28 Jun
2002
28 Jun
'02
5:40 a.m.
For those arachnophobes, check out this link:
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2061.html
Sam's picture doesn't look like a brown recluse.
Rich
28 Jun
28 Jun
6:03 a.m.
I've researched the net for Brown Recluse before. You really have to
look at a lot of pictures, and read many descriptions. Alot of the
pictures on web sites don't even look like the same.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
Cini, Richard wrote:
For those arachnophobes, check out this link:
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2061.html
Sam's picture doesn't look like a brown recluse.
Rich
6:44 a.m.
"Chad Fernandez" <fernande(a)internet1.net> said:
I've researched the net for Brown Recluse before.
You really have to
look at a lot of pictures, and read many descriptions. Alot of the
pictures on web sites don't even look like the same.
I'm thankful the worst
we've got to deal with over here in the UK are
two-inch black house spiders... They do seem to have a taste for flies,
though.
I wish some of the spiders around here would acquire a taste for wasps...
Gawd I hate those things...
Poisonous spiders - just one of the many reasons I'm not moving to the USA
or Australia any time soon... I went to New York (Long Island) last year and
saw a spider that was black (IIRC) and looked like a two-inch replica of the
one in Rockefeller Plaza (?). i.e. long legs, don't know if it had any hair
on it, and it looked like it had cuts taken out of the back of it... Kinda
like chicken-wire.
Later.
--
Phil.
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http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/
10:32 a.m.
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For those arachnophobes, check out this link:
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2061.html
Sam's picture doesn't look like a brown recluse.
It's also too large to be a brown recluse. It looks like a wolf spider
to me. http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/biodiv/spiders/Lycosa%20sp.htm
Not to mention that there are no Brown Recluses in California, despite
myths to the contrary. (There's an entymologist at UCSD who has offered a
reward of $10,000 for anyone who discovers a breeding population of
Brown recluses in the state. Finding one in a crate of oranges doesn't
count.) ISTR that california does has a population of less dangerous
recluses. Black Widows and tarantulas we got.
Eric
29 Jun
29 Jun
4:49 a.m.
On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Eric J. Korpela wrote:
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While I didn't get too close to her face (I'm a wuss) and didn't notice
those big scary eyes, the markings are definitely a real good match for
the one I found.
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For those arachnophobes, check out this link:
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2061.html
Sam's picture doesn't look like a brown recluse.
It's also too large to be a brown recluse. It looks like a wolf spider
to me. http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/biodiv/spiders/Lycosa%20sp.htm 
7:31 a.m.
Not to mention that there are no Brown Recluses in
California, despite
myths to the contrary.
Well, I'll be darned -- you're absolutely right. Reference
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7468.html
However, I do distinctly remember fiddlebacked spiders in the showers in camp.
9:13 a.m.
Anecdotal evidence of Brown Recluses in California:
For years I worked Race Course Setup for the Unlimited Hydroplane races
in San Diego. One of our course workers was bitten by a Brown Recluse
while sitting on the dock in Mission Bay. Took him over eight months to
recover. Nasty creature... Symptoms were flu-like followed by rotting
flesh. He was hospitalized for about a month.
Theory was that the spider hitched a ride from AZ in either the boat or
the boat trailer. Boat and trailer went into the water and the spider
made its way to the dock.
If the arachnid guy wants to find them in California, I'd suggest he
look around the docks where the Zonies plop their boats in the water.
He'll find them.
Jim
Eric J. Korpela wrote:
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For those arachnophobes, check out this link:
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2061.html
Sam's picture doesn't look like a brown recluse.
It's also too large to be a brown recluse. It looks like a wolf spider
to me. http://mamba.bio.uci.edu/~pjbryant/biodiv/spiders/Lycosa%20sp.htm
Not to mention that there are no Brown Recluses in California, despite
myths to the contrary. (There's an entymologist at UCSD who has offered a
reward of $10,000 for anyone who discovers a breeding population of
Brown recluses in the state. Finding one in a crate of oranges doesn't
count.) ISTR that california does has a population of less dangerous
recluses. Black Widows and tarantulas we got.
Eric
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