My nephew has a daddy long legs in one corner of his bathroom. I don't know how long they live, but this one has been around for two or three years and he (more likely she) is still growing. I didn't know they got that big...
If its a brown recluse that would suck. I've seen what can happen with their bites, not pretty. not a big fan of spiders either. I agree with Midas swatter time!
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hobo and brown recluse (violin spiders) give you a septic bite. Whats bad about it is that it doesn't heal on its own, and keeps getting worse. I got one down in Oklahoma, and still have a big welt from where they had to cut it out.
don't play with them spiders kids! they'll get ya!
We've battled brown recluses (or as my wife says tan extroverts) for a few years now and we seem to be winning.
Glue traps seem to be the number one deterrent. We caught/killed over 150 in a 3-4 month period. When we started to see other spider species we knew we were making headway.
These guys are vicious and will eat one another. One BR on a glue trap is a baited field. I would often find 3-4 more the next morning in a semicircle trying to get to one stuck in the middle of the trap.
Let me know if you find more and I'll be happy to share other tricks we used to control them.
I was bitten by a Hobo Spider in my sleep a few years back. THAT SUCKED!!!
Right on the outter top side of my left wrist. It bubbled up like a very, very bad and exaggerated blister. It was about 3/4" long and about 1/4" wide and the bubble protruded about 1/4" out, off of the regular surface. I went to the doctor and they told me to take Benadryl and come back if it got worse. That bubble stayed for about 4 weeks, then it finally burst and crusted over. The crusting over lasted another 2 months before finally peeling off and left a bit of a noticeable scar there.
I rummaged through my bedroom for literally 5 hours, moving everything and looking everywhere for that DAMMN thing! and I couldn't find it!!!!
I'm just glad Hobo Spiders don't nest (which is why they call them HOBO Spiders, because they don't nest and they are just drifters from one meal to the next)...MOVE ALONG YA BASTID!!
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Looks like the little sucker that bite me(about 15 years ago)in the left side about six inches below the armpit. I put a shirt on one morning and it was inside. Made a sore the size of a dime that took about three months to heal. Sorry, but I think you should introduce it to the fly swatter.
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I would do with it what I do with other cool spiders(call my crazy if you want. I like spiders and snakes). Stick it in a jar of rubbing alcohol. It acts as a preservative and you can keep it around and show it off without the possibility of it biting someone. I would love to get a brown recluse to add to my 4 black widows and other assorted spiders! I have one that looks very similar to a BR, but isn't. Lacks the fiddle shape coloring on it's head.
Oh and you're not crazy for naming him! I named all my dead spiders!
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We are plagued with Brown Recluse spiders in So. Arkansas along with other types of spiders.
I think I'm winning the war against them...I hope !!!
I will make a confession that I am 100 plus percent scard of the Brown Recluse because of pictures I've seen of there bites.
If you ever have a problem with them go around the inside of your house with a flash light and look in the corners of your celings, thats where I have found them.
If you have ruffsawn sideing as I have in my carport take a match and run it up and down the grooves of this sideing and you'll see what you thought was dirt, thosands of baby spiders will reveal them selves, a cigarett works good.
I don't use a pest control service but I do buy at Wal Mart the stuff in the big jug with it's on hose & pistol grip squirt squirter for the home owner.
We never in the 26 years of liveing where we live have had a bug problem other than spiders !!! A.H
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