Woman rushed to ER with DOZENS of spider bites....

July 07, 2018, 12:53 PM

Ronin1069

Warning,

The contents of this post may cause nightmares.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...ns-spider-bites.html

A woman from Tennessee has been rushed to the ER with dozens of bites over her body, the result of an infestation of brown recluse spiders in her apartment.

Angela Wright of Brentwood, Tennessee, has been monitoring the spiders in her apartment for weeks and constantly begs her building management to do something about the problem.

To add - Are you kidding me? "Monitoring the spiders in her apartment"? Maybe from a remote location via a camera! LOL

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July 07, 2018, 12:55 PM

YooperSigs

All spiders in my home eventually become cat food.

July 07, 2018, 01:06 PM

Doc H.

Followed right up to "almost died, "almost had a stroke, "can't have children." Pictures of various arachnids (one of which might be a Brown Recluse) and caterpillars. Plus assorted tattoos. Denmark stinketh....

July 07, 2018, 01:07 PM

H&K-Guy

Nope. And hell nope.

H&K-Guy

July 07, 2018, 01:25 PM

JonDaddy82

Brentwood is maybe 15-20 minutes from my town. I've had the pest people come out specifically to handle brown recluses. Biiiiiiig problem around here.

July 07, 2018, 01:32 PM

cslinger

If I lived there the following news story would have been....

Tennessee Apartment Complex Mysteriously Burns to Ground, Arson not Being Ruled Out

July 07, 2018, 02:08 PM

mbinky

quote:
Originally posted by YooperSigs:
All spiders in my home eventually become cat food.

Do cats eat spiders? Seriously? I may need a cat.

"I hate spiders Jock, I hate 'em"
Dr. Henry Walton Jones, Jr.
(close enough...)

July 07, 2018, 02:15 PM

arfmel

Mama get Realkill™️

July 07, 2018, 02:41 PM

kkina

quote:
Originally posted by mbinky:
Do cats eat spiders? Seriously? I may need a cat.

Cats eat spiders. To them, it's a crabfest.

July 07, 2018, 03:03 PM

226Reasons

Gather 1k wolf spiders and let them loose in the apartment. Spider fight.

July 07, 2018, 05:36 PM

rduckwor

Hope the management has good liability insurance.

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July 07, 2018, 05:41 PM

egregore

If there is an infestation of spiders, what is the primary infestation? They wouldn't be there if there weren't food.

July 07, 2018, 06:01 PM

nshumway

The internet says the brown recluse eats crawling bugs- that must me a nice place to live if there is that much spider food.

July 07, 2018, 06:58 PM

justjoe

A friend of mine was bitten by a brown recluse and almost lost his arm. They are very nasty spiders, and very ordinary looking.

July 07, 2018, 10:31 PM

Ripley

quote:
Originally posted by justjoe:
...very ordinary looking.

They make up for their average looks by being unusually fast.

July 07, 2018, 11:23 PM

Haveme1or2

What there is no Raid in the stores ?
Or was this one of those that catch them to be released back out in the wild..

July 08, 2018, 05:39 PM

rburg

Nuke them from orbit. Its the only way to be sure. As for hiring exterminators, what do you have against those poor guys? Why so many of the same species? Do they eat other spiders to clear the practice field for themselves? I've never knowingly see a brown recluse. Not that I've studied spiders all that much. I don't even like looking at them. Is there a species specific killer? Does Raid or other such stuff kill them or their prey, making it advisable for the infestation to move right along?

July 08, 2018, 05:49 PM

lyman

quote:
Originally posted by kkina:
quote:
Originally posted by mbinky:
Do cats eat spiders? Seriously? I may need a cat.

Cats eat spiders. To them, it's a crabfest.

if it moves, they kill it,

and then at least try to eat it,

July 09, 2018, 10:04 AM

Perception

quote:
Originally posted by Haveme1or2:
What there is no Raid in the stores ?
Or was this one of those that catch them to be released back out in the wild..

Brown recluses are notoriously hard to kill. Most common insect poisons don't phase them at all, and pest control companies won't offer any kind of guarantee on killing them. Cypermetherin is about the only thing that kills them. To really get them, you have to take your switch plates off and put the poison in the walls as well as around the perimeter of the house. I'm in Middle Tennessee as well, and many houses around here are infested with them. I had an infestation myself about 5 years ago. I trapped hundreds of them in sticky traps, and they're cannibalistic so if you leave the traps out with the recluses in them it acts like bait and others will come running and get stuck themselves. I have 8 stuck in the trap at my office as we speak

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July 09, 2018, 10:15 AM

sigmonkey

quote:
Originally posted by lyman:...
if it moves, they kill it,

and then at least try to eat it,

LOL Reminds me of the military saying:

If it moves, salute it.
If it doesn't, pick it up.
If you can't pick it up, paint it.

So cats:

If it moves, kill it.
If it doesn't, knock it off.
If you can't knock it off, lay on it.

I pay the bug man good money and I have no bug problems. And I do my best to deny bugs food.