I was bitten by a brown recluse 25 years ago when we lived in California. I still have itching where that bite occurred. I was really sick for two days until a co-worker looked at the bite area and told me I needed to have the bite mark removed. It looks like a target. Grey in the middle and red around. I had it removed and was on antibiotics for 10 days. I recovered with no apparent side effects, except for the itching that frequently happens these days.
They are nothing to mess with. The first night after being bitten I had the chills so badly that I passed out for a couple of hours. The second night I had projectile vomiting. (My husband was out of town those couple of days or I would have had him look at my back) The third day is when I went to the doctor. The spider had set up shop behind the toilet tank in our bathroom. I did remember that I felt like my back had been hit by a large water droplet when I took off the shower cap that day. My husband found the spider and killed it. Perfect violin on it’s back. Anytime you get unbearable itching somewhere on your body, check for that target. Get to the doctor ASAP.
Also..Anytime you get unbearable itching somewhere on your body, check your date schedule for the last several days................
Have you seen that picture of a bite on a thumb? I’ve heard that they get worse every day for a while.
I was at a friend’s house and pulled a bowl down from a cabinet. There was a brown recluse in it about the size of a half dollar in the bottom that couldn’t get out. The sides were too slippery. It’s the only one I’ve ever seen (I’ve seen a lot of black widows, but I’m not really worried about them). It was oddly very pretty. And then I killed it.
I’ve heard it’s hard to kill them with chemicals because they don’t clean themselves and, therefore, don’t ingest them.
BTW, my friend was a very “back to nature” family. Their cabin was home built and there were big spaces between the floorboards. We were in a band together and during practice it was not unusual to lose a guitar pick through the floor.