B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for November 05, 2010

Not a very desirable tattoo!

(Good Friday Morning, Pamlicorat, Gweedo & All BCers!)

Yes. Leave before the lady has a snack.

Here in GA we have a new subspecies of spider. The brown widow. And they are everywhere.

Is that the same fella that did “Tie Me Kangaroo Down”?

He likes ‘em big, too

Good Morning, Fellow Cave Dwelleres

No. Rolf Harris did “Tie me Kangaroo Down, Sport.” Slim Newton did the Redback song.

I think she’s going to enjoy you too - for lunch.

What’s he got against ScarJo?

When is the memorial service.

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The ant is heading off to visit that new praying mantis couple that just moved in.

Friend of mine developed a non-healing wound on her ankle that kept growing and got necrotic (as they say in the trade). She was on crutches or in a wheelchair for months. Lab results showed no infection, and no antibiotics had any effect. Someone suggested it may have been a brown recluse bite but a doctor dismissed that, saying they haven’t gotten as far north as PA. But after she found a doctor who had already treated three BR victims, she finally got proper treatment and is fully recovered. Look out for them little things!!

Ladyfinger, there’s a kind of spider known as the brown widow too. Mostly harmless compared to the black widow, from what I’ve read. Smaller and less aggressive.

They liked to colonize little-used cupboards in an old house I used to live in, in California.

I did got bitten once by a yellow house spider, which was painful and gave me a welt but that’s as far as it went. Years later I learned they’re supposed to give necrotizing bites too. I’m glad that spider couldn’t read.

Oh my… trouble in paradise already!

Good TGIF to all BC’ers!!!

Hey, Dogsniff. Good to see you again.

…”Hello, my name is 80’shairnomore and I am a recovering arachnophobic.” Eek! Spider, spider!!! Smash it!!!!!!

Party like there’s no tomorrow, spider!

Good morning, BCers!

pschearer - the doctor was definitely out to lunch - we occasionally get brown recluses up in Canada.

Party like there’s no tomorrow… because their ain’t!

ladyfingers86, No mistake. They are the ‘Black Widow’ species, but they are brown. Same type webs (chaotic cobwebs) and body markings. The ones we have here are just as large as regular widows. I don’t know about how venomous they are, but they have moved in (from God knows where) and taken over.

thats a vision i DON’T want to see! thanks thebird55! lol

Learning a lot here today. Beginnning to itch all over…

Thanks for the information about the brown widow. That is definitely going to get filed in my insatiable trivia store.

Here in Missouri we have plenty of the recluse spiders, the greatest danger of which is the reclusive habit. It’s usually not the ones you see that will bite you but the ones hidden in nooks and crannies that you incautiously put your hand into. Further info: the damage resulting from a bite is often the result of infection (sometimes including MRSA) more than from the venom itself.

skin crawling upon viewing photo… IIIIICCCCKKKKK!

So that’s what Nancy Pelosi is up to these days.

I got ‘scratched’ by the fang of a brown recluse (doctor said it would have been worse if I had a full bite). Had gotten back from visiting the inlaws who lived on the Colorado River, very rustic. Anyway, took my son to see Arachnophobia and the little itch I had had on my waist started hurting worse and by the time we got home from that I had a very painful bump. Saw Dr. next day (not Dr. Toon) who prescribed steroids and told me to keep it clean, smeared in antibiotic jell and covered. Long tale short, I ended up with a crater, about 2”x 1.5” oval, about 1.5” deep at worst point. The skin had become grayish, and at a bandage change I heard a glorping sound as I removed the gause and the chunk of rotted skin came out. Inside was nice and pink and didn’t hurt, So I kept applying jell, keeping it covered, and made sure it healed from bottom up.

And then there are the bedbug that ate New York.

@Eldo, do you apply the sugar to the bite, or eat it? I’ve never heard of this remedy before. Does it work on all spider bites or, for that matter, insect bites and stings? Or, if you were pulling our leg, you got me! :-)

I’m going to have night mares tonight! Thanks everyone, and especially Mastroianni and Hart! ;-)

And I now realize that the two non-healing bumps on my ankles were spider bites. I had returned from Africa, so I don’t know what kind. But they took two months to heal with treatment.

Spider,spider on the wall Ain’t you got no sence at all? Don’t you know that wall was freshly plastered? Get off there, you dirty bug!