triple BAD spider bite!!!

[harpp]

I am paying dearly for that 1891 seated dime that i found two days ago! I guess i walked under the wrong tree or thru the wrong bushes Just walkin thru a friendly neiborhood park or was it the URBAN JUNGLE View my bites at http://www.putfile.com/harpp

[bigjohn]

are ya shure there spider bites. ifn a widow it will make you sick. a brown ruclose will kill the tisue and start ulcering. if its a ruclos(sp) ya got to get on antibiotics.! good luck. and let us know.

[harpp]

3 of them on my neck. this is day 3 with them & the swelling has gone down a bit but im getting a large red spot around them. he bit me 3 times within the circumference of a silver dollar felt him a little but I never saw him him so I dont have a clue what kind he was -anyway I'll live. I hope its NOT a recluse! If anybody knows those symtoms................ thanx for the concern, Harpp

[RingDancer]

I sure hope it wasn't one of those recluses (not sure how to spell it) I have seen a bite on someone's leg and it will start rotting a hole straight through to the other side...Not sure but I guess that is why you need the antibiotics to stop this...Hope you have checked with a doctor!!!

Pat

[harpp]

just a couple of bumps left on my neck , it wasn't a recluse. thank you for your concern. i looked up "recluse" on the net & they said recluse spiders dont live in california. i did 1/2 hour of detecting today & found another silver ring. wooo hooo!

[RingDancer]

Wooohoooo on the silver ring and sure hope ya didn't find the first recluse in California

Glad to hear you are healing up fine!!!!

And just a little funnin around there!!!!

Pat

[TwoDogsBob]

Originally Posted by harpp

just a couple of bumps left on my neck , it wasn't a recluse. thank you for your concern. i looked up "recluse" on the net & they said recluse spiders dont live in california. i did 1/2 hour of detecting today & found another silver ring. wooo hooo!

I saw an article in a newspaper up here saying the same thing, "they don't live in Californina" but in the same article there was a story about a man in Redding who was bitten by one. I also know a gentleman who lives in the Sierra foothill area of Nevada City who was bitten on the leg by a spider. Only thing the doctors could figure out was a recluse because of the resulting wound. He now sports a very large scar..

[bigjohn]

glad your bites are better. its that time of year. out here we only worrie about black widows,brown rocluese,copperheads,rattlers,yellow jackets and hornets. other than that its good diggings.

[montyburns]

Last summer I was hunting around some tennis courts and I saw a small hole next to the concrete. When I ran my detector over it I noticed some small bugs flying out, not much more than a quarter inch in length. I thought, "What the heck kind of bug is that" and stood there watching for a minute or two. Suddenly one of those "bugs" nailed me on the arm and it felt like my arm was on fire! After I murdered the small assailant I could see that it was a tiny yellow jacket looking wasp, a kind I had never seen before! I hightailed it and my arm burned for nearly 4 hours and a big red welt raised on my arm that hurt for 3 or 4 days! Those little buggers were potent! Right at sundown I went back with a bottle of undiluted insect poison and quickly poured a couple of ounces down the hole and covered it with a rock so they couldn't get out. Next day they were apparently all dead as there was no activity around the hole. I couldn't help but worry about what if some barefoot kid walked over it or sat down on that spot. I talked to a game biologist and he told me it was a new breed of yellow jacket wasp that had just been seen in our area for the past couple of years and that it had been imported from somewhere I forget where now. You can bet I don't go poking a stick into a hole in the ground anymore! Monty

[bigjohn]

i allready got hit this year. stoped the tractor over the hole. not good. last year the boy and i were cutting out a spot by the pond to fish. he cut into a nest. really not good. seems like not one or two come at ya they all do. i herd if they swarm ya run thru brush. trees limbs folage anything to nock em off. and deep woods off or deet wont faze em. when i go to a new area for digging i watch the ground for a few minutes. a friend of mine 10-15 years ago dug rite into a nest. bad. put him i the hospital. they are bad voodoo.