Posted: 6/12/2013 9:24:07 AM EDT
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Hi All,
I have 2 pics that I took about 2 years ago of a spider that I think is a Brown Recluse. I have been matching photos online and this seems to be the best match. The problem is that these pics wee taken in Washington DC, well North of their habitat. All of the experts and "bug people" have told me that they do not exist anywhere East of Kentucky/ Tennessee. Can anyone ID it to be something else? Otherwise WTF?  " />
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Need a better picture of its back to see if it has the violin pattern of a recluse... This, but the photos are two years old, if you read the OP. Proportions and shapes look right, but the (lost) mark would be diagnostic. I hope you killed it. My daughter, in KS, is going to have her house sprayed, because they keep finding the damned things. |
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Pretty sure that's a recluse.
I can see the fiddle in the second pic Recluses in DC |
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We have a LOT of them down where I live in Texas.....
Nasty little fuckers. I had a friend bitten by one. He didn't know what it was that bit him... went to the hospital and ended up with skin grafts etc. etc.... Looks like somebody took an icecream scoup and dug out part of his calf now. |
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Southern house spider! Boom! What do I win? Their range ends around the DC area ETA: Range picture I wouldn't bet on that ID, nor would I let it bite me to find out if it is correct. |
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Quoted: I see the violin when I play with the Contrast/Brightness. Kill it with nuclear fire. Southern House Spiders have a fiddle, too. And they're harmless and rather docile. Recluses have three pairs of eyes in a triangle pattern, which is the defining characteristic of the genus Loxosceles. |
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I see the violin when I play with the Contrast/Brightness. Kill it with nuclear fire. Southern House Spiders have a fiddle, too. And they're harmless and rather docile. Recluses have three pairs of eyes in a triangle pattern, which is the defining characteristic of the genus Loxosceles. southern looks more like a banjo to me |
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someone gave you some bad info. We have them in Virginia. This. Got bitten by one 3 years ago. No necrosis, just a baseball sized black knot on my arm and a month of daily IV antibiotics. All better in about 5 weeks. Bite occurred in south eastern Prince William county. |
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someone gave you some bad info. We have them in Virginia. This. Got bitten by one 3 years ago. No necrosis, just a baseball sized black knot on my arm and a month of daily IV antibiotics. All better in about 5 weeks. Bite occurred in south eastern Prince William county. if no necrosis probably a "hobo" spider... bite is very similar and they are way more agresive than a recluse... in face most "recluse" (they are reclusive hence the name) spider bites are actually hobo spider bites.. I got bitten by a black widow last Nov. now that sucked... |
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Quoted: Southern house spider! Boom! What do I win? Their range ends around the DC area ETA: Range picture Why did they skip New Mexico? |
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I walked into my bedroom Monday night and a brown recluse ran out from under bed towards my dresser. You are posting this from a Hotel room as you did burn your house down right? My buddy put spider traps out around his older (Nashville) house a couple weeks ago. Netted himself at least 150 of the fuckers. He is going to get the house sprayed. |
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I walked into my bedroom Monday night and a brown recluse ran out from under bed towards my dresser. You are posting this from a Hotel room as you did burn your house down right? My buddy put spider traps out around his older (Nashville) house a couple weeks ago. Netted himself at least 150 of the fuckers. He is going to get the house sprayed. 150? I would spray it myself with gasoline. |
