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I think I just caught a brown recluse - now what?
MrOletta
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So I was sitting on the jon and noticed a spider coming down about 12 inches away from me from our bathroom vent. It hung out around my face for a while then proceeded to drift down to the floor then back up for a few minutes.
I slowly crept away and brought a glass jar (since I've read they cannot climb glass) and proceeded to have an epic battle of life or death with it until emerging victorious.
It's now sitting in a glass jar with a plastic wrap lid secured tightly with speed holes for oxygen.
The jar is sitting in a bowl of water, which is sitting in a booby trapped safe.
Is there anything I should do, or should I just put it out of its misery?
I slowly crept away and brought a glass jar (since I've read they cannot climb glass) and proceeded to have an epic battle of life or death with it until emerging victorious.
It's now sitting in a glass jar with a plastic wrap lid secured tightly with speed holes for oxygen.
The jar is sitting in a bowl of water, which is sitting in a booby trapped safe.
Is there anything I should do, or should I just put it out of its misery?
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It is very hard for anyone but an arachnologist to identity a spider by just looking at it, there are so many spiders that look so alike. The Brown Recluse in particular is always cited when a spider is unknown, people always cry Brown Recluse.
Do you have any young children/elderly at home? It's unlikely even if it is a recluse that it will cause any harm. If your intention is not to kill it, don't put it outside. As you found it inside, it is likely a house spider, and will die if put outside. They are adapted to surviving off of the heat and insects the house provides.
I would just let it go in a room other than the one you're in. Spiders are a blessing, not a pest.
Edit: I highly suggest reading a few things on this website.
No I'm not 100% positive it is as it seems the most likely method of identification is the eye pattern which I can't see (unfortunately).
It's a shame I left my camera at work or I'd snap some photos.
FINISH HIM
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Myth: You can identify "brown recluse" spiders by a violin shape.
I mean if it was a tiny ass generic spider and you want to let it go, fine, but if this thing might cause a big gaping, decaying hole in your body FUCKING KILL IT WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU THERE IS NO DECISION TO BE MADE, YOU FOOL.
As someone who generally doesn't like bugs (more because they startle me with their small size and typically unpredictable movements, not because of any great fear), I usually kill bugs found in the house. Since you've gone through all of this trouble, you might as well let it go outside, though.
Maybe in the neighbor's yard.
their habitat range does cover most of texas, although recluses are not agressive (they're named that for a reason) and humans being bit is pretty rare. keep in mind: it came down, chilled there looking at you for a while, went further down and then went back up.
personally, i would compromise between the buddhist catch-and-release ethos and the KILL THE FUCK OUT OF IT people by letting it go outside. if it makes it back in the house, it was meant to be.
These are the f**kers I usually have to deal with.
either kill it, and it dies
or put it outside, where it will probably die because spiders that come into houses don't do well outside
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Or just flush the fucking thing and get on with your life.
Why are you hesitating?!
Terminate the bastard!
Because when other bugs bite you, your leg doesn't turn black and fall off.
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Seconded.
Shrieking, hysterical, inexplicable psychological terror.
Some people just don't dig on spiders. Rational or not, spiders just scare the willies out of some people.
OP, if you're really petrified of it, just kill it. It's not going to significantly impact your life if it dies, your house wont suddenly be overrun by other insects no longer held in check by its presence. If you can stomach knowing it's still in your house, let it go in your basement or attic, or outside near your foundation somewhere. It will find its way back into your walls.
i have a rule. if i see a spider off in a corner or just outside i leave it alone. if i see one in my room, bitch gotta go.
bathroom is even worse. that place is sacred. any bug that i see in my bathroom is met with a counterstrike that makes hiroshima look like a game of duck duck goose
I personally don't care for them either. I might be inclined to let a spider live if it's just hanging out in a corner minding it's own business, but if it's crawling around on my furniture, I'm probably gonna drop the hammer on it.
My wife, however, is bothered by them so much that even seeing them on TV makes her heart race and she has to turn away. So most spiders in our house briefly regret being in our house before feeling nothing about anything ever again.
But that's just me.
Which is good news for you. I'd hate to think I lived in a house where a brown recluse might fall into my lap when I'm pooping.
http://scienceblogs.com/zooillogix/Social%20Cob%20Web%20Spiders.jpg
Warning: THE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES beyond that link, and it's not even the worst spider tree picture I've seen, just the worst one on the first page of a google image search.
Southern states apparently get some pretty epic spider trees. It's freaky enough up here in Michigan when the mosquitoes are bad, enough will congregate in the area to cover a very large tree, hedge row, sometimes an entire yard. I had a communal web in my back yard this year that stretched from my shed over into the neighbor's yard 30 feet away. I bought a new goddamn lawnmower because of that thing rather than climb through the giant web and get my nice one out of the shed.
what kind of terrible place do you live in/ in what condition do you keep your house?
they are allowed outside my bedroom because they stop mosquitoes and i have some kind of ultra delicious blood because mosquitoes go to me like a compass needle to magnetic north. once the mosquito is in my room there would have to be a web literally over the top of me to stop me from being bitten. i do have a lot of spiders chillin outside my window though. they don't bug me (and have probably stopped a million mosquitoes at this point) so they stay. i didn't mind too much about them hiding in my room until i was bitten 16 times in one night by them... nothing says "kick us out" like painful, swollen, throbbing bites all over your back and arms... no sir
golded for truth. This is the fear of all.
But dear lord I love this thread so much.
I'm one of those "irrational fear" people. I don't leave windows and doors open in the Summer because they can get in... and when I DO open a window, it's in my PC room where I can constantly spray it with Raid and keep an eye on it.
Like clockwork, every night after 8:30, there are two huge motherfuckers sitting on my windows screen. Also, my patio is lined with webs (which is probably good, like a shield around my patio door... 'cept for shit that... uhm, flies over them), which are also occupied by huge motherfuckers.
Outside - Fine. Inside - I freak out until I find it and coax it away. Can't touch or look at them for too long.
Recently I looked at the center of my chest because it was a bit red. I scratched it and it started bleeding from what looked like 5-6 very tiny spots around the red area. So... yeah. I'm the fucking Spiderman.
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You sir, have just ruined my day.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?