Posted on 10/10/2014 5:45:29 PM PDT by driftdiver
Spiders have claimed ownership of one home in Missouri and turned it into a real-life house of horrors.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that in 2007, Brian and Susan Trost bought a 2,400-square-foot ranch home in Weldon Spring. The home, built in 1988, has golf course views and was purchased for $450,000.
Shortly after taking ownership of the home, the Trosts began to see the spiders.
Everywhere.
In civil trial testimony, Susan claims to have seen live spiders on light fixtures, window blinds, air registers, behind loose wallpaper in the kitchen and in the basement’s bar area. Spider skeletons fell from overhead lights.
Then there was the time Susan was in the shower. She had to dodge a spider that fell from the ceiling. Fortunately, it was washed down the drain.
But the danger became all too real when Susan heard her 4-year-old son screaming. There was a large spider inches from his foot.
Susan soon discovered that the house was infested with brown recluse spiders. While the brown recluse can inflict a painful bite, the venom is not usually fatal.
At the civil trial, an expert estimated that the Trost home contained between 4,500 and 6,500 spiders.
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Recluse, the venom kills the tissue and it starts rotting. Spreads and feeds the process on your tissue.
And, BTW, they’re good at ‘playing dead’ when you think you’ve got ‘em.
Yep. It’s called ‘necrosis’.
I'd suggest freezing them with liquid nitrogen. Safer. . . drain the pipes, release the supercooled gas, and freeze the place. Dead, dead, dead.
They meant multiple
Sometimes, but not always, the answer to your question is answered in the article. In this case, the last two paragraphs.
LOL
That’s what’s being done now with something that kills the eggs as well. There have to be egg sacks everywhere in that house in the walls, behind cabinets, etc. That’s something that doesn’t happen over night. Did the prior owner/bank know about them? What about the inspector who did the inspection for the buyer and lender. There is no way an infestation even 1/4 that size should have been missed. There is a potential claim against both the inspection company and prior owner. If the prior owner was a bank then they would have an earlier inspection when they foreclosed on the property plus one before it was sold if they had it for more than a few months due to the damage vacant/foreclosed homes get while waiting sale
The insurance company is correct it’s not covered.
Daddy Longlegs?
Look up the “Pelican Spider”: they’ve been preying on other spiders—and some have turned up in amber fossils, from millions of years ago.
Sweet little garter snakes. What’s the problem?
As for a massive spider infestation, does that me Massive Spiders?
We do not like insects, though the only spiders we have a problem with are large "cane" things that weave webs outside at eye level for you to walk into. The favored killing technique is a propane lighter and wait for the pop.
Don't tell me you missed that classic 50's B&W scifi movie with the monster tarantula? Even a nuke could not take him out. That was a badass spider.
Lol up bite brown recluse spider using Google. Then look at the pictures. We don’t have them here just Black Widows and I’d rather be bitten by one of them then a recluse
Kinda creepy for a spider story.
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