[SuziQ]

but I've recently seen some pictures of brown recluse spider bites which can get pretty nasty

One of the Girl Scout leaders got bitten by a brown recluse spider on the Encampment we went on weekend before last. She's got a NASTY looking area on her forehead where it bit her. It had been in her sleeping bag. I made sure to roll my bag up tight before I left the tent in the morning so no critters had a chance to move in while I was gone!

[Fedora]

One of the Girl Scout leaders got bitten by a brown recluse spider on the Encampment we went on weekend before last. She's got a NASTY looking area on her forehead where it bit her. It had been in her sleeping bag. I made sure to roll my bag up tight before I left the tent in the morning so no critters had a chance to move in while I was gone!

Yikes! I washed my sheets and turned over the mattress--no sign of Shelob :) Hope it doesn't come back when I'm sleeping, though. . .I'm having visions of that scene in Dr. No where the tarantula crawls up Sean Connery! :)