Double Bass Brown Recluse spiders

[fishman10]

I took these photographs of a brown recluse spider up close. We find these everywhere in our house in North Texas. Not a spider you want to get bit by. Its not really fatal, few if anyone dies from a bite, but the bite does rot the flesh away and will leave lots of bad memories.

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[Ed Fuqua]

MODERATORS - should this be moved to BAND MANAGEMENT?

 

[skychief]

That spider has a DOUBLE BASS on its back!

 

[JGoldberg]

It has kind of a puppy-dog face.

 

[SVT4001]

It has kind of a puppy-dog face.

 

[Staccato]

They are violin shaped but not known for any musican talent.

 

[capnsandwich]

I've seen this in my parent's house in Ohio. Most of the time I would see them when I would go in the garage and lift the tarp off the riding lawn mower. Nasty looking things!

 

[gerry grable]

Neat!

Does "Arachnology" have the same changes as "Ornithology"?

 

[forester]

least we're done with ticks

 

[TroyK]

We have these. No good. Hopefully you had some glass between you and this guy.

 

[Marc Piane]

greats shots!

 

[FrankenIbanez70]

Got bit by one of those in a crawl space. Good times.

 

[Marc Piane]

Got bit by one of those in a crawl space. Good times.

Yikes. A firefighter friend of mine got bit. He didn't get sick but he got necropathy at the bite and had to get part of the flesh of his arm carved out.

 

[Freddels]

Spiders are nasty. We used to deal with these in the military.

Here's a vid for you:

 

[one4dabass]

Very impressive. Beautiful pictures!

 

[Johnny Crab]

I somehow got bit on the forearm one night at an outdoor gig about 10:00(just before our last set). Felt nothing, didn't know I had been bit(outdoor deck surrounded by bushes). By 11:45 my forearm had a slight lump on it. The next morning it was a small volcano-looking mound with the center being yuk stuff. Doc(Marine medic) gave me an antibiotic to kill/prevent the fleshrot and a steriod to get rid of the swelling. I was LUCKY to get aggressive treatment within 12 hours of the bite. No scars, no rot. A co-worker at my day job has nasty scars on his hand from the same type of bite that left untreated for a day longer.

 

[ShredderMaximus]

Do they get very big? I HATE spiders and I've been seeing quite a few that now that I see those pic's looks alot like brown recluses, but I though they were wolf spiders or something.

I miss the black widows back in California...
(In N. Texas atm)

 

[boynamedsuse]

Those are bad news. I have heard that they only come out in the dark. If you turn on a light it takes them some time to "evacuate" the room though.

 

[hrodbert696]

One more reason I'm happy to live in the frozen north. Of course, with global warming, I'm sure we'll have them crawling up our backsides before long.

 

[Phendyr_Loon]

Dayum nature, you scary!