Posted on 10/03/2010 11:40:28 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The poisonous brown recluse spider is a very rare sight in New York City. So imagine one woman's surprise upon finding the venomous creature in her sink.
Gail Ingram claims she found the first recluse spider in the sink of her apartment on Gramercy Park in Manhattan. And despite the wave of bedbugs sweeping through the city -- the latest such infestation was discovered in shock jock Howard Stern's office -- poisonous spiders are a different story entirely.
Yet there it was.
"I discovered a brown recluse spider in my kitchen sink,"
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Poisonous spiders...... is there any other kind?..
This is News?!? Heck, I see these spiders all the time in Southern Kansas. They like dark, dry places. Have to check my shoes in the springtime before I put them on! Perhaps it is news for New York City, but I know the Brown Recluse is widespread, in every contiguous state, I believe.
This isn’t a big ‘scoop’ or anything. This is what we call a ‘slow news day.’
The last time I was at the dentist’s office, as I was leaving there was a Brown Recluse on the door knob going out. I almost grabbed it. I was a little shocked that it was there. They don’t typically venture around out in the open, especially on door knobs!
I would have thought an infestation of crabs would be found in Howard Stern’s offices, not bedbugs.
We have the Brown Recluse here in Tennessee, too. I killed a Black Widow in the dog kennel the other day. Nasty looking creatures.
Didn't Mythbusters expose this as an urban myth?
Daddy longleg spiders are one of the most poisonous spiders in the world, but their fangs are too tiny to penetrate human skin.
Consider ourselves fortunate!
And that just about says it all about our society. Sheesh
Now real estate agents are showing the apartment, as, “the perfect place for people who built up a tolerance to spider venom.”
Will spiders kill bed bugs?
“Will spiders kill bed bugs?”
Yes, absolutely! And then to get rid of the spiders you need to introduce Chinese needle snakes...
“KENT
Our top story, the population of poisonous spiders has exploded, and local citizens couldn’t be happier! It seems the rapacious spiders have developed a taste for the common bed bug. For the first time, citizens need not fear getting eaten alive at night by walking disease-bags.
SKINNER
Well, I was wrong. The spiders are a godsend.
LISA
But isn’t that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we’re overrun by spiders?
SKINNER
No problem. We simply unleash wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They’ll wipe out the spiders.
LISA
But aren’t the snakes even worse?
SKINNER
Yes, but we’re prepared for that. We’ve lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
LISA
But then we’re stuck with gorillas!
SKINNER
No, that’s the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.”
LOL.
My friend was bitten by a recluse spider. She nearly lost her hand. The surgeons did manage to save her hand, but it is very disfigured and she has no use whatsoever of some of her fingers.
Oh wow!
Maybe this is all part of God’s plan to afflict this nation with plagues.
I have been bitten 3 times by Brown Recluse Spiders.
It takes a long time for the bite wounds to heal. You have to really take care of the wounds. I have 3 nickle size scars from the 3 different times I was bitten.
Brown Recluse Spiders are every where in Missouri & Illinois.
Yikes!
Ir’s necrotizing!
Somehow, the enzymes they inject do two things:
Digest your tissue, and turn some of it into more necrotizing toxin.
Then they lay back and suck it up... the only things they’re missing are a coupla Buds and a field goal...
It is news for NYC...the spider is not native there and apparently hasn’t been established there either.
Either they are establishing themselves here in the NE or a small population of them was trucked in somehow and wound up in this apartment.
I hate to burst your bubble, but a Daddy Longlegs is not a spider. It's an Arachnid. All arachnids have eight legs, although in some species the front pair may convert to a sensory function. Creepy, yes, deadly, no.
I hate to burst your bubble, but a Daddy Longlegs is not a spider. It's an Arachnid. All arachnids have eight legs, although in some species the front pair may convert to a sensory function. Creepy, yes, deadly, no.
Of course the spiders would say:
New York apartments overrun by monkeys with big behinds!!
Two sides to every story, right?
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