Comments on: The Truth About The Brown Recluse Spider

By: Map

Map — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 20:40:47 +0000

This site is doing a disservice…the Brown Recluse Spider is NOW FOUND in California..this info given is not safe and should be taken down or revised….!!!!!!!!

By: Henry Killingsworth

Henry Killingsworth — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 22:53:59 +0000

It stood out to me when you mentioned that brown recluses are dangerous spiders. Is killing a brown recluse spider the best way to deal with it? It could be a good idea to talk with an exterminator if you live in an area that has a lot of dangerous spiders.

By: Lionel A

Lionel A — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 16:23:27 +0000

In reply to Bernard J..

Thanks for this post Greg and follow up Bernard,.

If you care to locate me on Facebook (my profile image is of myself standing behinf the tail fin of a Tiger Moth biplane) I have pictures up of some of the tarantula that I look after for a grandson whilst he is at Uni.

I have recently worked out an escape proof way of securing a shower room, requiring some carpentry to make blanking pieces to stop them vanishing behind a sink and cupboard unit) so that any Poecilotheria regalis that escape whilst moving to a fresh home do not cause my wife to vacate home. These things are quite venomous, can run fast and jump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54rudQN4MLk

By: Lionel A

Lionel A — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:30:38 +0000

Discovered an example of a Western conifer seed bug, Leptoglossus occidentalis, clinging to a curtain indoors last year (Southern England). I took a photo’ of it not having seen one previously.

It appears that this has become established in the UK since about 2007.

By: Lionel A

Lionel A — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:24:40 +0000

I have suddenly found myself the custodian of 29 tarantula of 24 different species, some quite large, size of a hand.

A grandson into zoology has collected these and has now decided to go on a world tour.

Sadly his large Mexican Red Knee (Brachypelma hamorii) died during a failed molt.

Larger individuals are of:

Brachypelma vagans

Aphonopelma seemanni this is the largest

Nhandu chromatus

Brachypelma albopilosum

Psalmopoeus pulcher

Lasiodora parahybana

By: Jeff Harvey

Jeff Harvey — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 15:36:18 +0000

By the way, for Bernard, the giant recluse, Loxosceles laeta, has been introduced from South America into Australia. It is also apparently established in California…

By: Jeff Harvey

Jeff Harvey — Wed, 21 Nov 2018 15:33:38 +0000

I have seen two species of Loxosceles, one of which was the brown recluse (L. reclusa) when I was in Arkansas and Oklahoma (the other was the Mediterranean recluse in Portugal). The six eyes, characteristic is sciarids, and the violin on the carapace were diagnostic. I was actually quite delighted to see my first brown recluses when I drove from the east coast of the US to the west coast in 2001. They were inside motels. I also had the pleasure of seeing two species of widow spiders, Latrodectus variolus in Oklahoma and L. hesperus in California. But heck, I am an entomologist.

By: D sattley

D sattley — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 06:34:14 +0000

I get rid of my brown recluse spiders with sticky boards. I have a board with over 30 it right now.

By: Bernard J.

Bernard J. — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 07:06:38 +0000

As a coda to the subject of huntsmen spiders, they can be incredibly beautiful animals. The species that bit me was a wonderful amber-red-brown colour, and I’ve seen some that are various shades of almost luminescent leaf green.

I suspect that I’ve spied more than a couple of unidentified species but at the time I was not set up to record information and I was loathe to collect (= kill) for a maybe, so they lived out the spans of their natural lives in the wild…

🙂

By: Bernard J.

Bernard J. — Mon, 09 Oct 2017 07:01:15 +0000

Oh, lots. Depending on where one is though it can be very common to bump into the nasty ones, but as long as one is careful one can usually survive to adulthood.

For the curious:

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/wildlife/2012/08/australian-spiders-the-10-most-dangerous/