highfly 0 #1 April 8, 2005 Anyone out there ever been bitten by anything poisonous? I had a close call with a white tailed spider here in NZ. Seen it crawling over my foot and managed to get rid before it bit me. Check out the lovely Brown Recluse Spider Another bite www.myspace.com/durtymac Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 35 #2 April 8, 2005 How poisonous is it? I haven't been bitten by anything poisonous, but I have had close encounters with: rattlesnakes, copperheads, black widows, brown recluse, and scorpions. Just been lucky, I guess. "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skysprite 0 #3 April 8, 2005 Never been bitten, but we had a brown recluse nest under a house we lived in once. That was not fun! I hate creepy crawly things. ~skysprite Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MWGemini 0 #4 April 8, 2005 I was bitten by a brown recluse when I was in the Army. Along with about a million other random insects. Most are just annoying. The recluse bite is the only one that actually had me worried. Mike Edit: grammar Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MC208B 0 #5 April 8, 2005 man, that's ome ugly shit! We have HUGE cane spiders here on Maui, but they don't bite ya unless ya fuck with em. Centipedes are a whole other story tho, creepy little fucks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
highfly 0 #6 April 8, 2005 The white tip aint too bad. It can cause large welts where it bites and it's supposed to itch like fuck. www.myspace.com/durtymac Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sen.Blutarsky 0 #7 April 8, 2005 A dear friend who once had helped me to get a leg up in my profession dropped out of touch about one year ago ... ... we misinterpreted this as a grieving period following the death of my friend's dad, since father and son had been very close ethnic Swiss-German emigres. From time to time we would leave cheery vox and snail-mail invites to join us or at least call us and let us know what mischief he was up to - even pestering him to connect (he's a brilliant but painfully-shy 45 year-old who has seldom if ever dated despite his kind heart; plus, he's a 6'6" and 280 lbs bear of a guy who looks intimidating but wouldn't harm a ... well ... perhaps he _would_ harm a spider - read on). Come to find out my good friend was bitten on the side/reverse thigh by a brown recluse spider while he was cleaning out dad's artifacts from their attic after the funeral. As a result, the flesh on his affected leg has literally fallen off and is refusing to heal, we're talking conservatively a 19 to 25-inch long by several inches wide strip of flesh down nearly to the bone. Moreover, _some_ of my friend's medical doctors had believed the spider was carrying Lyme Disease when it bit him and so my friend was taking massive quantities of antibiotics and other medications with their consequent detrimental effects until recently when new, updated testing indicated that my friend probably never had Lyme. Today my friend is barely past his initial despondency - he didn't want to bother anybody with his predicament. So, right now we're in the process of launching a research drive and social circuit for our bud and his remaining family. Notice to All Arachnids: I now harbor a vendetta and don't plan to spare any of you from the Big Squish/Flush assuming you have the termity to show your 8 eyes anytime soon ... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #8 April 8, 2005 QuoteThe white tip aint too bad. It can cause large welts where it bites and it's supposed to itch like fuck. The white tailed spider here in OZ has a necrotic effect on the bites' surrounding tissue, if not dealt with the results are very simlar to those of the Recluse spider posted above. Nasty little suckers, we got loads of hereYou are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
britboynz 0 #9 April 8, 2005 The white tails we have in NZ are the same - another bloody aussie import . Not poisonous, but real nasty bite. Highfly - I'd think about gettin yer house sprayed to kill the fookers off. Spray lasts for about 6 months apparently. We also have Huntsmans - http://www.landcareresearch.co.nz/research/biodiversity/invertebratesprog/spiders/avondale.asp They're harmless, but farkin ugly buggers. Meeting one of these at 4 in the morning when you're after a glass of water stark bollock nekkid is NOT for the faint hearted. Thousands of them were exported from NZ and appeared in the movie Arachnophobia (film company couldnt get them from Australia as they're a native species in oz so are protected. No such status here in NZ as they're (another) aussie import so the film company could have as many as it could get its hands on. [edited to make clicky] Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nutz 0 #10 April 8, 2005 I was working at Ft Polk in LA and someone went to the eight holer on the test site. I always carried a piece of newspaper and a lighter with me to clean out the hole I was gonna sit on but this guy took nothing. Anyway, when he sat down a brown recluse bit him on the end of his, um, you know. I don't want to know what the results were, he wound up going home and leaving govt service. Nasty things, avoid at all costs. "Don't! Get! Eliminated!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
2fat2fly 0 #11 April 8, 2005 Well, there was this waitress I met back when I was between wives, but that's probably not what you're asking.I am not the man. But the man knows my name...and he's worried Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
