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Offline gofaster

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« Reply #30 on: June 16, 2004, 10:52:00 AM »
That stump is 2 feet across, right? Or more?  My god man, look at the FANGS!

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« Reply #31 on: June 16, 2004, 10:59:50 AM »
Brown Recluse


Bite after 3 days:


...after 10 days...
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« Reply #32 on: June 16, 2004, 11:02:11 AM »
YIKES...that is really horrible.  That guy needs to get some maggots on that thumb to have them munch up the dead skin.
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« Reply #33 on: June 16, 2004, 11:02:57 AM »
Half dollar size sounds extremely large for a black widow.  Most of them dont get that large.  They are actually pretty small for such a deadly sounding creature.
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« Reply #34 on: June 16, 2004, 11:10:17 AM »
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Just be glad you don't have camel spiders.  Now THOSE are some nasty arachnids!


Camel spiders aren't poisonous.
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« Reply #35 on: June 16, 2004, 11:12:00 AM »
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They are very common here. Nothing to worry about.


The further south you go the bigger they get, had one bite me in the back twice in florida(once in the middle of the back and once on the shoulder within a minute), was in ICU for 14 hours. My heart stopped twice. I would not call them nothing to worry about, they have been known to kill cattle. They normally do not target humans and only travel at night when it's cool and damp. I was laying out tanning, but my lounge chair had rusty water in it, so I laid out on the walkway leading out to the washroom(separate from the house), big mistake. I sat up to put on some oil and laid back down right on it. The one that bit me had the body of a good size bumble bee. I was in alot of pain. I hear they have an antidote now, back then they didn't(cept an experimental one that they didn't have there). My back peeled for over a week, huge pieces, it killed many layers of skin.
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« Reply #36 on: June 16, 2004, 11:14:08 AM »
"Camel spiders aren't poisonous."

No.  But they'll eat a dingo and dingo's eat babies so if you see one of those carnivourous bastidges you better hide the kids PERIOD.
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« Reply #37 on: June 16, 2004, 11:20:13 AM »
2bighorn, looks like that guy scratched the bite and burst the venom sack.
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« Reply #38 on: June 16, 2004, 11:24:01 AM »
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An spraying them with insecticide doesn't do much normally.....you have to smash them.


I've had good results with insecticides. Windex also works really well. You spray the Windex on the bottom of your shoe, and then step on the spider.

When my daughter was about two-years old, she walked into the kitchen and said, "Daddy, look." In the palm of her hand was a live black widow. My heart skipped a beat or two.
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« Reply #39 on: June 16, 2004, 12:28:41 PM »
Anyone ever watch Venom ER? Mostly it's snake bite victims, but now and then a spider bite comes in too. Black widow spider can do some nasty things to you and put you in agony for a couple of days, but you'll most likely live.

When I was a teen i got bitten on my back by a recluse. Nowhere near as bad for me as for the guy a few posts ago, but I still have a small scar where the tissue damage occured. Blargh...hate em.
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« Reply #40 on: June 16, 2004, 12:33:18 PM »
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Anyone ever watch Venom ER? Mostly it's snake bite victims, but now and then a spider bite comes in too. Black widow spider can do some nasty things to you and put you in agony for a couple of days, but you'll most likely live.


Actually I have seen Venom ER, but only episodes on snakes.

In one episode there was a guy who had a really, really bad bite and was sponatenously bleeding out of his ear, nose, mouth...everywhere.  I don't think he survived.
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« Reply #41 on: June 16, 2004, 12:35:12 PM »
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Actually I have seen Venom ER, but only episodes on snakes.

In one episode there was a guy who had a really, really bad bite and was sponatenously bleeding out of his ear, nose, mouth...everywhere.  I don't think he survived.


I know the episode you're talking about. Yeah, that guy had a severe reaction to the Mojave rattlesnake bite. Believe it or not...he lived! Thought for sure he was going to be a goner...

Even the doc on the show said it was the worst case he had ever seen.
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« Reply #42 on: June 16, 2004, 12:41:49 PM »
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« Reply #43 on: June 16, 2004, 12:54:35 PM »
If you sleep naked with vasoline all over you, you will not be bitten.... I'm pretty sure.
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« Reply #44 on: June 16, 2004, 12:54:53 PM »
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I know the episode you're talking about. Yeah, that guy had a severe reaction to the Mojave rattlesnake bite. Believe it or not...he lived! Thought for sure he was going to be a goner...

Even the doc on the show said it was the worst case he had ever seen.


Mojave rattlers are extremely nasty.
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