Re: OT: Spiders

From: Gmbeasle@aol.com

In a message dated 10/01/1999 12:14:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
erni@midwest.net writes:

> 
>  We in the Midwest have some nasty little anti-social critters called Brown
>  Recluse Spiders.  Their bite is highly poisonous if you happen to invade
>  their hidey holes while cleaning or searching through areas that are seldom
>  disturbed. 

It also wastes away the flesh I think.   We have them here in the east too.

> We also
>  have harmless (?) field spiders that grow huge and weave humongous webs and
>  glare at me through beady little eyes.  

I've been bitten by a big field spider, and it took a long time to heal.  At 
least I think it was a field spider - it fell out of a cedar tree down my 
back when I was mowing the lawn.  It bit me when I went to get the itchy bits 
of cedar out of my pants and inadvertently got the spider trapped under my 
watch band.

So almost any spider can bite and the bites are painful.  I didn't think that 
the harvesters had a big enough mouth to actually bite anyone though.

RosalieAnn in southern Maryland (daughter of Rosalie Figge)

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