Re: Fw: black widows & copperhead snakes (in great number in NCthis season)

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One thing I meant to add to this discussion and kept forgetting to do...well 
worth knowing about. They make inexpensive glue traps to be placed in 
closets and especially underneath beds. The best ones have sides that fold 
up, so that the whole thing is shaped something like a pyrimid with two open 
ends. Spiders crawl into it and don't crawl out.
  I stick these under the beds and forget about them for six months or so, 
then toss them out and replace them with new ones. They are always loaded 
with spiders (and a few other assorted small bugs) even if we never see any 
spiders in our bedroom.
  Five-six years ago my wife got bitten on the back of her hand while she 
was sleeping by (what we assume was) a brown recluse spider. The bite looked 
like a small pimple, but then soon popped and bled, and then got way, way 
worse. For many weeks her hand was a sight, but luckily for her, there was 
no permenant damage. many people are less lucky.
I emptied out the entire room, tossed the rug, painted the walls, and then 
started using these little glue traps. I totally recommend them. Stick a 
couple in the garage, too.
Here's a link to a place that sells a version of these...a dozen for ten 
bucks. http://www.cleanertoday.com/Spider-Traps-12pk-p/trap-spider-cm12.htm

Tom

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@bellsouth.net>
To: "Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum" 
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Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [GWL] Fw: black widows & copperhead snakes (in great number in 
NCthis season)

> On 6/27/2012 12:20 PM, Tom wrote:
>
>> My understanding about the deaths from copperhead bites is this: All of 
>> them
>> were people who had already been bitten before, and had (no doubt, 
>> unknown
>> to them) developed a potent allergy to copperhead venom. When they were
>> bitten a second time, they went into allergenic anaphylactic shock and 
>> died.
>
> Thanks for this new-to-me information. I will add this to the unverified
> fact that antivenin is used only once in a person's lifetime.
>
> I heard from a local that one or more Canebrake Rattlesnakes have
> been spotted in the Piedmont region of NC. Most people have assumed that
> this area was free of rattlesnakes.
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