more haters for the Brown Recluse

[AllenG]

Dean, SUPPOSEDLY there are NO BROWN RECLUSES on the westcoast...there are many forms of the recluse but the BROWN RECLUSE is down towards florida and over to texas...many sites i have read said that NO brown recluses live in california, but there are other forms of recluse that are around but I guess not as bad as the brown recluse

also recluses were supposedly the first spider discovered to be able to give one necrosis from a bite, but now many other species have also been found to "infect" a bite with necrosis...

likely hood it was not a BROWN recluse but another recluse if even a recluse...i only say this becuase you said west coast...and this site (i will find the link) says that all the specimens they have ever received from California, not a single one has ever been a Brown recluse....

look under misidentification (this is not the original site i mentioned but supports the fact) http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7468.html#MISIDENTIFICATION

Here is one sites map of their areas more so supporting the NO california info
http://hobospider.org/necromap.jpg
and the main site. http://hobospider.org/recluse.html

 

[Dean W]

chekc un der my ID, i dont live in the US, so the wet coast isn;t california for me. And brown recluse do inhabit the area i was visiting. Perhaps the doctor was right, but im stubborn, so i believe no one, until i have proof.... besides myself of course. Im just glad it was as bad as i hear it can be.

 

[Mendi]

I was bitten by a brown recluse a bit over 20 years ago, and had the dead spider, so the ID was positive. It was my fault as I had left my pants laying on the floor and didn't know any better, I also didn't know it's a good idea to shake out cloths and shoes before wearing them. I don't bear the spider any malice, it never would have bitten me had I not put on my jeans and was squashing it. I was living in WV at the time along the Ohio river, and with all the barge traffic it had planty of ways to get into the state. By now, there's likely a thriving population of them in that area. I guess it took the bite area close to 3 months to heal, which had it happened a few years later I could have been treated with a nitro patch. But, I was treated with things that were thought to help back then, mainly antibiotics and steroids. Needless to say, time was the healing instrument.

Now, I live in TN and am sure they are in the area, but am much more careful. I don't think I would feel to badly though if I were to dispose of one should I find it in the house though...

 

[AllenG]

Originally posted by Dean W
chekc un der my ID, i dont live in the US, so the wet coast isn;t california for me. And brown recluse do inhabit the area i was visiting. Perhaps the doctor was right, but im stubborn, so i believe no one, until i have proof.... besides myself of course. Im just glad it was as bad as i hear it can be.

well california or not, they don't exist in canada...but the lovely hobo spider does more or less same bite though...read those links i posted above...very good reads lots of info

but for mendi tennesse fully populated with them...so i believe
you...

http://hobospider.org