[pct-l] off-topic: brown recluse spiders

[scrookham at hotmail.com (Sean Crookham)]

Brown Recluse Spiders are a smallish spider, usually about 1 cm in length. 
Overall length with legs is perhaps 1 inch long. The violen shape appears on 
the cephalothorax which is the combined head/thorax area of the spider and 
not the underbelly or abdomen.

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/images/2061_2.jpg

Sean Crookham


>From: "Joanne Lennox" <goforth@cio.net>
>Reply-To: goforth@cio.net
>To: "yogi yogi" <yogilists@hotmail.com>, <pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
>Subject: Re: [pct-l] off-topic:  brown recluse spiders
>Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 00:01:16 -0700
>
>Depends on where you live, but even in warmer climes , which have this
>spider, even where they are frequent inside buildings, people are rarely
>bitten.  As I remember, they have a characteristic marking on their
>underbelly (violin?).  Size means nothing.  They really are not aggressive,
>but their bite can be damaging.
>
>I would be more concerned about your apartment being sprayed that I would
>the spider. Chances are the spider just came in on a plant or something
>brought into the house.  Check your screens, and under and behind couches,
>furniture to see if there is a pattern of entry, etc,  Close the entrance
>pathway, and check behind things to see that there are no more, and you
>should be alright.
>
>Joanne
>
>
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