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I live in a place with brown recluses and have been trying to find one for more than three years with no luck. It’s really living up to its name.
by bergenty 4y ago
I live in a place with brown recluses and have been trying to find one for more than three years with no luck. It’s really living up to its name.
- dreamcompiler 4y agoIt's fairly common for a family in recluse country to discover a nest of hundreds of them behind the headboard of their bed that has been there for years, and yet nobody ever got bitten.
- voidfunc 4y agoThis is fucking nightmare fuel. I'd burn the house down and I'm not even particularly bothered by spiders usually
- choeger 4y agoI'd raze the whole town.
- blakewatson 4y agoExcuse me while I try to unread this.
- dopeboy 4y agoThanks. I’ll just…stay awake tonight.
- mikelevins 4y agoI live in Arkansas, smack in the middle of recluse territory. I've seen dozens of them in my house over the past fifteen years. I take 'em outside and let 'em take their chances with the birds, if the cats don't get 'em first. There are undoubtedly thousands of them under the house. Hasn't been a problem.
- fedreg 4y agoI live in Kansas City, MO. They're everywhere around here. Have found them in my house several times and even been bitten by them. I guess I'm just lucky but I never had an overly bad reaction to their venom. (knock on wood)
- no-s 4y ago> Have found them in my house several times and even been bitten by them. I guess I'm just lucky but I never had an overly bad reaction to their venom. I think you may just be lucky, they may dry bite, or maybe there’s some folks with antibodies. I have a 2-month-old recluse bite wound on my leg, it’s currently an open wound about 1.5 inches across. Been through debridement, 3 courses of antibiotics, etc. Appointment at a wound clinic next week to see if there’s anything can be done. I too have been bitten multiple times in the past with no serious effect, just a black spot that healed slowly and left a tiny acne-like scar.
- fedreg 4y ago!!!! Sorry to hear about your leg!! Me fear of them just increased dramatically. I thought I was immune but may just have been lucky, as you said.