Anyone else have problems with these? I've found three in our apartment this year. Two of them I found this semester, within a week of each other. The other one was last semester.
my family had a problem with them one fall and the following spring. pure speculation here is that one leaves its babies in your house in the fall, and you find them grown up in the spring as they head outdoors
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BigPeeOn wrote:
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Anyone else have problems with these? I've found three in our apartment this year. Two of them I found this semester, within a week of each other. The other one was last semester.
My guess is that they come from the Hardees bags.
I am pretty sure I got bit by one a few years ago when I was home for a summer. I got this itching bite looking sore on my arm, which then grew to about 1x2 inches, then went away. I had no idea what it was until someone mentioned it was probably a brown recluse bite. Pretty sure it happened in my sleep...supposedly a bit is capable of practically rotting your flesh.
Actually, the severity of your reaction depends on whether or not you are sensitive to the venom they use. Its kind of like how people react to poison ivy or poison oak, some are allergic, and some aren't (like me ).
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Angel12b wrote:
they are normal... what you need to do is spray the outside perimeter and inside perimeter of your house/apartment
Cats work better, and are cheaper. Especially if they have sniper rifles...
But no, seriously we took in a stray and litter box trained it. Never saw them again.
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I had a pretty bad experince with a brown recluse that i doubt any of you can match. I think i was bit while i was asleep becuase i didn't know about it untill i was at church the next morning when and all of a sudden I got light headed and about passed out from it, i was standing up and pretty much just fell down and I didn't realize what was going on. After that i noteced my arm was really starting to hurt, thats when i noteced the bite on my bicept. It started small but from the time church service got over till i got to a docter a few hours later it had grown to a 5-6 inch diameter red area around a middle 1-2 inch dark brown area where i was bit and you can still see the scare today(about 3 years later)
they are normal... what you need to do is spray the outside perimeter and inside perimeter of your house/apartment
Cats work better, and are cheaper. Especially if they have sniper rifles...
But no, seriously we took in a stray and litter box trained it. Never saw them again.
doesn't always work though... we had 36 something cats and could still find brown recluses and black widows... Most people don't realize it but there are brown recluses in almost every building but you don't see them... ie. the recluse part of their name.
If you ever have the chance to catch a black widow and a brown recluse and put them in a jar together... it is entertaining
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they are normal... what you need to do is spray the outside perimeter and inside perimeter of your house/apartment
Cats work better, and are cheaper. Especially if they have sniper rifles...
But no, seriously we took in a stray and litter box trained it. Never saw them again.
doesn't always work though... we had 36 something cats and could still find brown recluses and black widows... Most people don't realize it but there are brown recluses in almost every building but you don't see them... ie. the recluse part of their name.
If you ever have the chance to catch a black widow and a brown recluse and put them in a jar together... it is entertaining
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Here's the deal: chemistry is the devil. Anything beyond balancing an chemical equation is black magic.
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Angel12b wrote:
doesn't always work though... we had 36 something cats and could still find brown recluses and black widows... Most people don't realize it but there are brown recluses in almost every building but you don't see them... ie. the recluse part of their name.
If you ever have the chance to catch a black widow and a brown recluse and put them in a jar together... it is entertaining
I am surprised that you kept all the cats then. From what i read on the net a while back the only reason cats are good with brown recluses is because many (not all) are immune to their venom. I also remember reading that this is not the case with black widows.
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