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Ok ...Ill bite. Probably not what you're lookin' for, but whatever...i don't want to comb through 12 pages for the complete play-by-play, but i think someone needs to make it known that skin necrosis isn't the same as a brown recluse bite and that a picture of a superficially similar wound doesn't mean that much.
These wounds in this pic have been healing very well now for about 2 days. They were much more inflamed, larger and deeper ...constantly filling and scabbing over but like all the wounds im showing here, they remained soft under the scabs allowing external water to just wash away the scab revealing a deeper hole each time til about mid-week, then they started filling back in slowly..2 steps forward, one step back sorta deal.
The spider that had nothing to do with the wounds is a SoCal collected
native... very likely Loxosceles deserta.
Swear to gosh she walked over to the wounds, turned to me, rolled 3 pair of eyes and gave me that.. "pfffft. ..thats nothin'" look.
This wound was way bigger and deeper. Its kinda swelling up around itself and raising while slowly closing up. Again, every time scar tissue forms over the wound, it fails to "take" and turns to mush. Happy its finally shrinking...cause its one of only a few that had me slightly worried. I could scoop out the mush and the hole was nasty deep.. also this one and a couple others kept turning black even a couple days after all the other wounds started to progress in a positive way. Anyway...not a wound to write home about, but imho a classic start to a potentially narly necrotic problem.
The spider that had nothing to do with the wound is a Brown Recluse proper ..L.reclusa.
This wound never got deep, but it swelled way up and redness formed in lines ..i suppose the problem was spreading through vascular paths. If it weren't for its obvious scrape wound shape, I bet i could have passed it off as a spider bite wound.
The spider shown in this one ...which, btw, had nothing to do with the wound, nor did she want anything to do with this silly photo shoot for that matter... anyway, shes a fav individual of mine ..a big old L. laeta.
These little wounds appeared a few days after the others. They were simple hives caused by dealing with a few rats of mine that NEED baths. When the hives receded, small scars appeared and holes formed just like all the other wounds. They finally look like normal scars now.
The little Loxo that had nothing to do with these wounds is actually mature ...tiny compared to the other species ive kept. I collect these in Vegas and I am not sure what specie they are nor will I guess.
In Vegas, home associations are poisoning thousands of homes every year to kill this spider. Vegas ground is hard as rock and it floods now and then ...perfect distribution of poison covering the desert valley floor.
Big contracts for the exterminators ...ya gotta figure their sales rep has a few images of nasty necrotic wounds ..eh? :?