:14 pm

Man I HATE spiders.

What I dont get is why didnt that dude go get some treatment to the bite rather than take pics every day until his thumb fell off ?

I had a battle with a spider last summer, I made this page to tell the story:

http://www.project313.co.uk/portfolio/s ... Spider.htm

At0miC · Post by **At0miC** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 9:23 pm

You can see the bone of the thumb, this is really sick.
The posion or what ever it is, is solving the thumb, eeerggg

And owyeah, it's no joke, I found this on google: http://images.google.nl/images?q=Brown% ... a=N&tab=wi

At0miC

Jack Ruby · Post by **Jack Ruby** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 9:33 pm

Here another spider thing that was doing the rounds on email about a month ago:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/bugs/camelspider.asp

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Wed Jun 16, 2004 10:01 pm

Eh... Jack... that IS a picture from thew filming of Aliens... right?

Cheetohs · Post by **Cheetohs** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 12:40 am

Nah, Ive heard of this before.. Camel Spiders Aren't actually venomous, they CAN't run 25 mph and a bunch of other stuff making them seem so dangerous.

"Camel spider" is a common name for solpugids, large non-spider arachnids found in desert regions. Solpugids have no venom, not even an anaesthetic, and are strictly predatory on smaller creatures.

echo_rancid · Post by **echo_rancid** » Thu Jun 17, 2004 3:00 am

OMG I agree with Jack, I hate spiders...more than anything else in the entire world. The little spiders that are black and white that hop are cool, but only because they hope. Any other spider, no good. That Camel Spider is the size of a cat...If I came across one of those I would most definetly soil my trousers.

ziptie2k2 · Post by **ziptie2k2** » Fri Jun 18, 2004 10:40 am

I read an article on these "brown recluse" spiders, and it said that the doctors cannot diagnose it as a brown recluse bite unless they have the spider that bit the person in question. This probably is why this poor fellow went this far into the gangrenous nature. It also said that most people dont even have a reaction to the bite. This is about the worst case scenario, if that makes anyone feel any better.