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To: error99
I live in Illinois - they mainly live in the midwest, but have been found in new areas throughout the USA due to people moving from the midwest to other places.
4 posted on 05/09/2003 6:44:55 PM PDT by stlnative (Were it not for the braveā€¦there'd be no land of the free.)
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To: brigette
"I live in Illinois - they mainly live in the midwest,.."

I live in Eastern Washington State. They are here also.

Another name for them is the Fiddle Back Spider. Note the dark brown on its back looks like a fiddle.

Several years ago my son was hospitalized apparently from one of these biting him. He was pumped full of antibiotics but the poison just kept eating a deep hole in the back of his leg. Finally it stopped, but he was in the hospital for a week.

238 posted on 05/11/2003 9:39:41 PM PDT by Spunky (This little tag just keeps following me where ever I go.)
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