What kind of spider is this?

[ray1970]

A friend of my wife was bitten (in Colorado) by a brown recluse. So, rare or not, they are around here.

When I first met here she was still recovering. She got bit in the calf and it had eaten away most of the flesh and muscle. It was pretty gruesome looking. She was wheelchair bound for a while.

[spyder]

Here in Trinidad, our local catch phrase is: Transvestites, Spiders, and Bears Oh MY!
Since it was in the side yard, I couldn't shoot it... I dropped a 45 round next to it though so it knew what it was up against if it made any sudden movements...

[sniper7]

Here in Trinidad, our local catch phrase is: Transvestites, Spiders, and Bears Oh MY!
Since it was in the side yard, I couldn't shoot it... I dropped a 45 round next to it though so it knew what it was up against if it made any sudden movements...

holy shit, it would probably take a few .45s to drop that thing!

[Teufelhund]

Here in Trinidad, our local catch phrase is: Transvestites, Spiders, and Bears Oh MY!
Since it was in the side yard, I couldn't shoot it... I dropped a 45 round next to it though so it knew what it was up against if it made any sudden movements...
[IMG]http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h403/asrspyder/untitledjhp.png

Surely when you threw the .45 round at it you told it, "The next one is coming faster."

[theGinsue]

Hell yeah. What's crazy is I just bombed a couple months ago.

Not sure how true it is, but I was told in HS biology that most poisons don't work on arachnids (spiders). Something about hollow legs or something.

Maybe some sort of wolf spider?

That'd be my guess as well.

Definitely not a recluse though, not without the violin. This admin has been bitten by one of those, when I was a young toddler. Put a big hole in my belly. When I got older, I made it my goal to learn as much as I could about those things.

Now, I've got black widows in my sprinkler valve box. Clearly see the red hourglass on them. first ones I've ever seen in real life. I have to clear the webs out of the way every time to need to get into the box. Spooks the heck out of me - worried one of 'em is gonna go out of their way to bite me. So far, they just scurry away.

all I know is I kill spiders, all of them. kill it with fire if possible!

Amen to that. Same here.

[brokenscout]

A friend of my wife was bitten (in Colorado) by a brown recluse. So, rare or not, they are around here.

When I first met here she was still recovering. She got bit in the calf and it had eaten away most of the flesh and muscle. It was pretty gruesome looking. She was wheelchair bound for a while.

Same thing happend to me, left calf....they suck....

[brutal]

A friend of my wife was bitten (in Colorado) by a brown recluse. So, rare or not, they are around here.

When I first met here she was still recovering. She got bit in the calf and it had eaten away most of the flesh and muscle. It was pretty gruesome looking. She was wheelchair bound for a while.

A fellow soldier got bitten by one on the ass when we were going through field excercises in BNOC at Ft. Riley, KS. Poor guy didn't know what got him until the flesh started rotting. As I recall, they got him into the hyperbaric oxygen chamber, but since most treatments are ineffective, he still lost a sizable piece of his gluteus maximus and obviously had to be dropped from the course.

[brokenscout]

A fellow soldier got bitten by one on the ass when we were going through field excercises in BNOC at Ft. Riley, KS. Poor guy didn't know what got him until the flesh started rotting. As I recall, they got him into the hyperbaric oxygen chamber, but since most treatments are ineffective, he still lost a sizable piece of his gluteus maximus and obviously had to be dropped from the course.

I got bit at Fort Sill,OK. nickel size scar & they treated it quick..

[BlasterBob]

A friend of my wife was bitten (in Colorado) by a brown recluse. So, rare or not, they are around here.

When I first met here she was still recovering. She got bit in the calf and it had eaten away most of the flesh and muscle. It was pretty gruesome looking. She was wheelchair bound for a while.

A couple months ago, my 7 year old grandson got bitten by a damn brown recluse while up in Wisconsin on vacation. He got some immediate medical treatment and the Doc apparently recognized the bite and knew how to get treatment started. Here is a picture of the wound that is almost totally healed completely. He was given some really foul smelling/tasting medicine for this thing.