Comments on: The Truth About The Brown Recluse Spider https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/05/the-truth-about-the-brown-recluse-spider/ Tue, 12 Sep 2017 02:48:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Joyce Lynn Murray https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/05/the-truth-about-the-brown-recluse-spider/#comment-477232 Tue, 12 Sep 2017 02:48:01 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21100#comment-477232 Just spent 4 days cleaning ot the shed in my back yard. There were dozens of black widows out there, lots of small brown spiders, and one huge brown spider with an interesting design on its abdomen. Non of the spiders I encountered bit me, but my neighbors have warned me about the Brown Recluse. I’d love to read Vetter’s book on them so I won’t live in dread of finding any more when the time comes again to clean out the shed.

]]> By: Cheryl John's https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/05/the-truth-about-the-brown-recluse-spider/#comment-477231 Mon, 08 May 2017 19:02:05 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21100#comment-477231 I read the commentary on the brown recluse spider I’ve caught a few spiders in here that I assume or brown recluse spiders because people in the past and told me that that’s what they look like period is there anyway I can send in a picture of the one or the two that I caught to determine whether it is indeed one or not. I did look at the map where it says or they’re commonly located at and granted I’m not really in that area but close to it. Anyway I was wondering if there is any way I can possibly sending a picture and have someone determine whether it is a brown recluse spiders I’ve been seeing or if they’re just wolf spiders

]]> By: tamika thomas https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/05/the-truth-about-the-brown-recluse-spider/#comment-477230 Sat, 20 Jun 2015 05:14:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21100#comment-477230 I grew up in Northern California, my grandfather was bit by a recluse & it ate almost completely through his elbow.
I moved to Arkansas, I continually see these bites on people.

Oh. Its terrifying

]]> By: This week in science: abort, abort! - LiberalVoiceLiberalVoice — Your source for everything about liberals and progressives! — News and tweets about everything liberals and progressives https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/05/the-truth-about-the-brown-recluse-spider/#comment-477229 Sat, 09 May 2015 13:09:07 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21100#comment-477229 […] nice article about the quiet, misunderstood, brown recluse spider, courtesy of science blogger Greg […]

]]> By: Spiderday (the second) | Arthropod Ecology https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/05/the-truth-about-the-brown-recluse-spider/#comment-477228 Sat, 09 May 2015 12:13:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21100#comment-477228 […] Laden provides a terrific review of Rick Vetter’s book about brown recluse spiders. YOU HAVE NOTHING TO […]

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/05/the-truth-about-the-brown-recluse-spider/#comment-477227 Fri, 08 May 2015 17:33:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21100#comment-477227 Devi, like it says in the post!

]]> By: Devi https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/05/the-truth-about-the-brown-recluse-spider/#comment-477226 Fri, 08 May 2015 16:58:47 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21100#comment-477226 Hmm… my sister and a cousin live in NC, and both were bitten by spiders identified as brown recluses. Also, the Science Museum in Durham, NC has an exhibit on them. Yet that map says they don’t exist there? Something is wrong here.

]]> By: rebecca gossett https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/05/the-truth-about-the-brown-recluse-spider/#comment-477225 Fri, 08 May 2015 11:59:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21100#comment-477225 Yes, but I live right in the middle of brown recluse land. … I moved from new York which makes my fear of spiders ten times greater, as we don’t have much in th le way of venomous anything…. The only killer we have in new York is white, fluffy and cold! (Both my grand father, and great grandfather died of cardiac problems while shoveling snow ) a sad story indeed.
. nevertheless I am terrified of these eight legged creepy crawlers! I check in my blankets and bed every night because I hear they like to hide in clothes and blankets ….. If there is anything else I can do to repel spiders, please let me know.

]]> By: G https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/05/the-truth-about-the-brown-recluse-spider/#comment-477224 Thu, 07 May 2015 03:23:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21100#comment-477224 I wonder if some of those nasty skin injury cases might be “bitten by whatever” and “whatever” was carrying some kind of staph germs that caused a nasty bacterial infection?

Years ago I read something by an amateur spider expert saying that California (SF Bay Area) has “hobo spiders,” which produce bites that have “recluse-like symptoms,” but the actual cause of the symptoms is bacteria carried by the spider. I was thinking this might apply to other types of insect/arachnid bites.

]]> By: Dan Andrews https://gregladen.com/blog/2015/05/05/the-truth-about-the-brown-recluse-spider/#comment-477223 Wed, 06 May 2015 16:49:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=21100#comment-477223 Some workers for the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (MNRF) had a joke data sheet posted up on some cubicles that took into account peoples’ confidence they had ID’d an animal correctly. The one I saw dealt with the cougar, as there were numerous cougar sightings coming in, but evidence for actual cougars, outside of escapees, was sparse.

After the checkbox asking, Did you see a cougar?, the next question was Were you drinking? Other questions were, Have you ever seen Bigfoot? Do you see UFOs and aliens? Are you sure it wasn’t a dog? A deer? A bear? A raccoon?

Wish I had grabbed a copy for myself as there were some humorous references alluding to many of the reasons why people misidentify animals.

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