I found this cute little guy... [Archive]

CALL AAA

12-07-2005, 11:19 PM

...next to my wife's nightstand.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/CALLAAA/croppedblackwidow.jpg
Do they make spider-shot for shotguns?

LAZY TURBO

12-07-2005, 11:25 PM

that guy looks like he could do a lil damage to someone, but not as bad this mother f*cker....

http://www.calebgroom.com/images/misc/camel_spider_large.jpg

CALL AAA

12-07-2005, 11:30 PM

Ummm, yeah. Those are the reason grenade launchers were invented.

karl

12-07-2005, 11:31 PM

ive been bit twice this year by them----its not a good feeling
this felt like someone hit me in the leg with a baseball bat
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/ckay1/DSC00954.jpg

LAZY TURBO

12-07-2005, 11:59 PM

ive been bit twice this year by them----its not a good feeling
this felt like someone hit me in the leg with a baseball bat
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/ckay1/DSC00954.jpg

dammmmmmmmmm how did everything turn out? everything ok?

beehotch619

12-08-2005, 12:31 AM

ive been bit twice this year by them----its not a good feeling
this felt like someone hit me in the leg with a baseball bat
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/ckay1/DSC00954.jpg

holy crap!!!! that happened to me too, except i didnt know it was from a black widow........ thanks, i learned something new today...

Troike

12-08-2005, 10:51 AM

Whoa, I had black widows in my dreams last night ... all over the place, it freaked me out.

DTolo

12-08-2005, 12:52 PM

Brown Recluse Spider bites will also look like that initially... if they don't get worse.

Tom (aka Godzilla)

12-08-2005, 01:17 PM

karl

12-08-2005, 01:17 PM

i assume it was a black widow because thats what i found under the couch at my gf house, but yeah, it was huge and hurt really bad, i now have a red pimple-like bump that needs to be removed surgically-----those bites are no joke

madajb

12-08-2005, 01:26 PM

Brown Recluse Spider bites will also look like that initially... if they don't get worse.
Brown Recluse spiders are not commonly found in California.

-ajb

Tom (aka Godzilla)

12-08-2005, 01:35 PM

Brown Recluse spiders are not commonly found in California.

-ajb
Camp Pendleton has plenty of them. Although it's not a place that everyone gets the privlege of visiting.

URQ

12-08-2005, 01:37 PM

I was bitten on my face by a Brown Recluse in Michigan several years back the swelling and it was so bad by mid morning I could not see out my left eye because of all the swelling.

madajb

12-08-2005, 02:36 PM

Camp Pendleton has plenty of them. Although it's not a place that everyone gets the privlege of visiting.
As I said. (http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7468.html)
It is possible, though very unlikely, that a recent transfer to Pendleton could be bitten by a Brown Recluse while unpacking boxes transported from the Midwest.

-ajb

PDVR6

12-08-2005, 03:25 PM

http://www.rochedalss.eq.edu.au/bites/11%20days%20later.JPG

Yea, brown recluse....no good.

DTolo

12-08-2005, 04:11 PM

As I said. (http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7468.html)
It possible, though very unlikely, that a recent transfer to Pendleton could be bitten by a Brown Recluse while unpacking boxes transported from the Midwest.

-ajb

There are plenty of these Brown Wonders in 29 Palms, they hang out with their cousins the Desert Recluse.
I also found a Brown Recluse in my Apt when I was neighbors with Steve, in Vista.

DTolo

12-08-2005, 04:18 PM

There are plenty of these Brown Wonders in 29 Palms, they hang out with their cousins the Desert Recluse.
I also found a Brown Recluse in my Apt when I was neighbors with Steve, in Vista.

After reading the article I may have "mis-identified" my spider in the Apartment, but most of my "encounters" from a Brown Recluse happened when somebody was diagnosed with a Brown Recluse Spider bite while in the field. In some cases causing Celulitis <--sp?

Back on topic, That is a sweet pic of the Black widow.

madajb

12-08-2005, 05:05 PM

After reading the article I may have "mis-identified" my spider in the Apartment, but most of my "encounters" from a Brown Recluse happened when somebody was diagnosed with a Brown Recluse Spider bite while in the field. In some cases causing Celulitis <--sp?

Sorry, I wasn't intending to question you, just saying that karl's bite was unlikely to be a brown recluse bite.

And yeah, that spider gives me the creeps.
heh.

-ajb

V-Dub-Syndicate

12-08-2005, 05:14 PM

The Poison of the Brown Recluse causes Necrosis of the Skin. hence the wholes and very large sores

jjrosales

12-08-2005, 09:17 PM

i saw a couple of those in iraq and kuwait, those thinks are huge although it looks like two in that pic, one of those was next to my rack one evening when i had to use the head, let me tell you after that night i never got up in the middle of the night again. i belive if i am not mistaken they are camel spiders.
that guy looks like he could do a lil damage to someone, but not as bad this mother f*cker....

http://www.calebgroom.com/images/misc/camel_spider_large.jpg

Monster8V

12-08-2005, 11:05 PM

ive been bit twice this year by them----its not a good feeling
this felt like someone hit me in the leg with a baseball bat
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v169/ckay1/DSC00954.jpg

Hey, least you didnt get shot!
http://www.mezeracing.com/shot.jpg

I have black widows all over my place. (outside.) Let em eat!

CALL AAA

12-10-2005, 02:05 AM

They're fine when they're outside, I am prettty careful about reaching under the ledge, under the grill and other hiding spots. But this one was hanging off the side of my wife's nightstand. If it was a little farther off the carpet, I would have killed it with a blowtorch. I have no problem with spiders, but black widows are CREEPY.

I have heard some crazy stories about brown recluses. It may be an urban legend, but there as one case where a guy was bit on the leg, and in the end, he lost/had to lose the lower half of one leg, the lower half of one arm and the tp of his nose.
NOT COOL.

This ugly f***er was on my fence last spring.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y123/CALLAAA/bigspiderinbackyard.jpg

Troike

12-10-2005, 01:55 PM

:eek:
Holy Christ, what the hell is that?!

And for some NASTY pics look at image 6 and 7 on this (http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/chp/brown%20recluse/) link ...

I had no idea any sort of spider could be dangerous, now I don't like them as much ...

Too cold for them up here, but I walked into spider webs all night at my job in Carlsbad this summer, always freaked me out.

PDVR6

12-10-2005, 05:11 PM

Yea, my mom uses those pictures when training new nurses.

01rdGOLF

12-10-2005, 09:49 PM

http://www.rochedalss.eq.edu.au/bites/11%20days%20later.JPG

Yea, brown recluse....no good.

HOOOOOOOOLY Shishkabobs!!!! Is that real??? how can you have a big ass hole in your leg like that and just chill there?????? damn! :eek:

CALL AAA

12-11-2005, 03:57 AM

HOOOOOOOOLY Shishkabobs!!!! Is that real??? how can you have a big ass hole in your leg like that and just chill there?????? damn! :eek:

For me the answer would lie in powerful sedatives. That is, unless they had to pound adrenaline directly into my heart.