[Pyro7480]

How should I eliminate the threat of being bitten myself? Should I call an exterminator?

[TexasCajun]

You'd better be careful!

Have you seen pictures of bite victims?

Very, very bad little creatures.

[Red Badger]

R - A - I - D ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

[newsgatherer]

Move to Maine

[AppyPappy]

Just bugbomb the house. My wife was bitten by one in NC as was a friend. It's really ugly.

[AppyPappy]

Just bugbomb the house. My wife was bitten by one in NC as was a friend. It's really ugly.

[dead]

I've heard that they can be found as north as Maryland.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Call a bug man immediately. Leave the place for a day after he's been there. Mention the brown reculse bite and make sure his spray will kill spiders. Have him come back and spray again in three months. These bugs are nothing to fool with and they can be found as far north as Minnesota.

[Phantom Lord]

While the Black Widow is the most well known poisonious spider, the Brown Recluse is actually far more dangerous.

[nuffsenuff]

I've heard that we have them here in Northern Virginia.

How did it "become obvious" that something was wrong? I haven't heard of the effects of a bite.

[dirtboy]

It could be a misdiagnosis:

http://spiders.ucr.edu/

[PBRSTREETGANG]

http://www.brown-recluse.com/

[ctlpdad]

If you kill a spider you make it rain.

[Virginia Queen]

I was bitten by one - in VA - in 1982 so they have lived here for quite a long time. Also, my nephew - who lives in Poolesville, MD - was bitten 3 yrs ago while sleeping over at a friends house. They like to creep up on you in the night. (Sorry, just could not resist that.) I thought I was going to lose my leg.

[processing please hold]

My husband was bitten 5 times by a brown recluse. By the time he went to the Dr, days later, the Dr. said he was lucky to be alive.

[ErnBatavia]

Tale of Ed ping!

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

There is some sort of electrostimulation treatment for bites. It isnt exactly a main stream treatment (Nothing seems to work) but I have seen a lot of people swear by it. (Essentially tazer the bite)

WARNING - disgusting pics.

http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin/md/brownrecluse.html

http://www.highway60.com/mark/brs/linda_bite.htm

[caver]

They are in Indiana. A friend got bit and was fortunate that it didn't do a lot of tissue damage. He still has a sizable scar though.

[Right Wing Professor]

Range map here

Looks like they're moving into Northern VA. There goes the neighborhood, eh?

[TexasCajun]

check this out. sorry for being Html challanged.

http://dermatlas.med.jhmi.edu/derm/IndexDisplay.cfm?ImageID=1467319660

[Gefreiter]

I heard about comedian Bob Schimmel nearly being bitten by one during a show on Cape Cod last summer.

Wasn't there, just what I heard.