Recluse spider's venom is an enzymic type vemon, it actually eats the skin
away.
-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
-> [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Douglas Quebbeman
-> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 7:36 AM
-> To: 'classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org'
-> Subject: RE: Wierd Things you've found inside... (was Smoking around
-> computers)
->
->
-> > Yeah, just what we would need to find..... a Sydney Funnel Web spider.
-> > I don't even want to meet a Brown Recluse.
->
-> All spiders have toxins in their venom; not all toxins are
-> dangerous to humans. Apparently most humans *are* susecptible
-> to the brown recluse, but in varying degrees.
->
-> I've seen the brown recluse in my home, among several
-> other species. Can't always tell which is which but I
-> can tell that some are different from others.