Brown recluse

[BathandBody4You]

I found a dead brown recluse spider in my kitchen cupboard last night. Yuck! Yuck! Yuck! What is a safe product to use to inside the house that won't hurt kids or pets? I don't want to call a bug place but will if I have to. Thanks! Christin :eek:

[katandron1]

WOW, sorry don't know what to use, I would have vacated the house, the spider (dead or alive) could have had it.
I'm a country girl but can't deal with spiders or snakes of any kind.

[BathandBody4You]

Ya I am NOT a spider person either! I dont like snakes but if I can see one and not be surprised by one I can deal.

[katandron1]

I did let one spider live in my house, you know those black fuzzy ones that eat flies. With 3 kids and 4 dogs and 4 cats, the door is always being opened, so we get some flies in the house.
So anyway, I let this spider live in the house UNTIL.....He jumped on the top of my laptop screen from the wall one day, WITH me sitting at the laptop......Ron had to get him and take him outside at that point.

[all_things_ballet]

Hello Christin,

While living in Hawaii a neighbor introduced us to Bayer Advanced Home Pest Control products and we have been using the spray for over 3 years with good results. We just used our last bottle and found that it was not available locally so I ordered on-line.

Here is the link www.thepestdepot.com the site also lists the product label and material safety data sheet for each of the products. They also have a category just for spiders products.

Good luck!
Miriam

[BathandBody4You]

Miriam - thanks for the link..I'll check them out.

Kat - all I can say is aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!! ! I would have had a heart attack!

[katandron1]

LOL I nearly did.......I jumped up and was in the other room before Ron and the kids knew what was wrong......Then they had the nerve to laugh at me! LOL

[all_things_ballet]

Talk about yuck, while we were stationed the first time (yes, we actually went back for a second tour) in the California desert, we arrived at our new military home to find the hallway and kitchen full of baby scorpions...

[BathandBody4You]

I know we need creepy crawly things for the environment and what not but why why why do they have to come into our homes! lol

[angelsolutions]

EEEEEEEWWWWW.....:eek: You would have had a hard time getting me out of the ceiling fan and I KNOW you would have been deaf. Yep, I'm a screamer. Can't help it ~ it's out before I realize it. Hubby makes fun of me ALL the time.

We get the common brown scorpions, brown recluse spiders and the horrible looking (but good) garden spiders. I'm petrified! Thanks from me too Miriam, for the link...I will be checking it out.

The garden spiders stay outside, but totally FREAK me out when I work on the flower beds. I know they are all deaf. AHAHAHA

[BathandBody4You]

We have those garden spiders outside too. They are actually quite pretty. I usually let those live as long as they are high enough that I wont walk into them.

[mj-trading]

Oh you Girls! A little spider is not going to hurt you!!
You want to see a big spider you should see them Bannana Spiders! They are big! There as big as a 50 cent piece or bigger! Thats why customs have to spray down the containers they come in at the port to kill them! I see them all over in the container when we unloaded them!

[BathandBody4You]

:( Well...I USED to like bananas! lol

[mj-trading]

They are washed at the stores or dist center but after knowing they use spray ect we allways wash them as soon as we get home!

[katandron1]

Oh you Girls! A little spider is not going to hurt you!!
You want to see a big spider you should see them Bannana Spiders! They are big! There as big as a 50 cent piece or bigger! Thats why customs have to spray down the containers they come in at the port to kill them! I see them all over in the container when we unloaded them!

Tell me again that a little spider can't hurt me when I come out of the ER cause I have had a heart attack:)

This is the way I look at it, a spider is a spider is a spider, no matter how big or little, same thing applies to snakes.

[angelsolutions]

:eek:

YEA...what kat said! I'll come down off the top of your head, when they're dead or taken outside. And don't *even* bring up snakes....


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[Lanascountry]

I think compared to MOST folks here, I have never been afraid of
spiders..at all..UNTIL someone sent me grapic pictures of what a
brown recluse spider does to the body..Do you all know..?? It EATS
through layers and LAYERS of flesh.. (AFTER the bite is over!)

The pictures I saw the man's hand (or most of it) was to be
amputated..Yeppers REAL afraid of ALL spiders now and I do
NOT remember them covering THAT in nursing school it also
says those guye like moist dark woodsy
areas...LIKE OUR FORREST and WOOD PILES!! :eek:

I wonder if their bite will do that to pets? :(

[angelsolutions]

Yep, brown recluse are real common here. They also hang out in garages where they get into the stuff that's stored away. We found a couple that way. GAHHHHH!

Yesterday I was weeding my front flower beds and came up on a HUGE spider bigger around than a 50 cent piece. I mean this thing was HUGE. And it was carrying its babies too. Ya never saw anyone move as fast as this old girl, lemme tell ya. And that spider? Well...it's DEAF! :rolleyes:

[Lanascountry]

Syl.. I hope I didn't gross everyone out :o..Just wanted all to know how bad and
serious it really is.. (DEADLY!)

One question I had after seeing those pictures was..why in the
He** would that guy let that get to that level before CHECKING IN to the
hospital.. I mean this was WAY past ER!!

I have lived on farms, in the woods, mountains always-- away from 'town' and I USED to
be NOT afraid of most things..

But yeppers that spider you saw would have sent me moving like lightenin!!

I DID always have a great respect for the 'BLACK WIDOW' and a couple more,
but afraid.. not really.. I NEVER remember them covering this at school at ALL..:eek:
The man's hand looked like CANCER working from the inside out..:(

[DealsHQ]

My aunt was bitten by a spider and it ate a hole in her neck and had to go to the hospital--but they got it all fixed up but it looked very bad for sometime.
She passed away several years later with cancer at age 43 :(

[spooky36]

Spider bites are bad news. Their venom is designed to start disolving it's prey so they can drink their food. So when a person gets bit, that is what happens, the skin around the bite starts to break down. When I see a spider, I use the old fashion method of bug extermination. Off comes a shoe and WHACK, no more spider. Maybe an 8 legged smudge mark, but no spider. :D

[DiMoraGifts]

Brown Recluses are nasty little guys, and although they say they are rare here in Colorado, I know I have found three in the wood pile and my garden pots!! Also known as the fiddleback spider, they have a few very distictive features, one being the fiddle shape on their backs, also they have three pairs of eyes, (very unusual for spiders) Two on the side, one in the middle:Yikes :eek:
Had a uncle who was bitten by one several years ago, and now he has a huge divot in his arm, took forever to heal.
FYI here's a few pics of a brown recluse, you can see the clearly defined, classic fiddle back ....also you can see the 3 sets of eyes

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