then again... Wrote:
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> ...there's this info from another br spider
> website,
http://brownreclusespider.com/info.htm:
>
> Email Photos of Spider Bites - Are they Real?
>
> Many people have been circulating a series of
> images showing a terrible bite with the skin
> deteriorating to the bone claiming the injury to
> be a brown recluse spider bite. An expert offers
> the following:
>
> It is possible that the wound did result from a
> recluse bite. However, a number of aspects of this
> story are pretty suspicious, and have the classic
> symptoms of a hoax.
>
> No one can seem to verify where the alleged bite
> occurred, whether a spider was caught in the act
> of biting or at the scene of the crime, whether
> the victim was tested for additional etiologic
> agents of necrosis such as bacterial infection, if
> a doctor actually made the diagnosis or it was a
> self-diagnosis from the victim, if the diagnosis
> came from an area of the country that actually has
> brown recluses, etc.
>
> Some versions of this have included a picture of a
> spider that was supposed THE spider that caused
> the wound. Not so. It is a stock photo from an
> Ohio university website. This image was used last
> year in a very hyperbolic news story in Long
> Island.
>
> The final summary on this is that if it indeed is
> a brown recluse bite, then it is truly one of the
> rare, horrific ones however, there is not
> sufficient information provided with this image to
> ascertain whether it is credible or not.
>
> Rick Vetter Entomology Univ. Calif. Riverside
> Riverside, CA 92521
The point wasn't about the wounds, at least that wasn't my intent in starting this thread.
My point was that I was rather surprised to find Brown Recluse Spiders in my shed as I had NEVER seen them this far north. Like I said, Southern VA, NC and SC are places I've seen them but never in Fairfax VA near GMU...
I used a bug bomb in my shed and assume that pretty much everything in the shed is now dead.