They are really small and really fast. Speaking from experience. I was bitten on my back; the itching nearly drove me nuts. I asked a co-worker to look at the bite and she said GO TO THE DR. The bite looks like a target. After a few days the tissue starts dying. I went to a walk in clinic, they cut out the bite mark, dressed the wound and said not to take a shower for 24 hours and then put me on antibiotics for 10 days. The things I went through for those 48 hours before going to the Dr were the things of which nightmares are made.
Know them all too well. Have them in our home.
We’ve dusted to get rid of them....but the best way to get ‘em are sticky traps.
I have a species which looks almost just like that. I looked it up on internet and the only difference I could find are mine has small spikes on it’s legs.
Also the brown recluse can be killed by simply spraying it with water. The ones in my house don’t mind water. They even have the violin shape.
Naw...you don’t wanna look up pics of bites.
I got bit on the left fore arm last summer while doing a wood fence job. I remembered brushing a bug off my arm and it sticking, but didn’t pay attention to it.
That was Saturday.
Sunday, I got really sick.
Tuesday a boil popped up.
Thursday morning the boil turned into a dime sized hole.
That’s when I went to er. I had started antibiotics the day before, and that’s what kept mine from getting bad.
The er doc scraped and cleaned the wound, which had began to eat into my bone. Had it done so, it woulda been bad.
Been through much worse, but its not something I wanna relive.
The husband of a former co-worker was bitten my a recluse - dang near lost his hand.