[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: spider story

[Iggy McSnurd]

>A. Vulgarweed:
> Iggy, thank you SO MUCH for the information about brown recluse venom
being
> NECROTIC. I will sleep SO much better, thank you. :P

Iggy here:

*chuckle*  Just comfort yourself with these facts:

1: Brown recluses don't like people and tend to want to hunt only in narrow
spaces, given the choice.  You should be pretty safe in your bed.

2:  Brown recluse venom doesn't require an antivenom, you just need the area
numbed and excised.  They can do this easily in any emergency room.  Unless
you have that bad genetic reaction, the procedure and cure are pretty
simple, from what I've been told.  My uncle was bitten by one, and said that
getting treatment was easy, and pretty much painless.

>A. Vulgarweed:
> I SHRIEKED, and the maid came running. I stood there half in
> and half out of my towel and gibbered inarticulately and pointed at that
> EIGHT LEGGED FREAK. She just said something like--I think it was--'Oh,
> nursery spider.' So she went and got the industrial vacuum cleaner and
> sucked it right up with a loud THUP!!
>

Iggy here:

Because I live in an apartment, especially in the south, we get bugs of all
sorts in our apartment to varying degrees depending on both the season and
whether or not someone is moving in or out of one of the other apartments in
the building.  The bugs attract spiders as well, of course.

Every week or two, I simply attack the hose to our vacuum cleaner, and co
through the house getting all the bugs and spiders I see.  (I've even,
amazingly enough. learned how to use the thing to dispose of flies.  I wait
until they're against the kitchen window and get them then.  The glass and
light tend to confuse the flies enough that you can get them with the vacuum
before they get away.  It takes some patience, but it can be done.  *grin*)


Iggy McSnurd