OMAHA, NE--Forty Venomous Brown Recluse spiders invade man's apartment

A few years back, my neighbor was down in her basement and a brown recluse fell from the ceiling onto the back of her neck and then down into her nightgown.

She was bit and within a few hours her neck was all swollen and she couldn't breathe. She was hospitalized for about 3 months.

Once home, she remained on antibiotics for another six months.

She had one of the worst reactions I've seen to the poison of this spider.

Be careful when rummaging through boxes that have been in your basement.
I've come across some nasty spiders while doing this, now I wear gloves.

Last Edited by KoFFee_ on 07/25/2012 11:29 PM

There's a couple of gross pictures in this video, but he warns you when they're coming up:



[link to www.youtube.com]

Poor guy. I can't do spiders.

WOW! that is nuts!!!!

i know a thing or two about brown recluse and that is...wicked bad.

+5 pin sug and

Hi Anne,

I just watched another video about these creepy crawlers and it had to do with picking up your dirty clothes off the floor only to discover that there is a brown recluse hidden in there.

That has happened to me more than once. I just reminded my sons to be careful, too, as they leave their dirty clothes on the floor quite often.

I have a feeling I'll be down in my basement tomorrow--vacuum cleaning all the cobwebs I can find.

Last Edited by KoFFee_ on 07/25/2012 11:43 PM

Wow, who did he piss off? Poor dude.

some people have really awful allergic reactions to the brown recluse bite, others just get the localized tissue necrosis (not that that is any kind of walk in the park gathering daisies) that results in the lingering weepy wound and "cigar burn" scar. perhaps the difference is venom injection into the blood stream versus just a subdural injection just below the area of the bite? here in sunny south florida, the bastards are everywhere. i even saw one on a yacht once, living in the aft line locker. told the mate and cap i saw it, another mate started offering to show them the bite he had on his ass...lol sounds like the guy in the article had a nest hatch out somewhere in a wall or attic, and his apt is the ""path of least resistance". the landlord should get the place termite tented, as spiders are incredibly hard to kill off without seriously toxic to everything pesticides, but the vicane used for termite shots kills EVERYTHING alive in the structure, as well as any broods of eggs, assuming the tent job is properly done. another solution of course is to just bring in a few of our local anoles and geckos, who seem to find all spiders most delicious

I know, I'm reminded of the movie "Pacific Heights" with Melanie Griffith and Michael Keaton--the cockroach scene.

I would have MOVED to another apartment across town four months ago after I saw the first deadly BROWN RECLUSE spider.

I was bit by one on my forehead 20 years ago. Two weeks ago got cut by glass in the same spot (and a few other places) and the spot where I was bit was the only wound that refused to heal...it reacted totally diff. weird.

well the recluse is a recluse for a reason, they don't make regular cobwebs/webs...

[link to www.brownreclusespider.org]

here's the herbal remedy:

get plantain leaves (fresh, grows everywhere) and crush it up. make a poultice, place it directly on the wound.

also use echinacea tincture directly on the location.

their poison is REALLY foul, not only necrotic but also corrosive. the scars tend toward keloid, and the damage, as you pointed out, is permanent. black widow country down here too, though they are much rarer. im hoping the latest lizard invasive species (curly tailed lizards) have as good an appetite for spiders as the locals did, as most of the anoles and geckoes died off in last years cold snap, and their numbers dont seem to be building very quickly (the curly tails seem to find them delicious as well).

Not everyone has that much cash lying around lol, for most people it takes months and months of saving to be able to afford a move.

A garlic poultice is good too. Alli-C is an excellent product.

The little cardboard "sticky pads" for pests will catch most of them. If placed next to vents, closets, under furniture--if there are brown recluse around, some of them will end up stuck on the pads. If the pads are left out permanently they will keep the spider population quite low.

once it swelled, i lanced the "boil" produced and squoze out the nasty yellow brown puss, then packed it with cigarette ashes. healed in a couple of weeks, and the scar is surprisingly small, but deep. best to get necrotic poisons out as quick as possible. tobacco ash is remarkably antiseptic

Now who would have thought that! Wonder what it is in the ash that helps to prevent infection.

i've been bit a couple times and never had a bad reaction...not like you see online! i wonder if it has to do with general immunity and health.

hmmm...:P

Can I find those at a local hardware store?

OK

I went out to the wood pile to get some wood one winter and was pretty sure I saw one of these crawl out of a log right past my hand...

Was I lucky?

L O L that sounds like a total nightmare.

Yea i'd say so, I bet they are more docile when it is cold because everything small gets slow in the cold.

Holy Cow! With 40 plus in his apartment it's a wonder he didn't get bit!

I got bit by one in my basement in N. Calif. 2 days before I was leaving on trip to Arizona for a graduation at ERAU. For two days it was just a little red bump on my hand that I thought was just a harmless spider bite. While I was driving a horrible, gross thing starting growing at the bite site & a red line was creeping up my arm. The growth was extremely painful and had a swirling, colored liquid in it.

I was driving through desert with not many towns & no hospitals but finally made it to Prescott. By that time the red line was half way up my upper arm getting closer to my heart. The emergency dr. called in a "brown recluse specialist" & they did an emergency surgery. I was in hospital for a week there. The drs. there told me to call my county health dept. in Calif. to report the bite which I did when I finally got home. They told me that my county may claim they don't have them because of harsher winters but told me to tell them that they hide in houses, barns, etc. & do survive & breed even in areas with a harsh winter!

I relayed the message but the health dept here still denies that we have them. So I guess if I had gone to a local hospital I would have been misdiagnosed & would have probably died!

What a stroke of luck that I had that graduation to go to where the experts are (Arizona & South West) after being bit by one!

This is exactly what I do. Lots of spiders in the sticky traps, not so many running around my house.

That poor man! I would be traumatized if 40 spiders of any kind invaded my home. *shivers*

Yes. Home Depot for sure, thats where I got them.

the nicotine for one, and lots of trace metals that are semitoxic. ive been using tobacco ash on wounds for decades as it also has a styptic effect (promotes clotting). but in many cases it does tend to promote scarring, so you ladies probably wont want to use it on visible areas. dont know where i got the idea from, but it works like a champ

Koffee!

This would freak me out!!

These spiders keep coming up and growing in numbers!



Remember my old thread?

Thread: Lucifer: Angel of Music - The Violin, The US One Dollar Bill and Black Death/Anthrax?!

The story I posted was the first I've ever heard of these types of spiders and what they're capable of:

'I was going blind': Agony of student, 21, who nearly lost her ear after being bitten by poisonous spider (and the deadly animal is spreading across America)
[link to www.dailymail.co.uk]


...and this one that was left as a mystery:


McDonalds in Indianapolis quarantined due to "Talcum Powder"
He took the package with him to the urgent care on Decatur Boulevard, complaining of a swollen head. The man's eyes were watering and he showed signs of nasal leakage.
[link to www.fox59.com]


This is getting out of hand

Thanks, I'll check out Lowe's tomorrow--they should have them, too.