[cuban leaf]

The pictures online of those spider bites scare the beejesus out of me.

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We moved from Seattle to KY about three years ago and it was the one thing that concerned me. However, my neighbor has been bitten twice. Both times he just went to the doctor and they do something like using a hole punch to take out the skin around the bite and it usually heals up almost like nothing ever happened.

Apparently their bite is not poisonous but it carries a flesh eating bacteria. That’s why you have to remove the flesh close to the bite. If you don’t you end up with pictures of your thumb, etc. on the internet to scare everyone. ;-)

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Side note, we like in WA and are thinking of relocating to KY? How do you like it? We have been in the NW for a very long time, did you transition well?

[RinaseaofDs]

In the PacNW the brown recluse is really the only spider you have to worry about. We have the hobo too, but the BR is the real baddy, and hangs out in wood piles.

We teach Scouts how to gather wood from piles - knocking them against the ground before gathering them up in their arms.

It’s the necrotizing that really does it. I had an Asst. Scoutmaster get bit on the posterior while working as a plumber. Out for three weeks. Doofus wouldn’t get treatment after begging him to do so.

It’s true, they do a sort of Mohr’s surgery to make sure the last tissue cut is free of the bad bacteria.