Beware of this spider!

[mybills]

This is a brown recluse spider, and they are dangerous. They like dark places like your shed or basement, and will attack if you shock them with light. There are discusting pictures floating around the web, of a bite on someone's thumb over a 10 day period. They aren't fake. I just found out that two people I know had to be treated for these nasty bites. Their poison can actually eat away the skin down to the bone. :down:

http://www.billszone.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/10009/brown%20recluse.jpg

[ryven]

There nasty little B@st@rds there very big here in florida.

[ryven]

If anyone wants to see what there capable of doing here some pic there a bunch of there just keep clicking next.http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_brown_recluse_bite2.htm

[pjw]

There are discusting pictures floating around the web, of a bite on someone's thumb over a 10 day period. They aren't fake.
they are fake. i work in pest management.
http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/bl_brown_recluse_bite.htm

[pjw]

The wound itself appears to be real, at least, and, while more extreme than most, does resemble necrotic ulcers known to be symptomatic of brown recluse spider bites (http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.emedicinehealth.com/articles/10729%2D8.asp%23Multimediamedia5). They are also symptomatic of gangrene (http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://dermatlas.med.jhmi.edu/derm/result.cfm%3FOutputSet=1%26keywords=gangrene%26BO=AND) and necrotizing fasciitis (http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.emedicine.com/derm/topic743.htm%23section%7Epictures), however, both of which can result from a brown recluse bite but both of which have other causes as well and might be mistaken for such a bite. Experts say misdiagnoses very common. The majority of brown recluse bites are "uneventful," in fact, and never progress to such a serious stage.
http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/bl_brown_recluse_bite6.htm

[LtBillsFan66]

There are discusting pictures floating around the web, of a bite on someone's thumb over a 10 day period. They aren't fake.
they are fake. i work in pest management.
http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/bl_brown_recluse_bite.htm
So are they or aren't they fake?

[Pride]

Check out this spider found in Iraq!

http://www.abc.net.au/sydney/stories/Giant_Spid_m867586.jpg

[lordofgun]

Big deal.

[RetroRaiders81]

Check out this spider found in Iraq!

http://www.abc.net.au/sydney/stories/Giant_Spid_m867586.jpg
Ahh yes, the Camel spider.

[pjw]

So are they or aren't they fake?fake, the first part was supposed to be a quote.

[SabreEleven]

Check out this spider found in Iraq!

http://www.abc.net.au/sydney/stories/Giant_Spid_m867586.jpg

That was proven to be a fake picture.

[mybills]

The majority of brown recluse bites are "uneventful," in fact, and never progress to such a serious stage.

Neither of the people I know progressed that far, but they were serious enough to be hospitalized. :ill:

[mybills]

Check out this spider found in Iraq!

http://www.abc.net.au/sydney/stories/Giant_Spid_m867586.jpg
that looks like two..one's biting the other's ass.

[pjw]

all the info you ever needed on brown recluse spiders
http://spiders.ucr.edu/

[pjw]

Neither of the people I know progressed that far, but they were serious enough to be hospitalized. :ill:im not saying that they are not nasty MFers but those particular pictures were part of a hoax, the one i seen said it was in N california, the brown recluse is not native to this part of the country.

[LtBillsFan66]

fake, the first part was supposed to be a quote.
:phew:

[mybills]

pjw, are talking about the pics where the spider is inside the wound and you can see stitches? Those are so stupid. Who would let the thing keep eating their flesh down to the bone and take pictures? The bites are bad enough. :cynic:

[mybills]

btw, I didn't see them. My sister sent me this pic and is the one who's friends were bitten.

[chernobylwraiths]

There are discusting pictures floating around the web, of a bite on someone's thumb over a 10 day period. They aren't fake.
they are fake. i work in pest management.
http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/bl_brown_recluse_bite.htm

Make up your mind Sybil

[chernobylwraiths]

fake, the first part was supposed to be a quote.

Nevermind.

[Voltron]

That was proven to be a fake picture.
They are VERY real! My buddy has pictures of them. Him and some of the guys in his unit used to have scorpion spider fights :snicker:

The spider would win most of the time but the odds on the scorpions were better he said :lol:

[TheGhostofJimKelly]

I always wanted to go to a WNBA game or some kind of woman's sporting event and throw a spider on the floor and see all the players run off the court.

[Cntrygal]

Camel spiders definately catch your attention the first time they "jump" out of a tree at you.

[LtFinFan66]

Ahh yes, the Camel spider.Camel spiders are awesome!! Can run fast and can jump! Pretty nasty looking things!

[Dozerdog]

<CENTER></CENTER><CENTER></CENTER><CENTER>Brown Recluse</CENTER>



Claim: Photographs depict the effects of a brown recluse spider bite.

<NOINDEX>Status: Undetermined. </NOINDEX>

Example: [Collected on the Internet, 2003]

These pictures are of the damage done by a bite of the brown recluse spider over a period of <NOBR>10 days.</NOBR> These are not for the faint of heart to view as they are quite graphic.

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Origins: Whether these photographs actually depict the effects of a [url="http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7468.html"]<NOBR>brown recluse</NOBR> (http:///) spider bite is difficult to determine. The accompanying text provides no useful identifying information, such as where the putative victim lives or where he was bitten, whether he obtained a diagnosis of his wound from a doctor, whether he sought medical treatment, etc. Various accounts place these pictures as having originated in Missouri, Wisconsin, or California. <!-- (Knowing the locale could be important in verifying the authenticity of this account because, for example, brown recluse spiders are not native to California (http://California).)-->

Even if these photographs are genuine, they likely create an exaggerated sense of the danger posed by brown recluse spiders. As Phillip Anderson, a Missouri physician who specializes in brown recluse spider bites, explained in an article (http://spiders.ucr.edu/expert.html) for the medical journal Missouri Medicine, "Almost all brown recluse spider bites heal nicely in two to three months without medical treatment at all. Also the long-term medical outcome is excellent without treatment." Furthermore, says Anderson, "We are not aware of any verifiable deaths caused by the bite of the North American brown recluse spider." (He noted that several deaths from such wounds "had been reported in medical journals, but none of the reports is convincing.") He also reported that out of "about 1,000 credible recluse spider bites," he was only aware of "about a dozen cases of impressive, sustained hemolysis (http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?query=hemolysis)."

In fact, just about the greatest danger of a bite of this nature is not the direct effects of the venom, but rather the introduction of secondary bacterial infection due to the patient's continually scratching the site (spider bites can itch terribly!) or otherwise failing to keep the wound clean.

If these photographs truly depict the effects of a brown recluse spider bite, they represent a very rare occurrence. Quite possibly they are genuine photographs of some completely different medical ailment (unrelated to spider bites) with similar physical symptoms (such as <NOBR>pyoderma gangrenosum</NOBR> (http://web.archive.org/web/20031008211545/http://www.greenfingerslandscaping.com/wounds/html/Pyogan.htm) or <NOBR>necrotizing fasciitis</NOBR> (http://www.bact.wisc.edu/Microtextbook/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=186&page=1)), and someone who came across the pictures outside of their original context mistakenly assumed them to depict the effects of a brown recluse spider bite.

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

[mush69]

I hope Mrs. Mush doesn't see this! All this last weekend i was tell her stories about the brown recluse and how they love dark damp wooded places. Like a wood pile, she didn't touch the firewood at all, outta a 4 day camping trip I had to go get wood 2 times. Normally that would be 2 a day, Let's keep this under wraps people. I finally have an angle :snicker: